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EPSRC announces £138 million investment in research-business partnerships
(Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Two major investments in research partnerships that will strengthen the links between the UK's...
New report presents national strategy to reduce opioid epidemic
WASHINGTON - Years of sustained and coordinated efforts will be required to contain and reverse the harmful societal effects of...
Study links maternal obesity during pregnancy to behavioral problems in boys
Ann Arbor, MI, July 13, 2017 - Maternal obesity and child neurodevelopmental problems have both increased in the U.S. and...
Testing a soft artificial heart
Credit: ETH Zurich It looks like a real heart. And this is the goal of the first entirely soft artificial...
Study by UTA professor shows many parents in the dark about concussions
Despite the large volume of information about sports related concussions on the Internet, many parents and guardians of young athletes...
Cancer cells force normal cells to mimic viruses to help tumors spread, resist treatment
PHILADELPHIA - In a study that could explain why some breast cancers are more aggressive than others, researchers say they...
Top international award for UNSW Sydney climate scientist
Credit: UNSW The prestigious Tinker-Muse Prize for Science and Policy in Antarctica for 2017 has been awarded to (University of...
Omics technologies for analysis of precious rare biosamples
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 13, 2017 -- Omics technologies such as proteomics have far-reaching...
Why Japan’s coastal zones might be disappearing due to climate change
As G20 Summit 2017 drew to a close, the issue of climate change divided the world. As it happened, 19...
Babies with hearing loss form better vocabulary with early intervention
Credit: Christine Yoshinaga-Itano Children with hearing loss who are diagnosed by 3 months of age and receive interventions by 6...
Diet rich in tomatoes cuts skin cancer in half in mice
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Daily tomato consumption appeared to cut the development of skin cancer tumors by half in a mouse...
Singapore scientists pave way for better juvenile arthritis diagnosis & treatment outcome prediction
Singapore, 14 July 2017 - A team of scientists and doctors from the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC) has...
Genetically enhanced, cord-blood derived immune cells strike B-cell cancers
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON - Immune cells with a general knack for recognizing and killing many types of...
New data network for Huntington’s disease research
Huntington's disease is an hereditary disorder of the nervous system caused by a faulty gene on chromosome four. The faulty...
Chillier winters, smaller beaks
Credit: Charles Davies; Flickr Although Charles Darwin lived and worked in the 19th century, modern evolutionary biologists are far from...
Using a microRNA to shift the makeup of glioblastoma subtypes
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), an extremely aggressive brain cancer, is a very complex disease. It is characterized by a fast-growing tumor...
Internists reaffirm ‘strongest opposition possible’ to revised BRCA
Washington (July 13, 2017)--On behalf of the American College of Physicians (ACP), today ACP wrote Senate leaders to reaffirm our...
Study reveals interplay of an African bat, a parasite and a virus
Credit: Tony Goldberg, UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- If there is anything scientists are certain of when it comes to bats...
Researchers overcome suppression of immune response against bacterial pathogens
Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin were able to positively influence the immune response in severe viral and bacterial co-infection....
New imaging technique able to watch molecular dynamics of neurodegenerative diseases
Credit: Sophie Brasselet, Institut Fresnel, CNRS, Aix Marseille Université WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a fast and practical molecular-scale imaging...
