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Heart defects in infant may predict heart problems in birth mother later in life
DALLAS, April 2, 2018 -- Women who give birth to infants with congenital heart defects may have an increased risk...
New compound helps activate cancer-fighting T cells
Credit: Jose Gascon/UConn Invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells are powerful weapons our body's immune systems count on to fight...
Extinct monitor lizard had four eyes, fossil evidence shows
Credit: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Researchers reporting in Current Biology on April 2 have evidence that an extinct...
Experts define global criteria for hospital programs to tackle antimicrobial resistance
Basel, Switzerland, 03 April 2018 - Infection specialists at hospitals are introducing so-called antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programmes to use antimicrobial...
In zebrafish, the cholera bacterium sets off a surprising flush
Credit: Image courtesy of Raghuveer Parthasarathy EUGENE, Ore. -- April 3, 2018 -- Researchers experimenting with live zebrafish witnessed a...
Higher blood pressure before pregnancy may increase miscarriage risk
DALLAS, April 2, 2018 - Elevated blood pressure before becoming pregnant and early in pregnancy may increase the risk of...
Sandcastles and surprising origins of basic cellular functions
Boston, MA - Cells comprising a tissue can pack into disorderly geometries much as do grains of sand in a...
Researchers find new trigger for onset of colon cancer, which may lead to better therapies
LEBANON, NH - Colon cancer is the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths. The APC protein has long been...
Flood risk denial in US coastal communities
Rising sea levels have worsened the destruction that routine tidal flooding causes in the nation's coastal communities. On the U.S....
Do men outnumber women in academic neurology programs?
Bottom Line: Men outnumbered women at all faculty levels in top-ranked academic neurology programs, findings that are consistent with previous...
Eating more protein may not benefit older men
Regardless of whether an adult is young or old, male or female, their recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for protein, set...
Protein analysis enables precise drug targeting
Credit: Elena Khavina/MIPT Press Office Researchers from MIPT and several U.S. and Chinese universities have solved the structure of one...
Associations between acid-suppressing medications, antibiotics in infancy and later allergic disease
Bottom Line: The use of acid-suppressing medications or antibiotics in the first 6 months of infancy was associated with an...
Online physician reviews don’t reflect responses in patient satisfaction surveys
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Physicians who receive negative reviews online do not receive similar responses in rigorous patient satisfaction surveys, according...
400-year-old documents reveal evidence of Japanese opium production and winemaking
Credit: Prof. Tsuguharu Inaba Research from the Eisei Bunko Research Center of Kumamoto University reveals that Tadatoshi Hosokawa, a 17th...
Studies examine relationship between legal cannabis use, opioid prescriptions
Bottom Line: Two studies examine the relationship between legal cannabis use and opioid prescriptions. One study examines state implementation of...
Novel PET imaging agent could help guide therapy for brain diseases
Credit: SD Krämer et al., ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland RESTON, Va - Researchers have developed a new imaging agent that...
Unraveling the immunopathogenesis of Johne’s disease
Credit: National Agriculture and Food Research Organization A research team has unraveled the immunopathogenesis of Johne's disease, a chronic bovine...
New algorithm enables data integration at single-cell resolution
A team of computational biologists has developed an algorithm that can 'align' multiple sequencing datasets with single-cell resolution. The new...
Combination immunotherapy improves survival in mouse models of mesothelioma
Combined treatment with two cancer immunotherapy drugs - one a novel immune modulator and one that focuses and activates the...
