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Study: Restaurants not good at explaining risks of undercooked meat to customers
Front-line staff, such as servers in restaurants, are often trusted with providing customers with food safety information regarding their meals....
Proposed biosimilar drug shows potential as breast cancer treatment
Among women with metastatic breast cancer, treatment with a drug that is biosimilar to the breast cancer drug trastuzumab resulted...
Findings show significant progress against HIV epidemic in Africa; 90-90-90 goals in reach
December 1, 2016 -- NEW YORK -- National surveys in Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia reveal exceptional progress against HIV, with...
Test for early diagnosis of life-threatening preemie disease advances
New Orleans, LA - The National Science Foundation (NSF) has chosen an LSU Health New Orleans team that developed a...
A&A special issue: GREGOR first results
Credit: Figure from Joshi et al. (2016, A&A, 596, A8) This special issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics contains a series...
Use your words: Written prisoner interactions predict whether they’ll clean up their acts
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The evolution of how prisoners in substance-abuse programs communicate is a good indicator of whether they'll return...
Can DXA be used to predict fracture risk in people with diabetes?
Credit: © International Osteoporosis Foundation Increased risk of fracture has been shown to be one of the complications arising from...
With promising results from emerging therapies, Penn research yields hope for amyloidosis
PHILADELPHIA - Two new treatments are showing promise and overall survival is on the rise for AL amyloidosis, according to...
Feathered fathers and mothers have diverse parenting arrangements
Credit: Nature MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- Birds of a feather flock together but they schedule parenting duties differently, according to a...
NASA sees ‘nada’ strength left in Tropical Cyclone Nada
Credit: Credits: NASA JPL/Ed Olsen NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Tropical Cyclone Nada in the Northern Indian Ocean and infrared...
Global Internet of Things consortium establishes investment vehicle at Tel Aviv University
The global consortium Israel IoT Innovations-i3 Equity Partners (i3) has established an investment vehicle at Tel Aviv University with the...
NYU Tandon’s Elza Erkip garners prestigious engineering award
BROOKLYN, New York - Elza Erkip, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering,...
Artificial intelligence toolkit spots new child sexual abuse media online
Amsterdam, December 1, 2016 - New artificial intelligence software designed to spot new child sexual abuse media online could help...
Four weeks to prepare cancer patients for surgery
Just four weeks of prehabilitation may be enough to help some cancer patients get in shape for surgery. That's according...
NEOMED researchers identify link between brain and bone in Alzheimer’s disease
ROOTSTOWN, OH--Researchers at NEOMED have just identified a major connection between areas of the brainstem - the ancient area that...
Experts argue it’s time to stop using bite marks in forensics
Researchers are increasingly skeptical about the validity of bite-mark identification as trial evidence. A new paper in Journal of Law...
IUPUI chemists develop new technique that could speed drug development
Credit: Whitney Walker, School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS -- Synthesizing useful new compounds is what pharmaceutical...
New findings boost promise of molybdenum sulfide for hydrogen catalysis
Researchers from North Carolina State University, Duke University and Brookhaven National Laboratory have found that molybdenum sulfide (MoS2) holds more...
Tangled threads weave through cosmic oddity
Credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble, A. Fabian New observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the intricate structure of the...
Northern Ohio institutions become laboratories for future energy usage
Credit: Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University, NASA Glenn Research Center and the University of Toledo will serve...
