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New wearable tech from Western may hold big benefits for people with Parkinson’s
Credit: Paul Mayne A new prototype for wearable tremor suppression gloves has a team of Western University researchers believing real...
Early psychosis programs significantly reduce patient mortality, study finds
Credit: The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) LONDON, ON - In a new study, researchers at Lawson Health Research...
New method identifies splicing biomarkers for liver cancer
Credit: Krainer Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Because liver cancer is particularly diverse, genetically, and prone to relapse,...
Student-led depression awareness program boosts teens’ understanding and help-seeking
Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, MI - High school students can make a major impact on their schoolmates' understanding...
Palmer amaranth resistance research earns first place finish for plant sciences student
Credit: Ginger Rowsey JACKSON, Tenn. - Drake Copeland, a graduate student studying at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture,...
St. Michael’s Hospital cardiology team reports a world first
Credit: St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, March 2, 2018--Interventional cardiologist Dr. Neil Fam of St. Michael's Hospital has performed a world-first...
JHU scientists discover how extremophiles flourish in stressful environments
Thousands of molecules of ribonucleic acid make salt-loving microbes known as "extremophiles" highly resistant to the phenomenon oxidative stress -...
Capturing the balance of nature
Credit: Kyoto University / Reiji Masuda Kyoto, Japan -- In a study spanning twelve years, researchers from Kyoto University, and...
2018 Woman in Science Award goes to UIC women’s mental health expert
Credit: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin Dr. Pauline Maki, professor of psychology and psychiatry in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of...
Multiphoton Microscopy and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging
Credit: De Gruyter This monograph focuses on modern femtosecond laser microscopes for two photon imaging and nanoprocessing, on laser tweezers...
Study shows improving pediatric asthma care is possible
Credit: Connecticut Children's Pediatric asthma is the most common chronic childhood condition and a leading cause of pediatric hospital admissions....
Vertical measurements of air pollutants in urban Beijing
Credit: The photo on the left was taken by SUN Yele; The photo on the right was taken by the...
Virus-like particle could lead to new cancer vaccine
Credit: Michigan State University Michigan State University scientists are engineering a virus-like particle, known as Qβ, that will generate anti-cancer...
Spring is springing earlier in polar regions than across the rest of earth
Credit: Eric Post/UC Davis Spring is arriving earlier, but how much earlier? The answer depends where on Earth you find...
How the brain makes predictions
Credit: Uwe Dettmar FRANKFURT. Goethe University Frankfurt can boast another EU-funded research project: With the appointment of Yee Lee Shing...
Previously unknown ‘supercolony’ of Adélie penguins discovered in Antarctica
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) In a paper released on March 2nd in the journal Scientific Reports, the scientists announced the...
Thawing permafrost causing the ‘browning’ of northern lakes
As ice the melts, the organic carbon found in permafrost is being released once again after ages of confinement in...
Payments to protect carbon stored in forests must increase to defend against rubber
Credit: University of East Anglia Payments to protect carbon stored in forests must increase to defend against rubber plantations Efforts...
Simplifying samples
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis Imagine a physician in a rural or remote area who needs to send a...
Researchers find transferable antibiotic resistance gene in pathogen of developing nations
Washington, DC - March 2, 2018 - A team of investigators has found that the mcr-1 drug resistance gene, which...
