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Before a cure, a crusade to stop lung cancer from spreading
Credit: University of Notre Dame/Matt Cashore The American Cancer Society has reported that lung cancer, which kills more Americans than...
Penn State signs new Master Research contract with Lockheed Martin
Penn State and Lockheed Martin have signed a Master Research contract, establishing an agreement that includes research collaboration, an enhanced...
Exclusive: Biotechnology leaders surveyed about impact of Trump presidency
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. New Rochelle, Nov 11, 2016--The day following the election of Donald J. Trump as President,...
Pneumonia rates linked to hospital ventilators have not dropped
Credit: UConn Health Contrary to data published by the Centers for Disease Control, ventilator-associated pneumonia rates in hospital intensive care...
Keeping our balance — a tale of two systems
The transition from being sea creatures to living on land, even if it happened over 300 million years ago, seems...
Pneumonitis from ingesting fuel: Doctors treating refugees notice severe illness
People fleeing across the Mediterranean by boat face many dangers. In a paper now published in the renowned medical journal...
Traumatic stress changes brains of boys, girls differently, Stanford study finds
Traumatic stress affects the brains of adolescent boys and girls differently, according to a new brain-scanning study from the Stanford...
Ventilator-associated pneumonia rates remain stable, substantial
In a study published online by JAMA, Mark L. Metersky, M.D., of the UConn School of Medicine, Farmington, and colleagues...
New discovery paves way for pancreatic cancer treatment
Credit: University of Notre Dame/Matt Cashore Pancreatic cancer, the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths, is projected to be the...
Fun, comfort with exercise helps young people with conditions like autism and ADHD remain active
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Nov. 11, 2016) - The best way to help young people with neurodevelopmental disorders like...
Anesthesia changes neuronal choreography
Establishing how the brain produces consciousness is one of the most challenging research questions in the field of neuroscience. In...
Genomic tools to combat the spread of the invasive Asian longhorned beetle
Credit: David Lance The Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) lists more than 100 invasive species already posing threats...
Plants modulate accumulation of metabolites at organ level
Credit: Danny Kessler / Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in...
Protozoan parasite increases risk of colitis, study reveals
Credit: Escalante et al., 2016 Researchers from the University of Toronto have discovered that mice infected with the common gut...
Smartphone app for early autism detection being developed by UB undergrad
Credit: Credit: Douglas Levere. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- What if someone invented a smartphone app that could help detect autism spectrum...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging to predict the salt content of Iberian ham
Credit: UEx Researchers from the Meat and Meat Products Research Institute (Instituto de Investigación de Carne y Productos Cárnicos -...
New findings about the honey bee infecting deformed wing virus
Credit: Kerstin Seitz/Vetmeduni Vienna The honey bee Apis mellifera plays an important role for the pollination of fruit and vegetable...
Using pectin to advance neuron-like electronic systems
WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 11, 2016 -- Most of us know pectin as a key ingredient for making delicious jellies and...
Antibody drug conjugates have shown clinical efficacy with acceptable toxicity
Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs) have shown a clearly documented efficacy and acceptable toxicity and can be easily implemented in oncology...
Molecular structure in Zika virus leads to potentially disease-causing RNAs
AURORA, Colo. (Nov. 10, 2016) - - Researchers, led by scientists at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, have...
