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Older adults fitted with cochlear implants exhibit poor brain function
Older adults fitted with a cochlear implant to compensate for severe hearing loss have significantly poorer cognitive function than their...
Study first to report sexual behavior norms for US adults with dementia living at home
The majority of partnered, home-dwelling people in the U.S. with dementia are sexually active, according to a University of Chicago...
Scientific institutions continue to lag behind the #TimesUp movement
Scientific and medical institutions must fundamentally reconsider how they address sexual harassment in the workplace, three national leaders in gender...
Heart attack: Substitute muscle thanks to stem cells
Myocardial infarction - commonly known as a heart attack - is still one of the main causes of death. According...
Low-cost monitor uses AI to diagnose heart problems
A Cambridge start-up has developed a low-cost next-generation wearable heart and cardiovascular function monitor which uses AI to diagnose heart...
Joan A. Steitz receives 2018 Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science
Credit: Brian Ach/AP Images for HHMI The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced today that Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)...
Beetle adapts chemical mimicry to parasitize different bee species
Credit: Photo by Leslie Saul-Gershenz) A beetle that tricks bees into carrying it into their nests where it can live...
Scientists identified enzyme in milk production as target for novel breast cancer drugs
Credit: VCU Massey Cancer Center VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers have identified a protein involved in milk production that stimulates...
Coral bleaching increases disease risk in threatened species
Credit: Conor Goulding/Mote Marine Laboratory Bleaching events caused by rising water temperatures could increase mortality among a coral species already...
Natural mechanism could lower emissions from tropical peatlands
Credit: Duke Univ. DURHAM, N.C. -- Scientists have long feared that as Earth warms, tropical peatlands -- which store up...
Folding poisons
Credit: Source: Klaus Aktories Treating bacterial infections with antibiotics often kills intestinal flora, leading to diarrhoea and inflammation of the...
Understanding 6th-century barbarian social organization & migration through paleogenomics
Credit: Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la Città Metropolitana di Torino Applying a comprehensive analysis of genetic, historical,...
UBC breakthrough opens door to $100 ultrasound machine
Credit: University of British Columbia Engineers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new ultrasound transducer, or probe,...
Barriers and opportunities in renewable biofuels production
Credit: Martina Butorac/Chalmers University of Technology Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable...
Engrafted stem cell-derived lung organoids that model human lung development
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 10, 2018-Researchers have now grown lung organoids from human embryonic...
Research devises protocol for measuring distances within biomolecules
Credit: Clemson University Relations CLEMSON, South Carolina Â-- Architects cannot build a house without the proper dimensions of the foundation....
Carbon nanodots do an ultrafine job with in vitro lung tissue
Credit: Estelle Durantie and Hana Barosova WASHINGTON, D.C., September 11, 2018 -- Epidemiological studies have established a strong correlation between...
Prenatal exposure to cannabis impacts sociability of male offspring only
Taking cannabinoids during pregnancy can cause behavioural and neuronal deficits in adult male offspring, while females remain unaffected, says new...
Pain response in babies’ brains controlled in ‘similar way to adults’
Researchers from the Department of Paediatrics and Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging at the University of Oxford, UK, have identified...
Montana State study gauges health of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Credit: Linda Phillips BOZEMAN -- A Montana State University study of Yellowstone National Park and the surrounding area shows that...
