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DxNA LLC announces 510(K) submission of GeneSTAT analyzer and GeneSTAT coccidioides assay
St. George, Utah -- July 10, 2017 -- DxNA LLC, a molecular diagnostics company, today announced the 510(k) submission to...
Ten new awards from the National Science Foundation
Credit: Leonid Moroz Ten new awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) totaling $14 million will enable biologists to develop...
Researchers hope new biomarkers will lead to sports pitch-side test for brain injury
Researchers at the University of Birmingham have identified inflammatory biomarkers which indicate whether the brain has suffered injury. The team,...
Lutein and zeaxanthin isomers benefits during high screen exposure
Morristown, N.J., July 10, 2017 - An exciting new peer reviewed publication based on ongoing research on macular carotenoids from...
Survey reveals widespread bias in astronomy and planetary science
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- In an online survey about their workplace experiences, 88 percent of...
Malaria drug protects fetal mice from Zika virus, NIH-funded study finds
Hydroxychloroquine, a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat malaria and certain autoimmune diseases in pregnant women,...
Training/support have ongoing impact on delivery of alcohol intervention
In primary care settings, training and support of clinicians has a lasting effect on the proportion of adult patients given...
Who should treat patients with opioid use disorder?
In a Point/Counterpoint, two doctors debate whether or not family physicians should provide medication-assisted treatment to their patients with opioid...
Disruptive technology for the treatment of hemophilia
An international team of hematologists including Guy Young, MD, of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, has found that in patients with...
Oil spill impacts may perturb entire food webs
Oil spills not only have a direct impact on species and habitats, but may also set off a cascade of...
Dr. John Buster inducted into ACOG Hall of Fame
Credit: Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island John E. Buster, MD, of Providence, a reproductive endocrinologist with Women &...
Dissolvable device could make closing surgical incisions a cinch
Like many surgeons, Dr. Jason Spector is often faced with the challenge of securely closing the abdominal wall without injuring...
New technology to manipulate cells could help treat Parkinson’s, arthritis, other diseases
Credit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. --- A groundbreaking advancement in materials from Northwestern University could potentially help patients requiring stem...
Doctor cautions against denial of the opioid epidemic
When a family physician moved to a new rural community, she was unprepared for the constant flow of patients seeking...
On-site ecstasy pill-testing services may reduce user risks at concerts and raves
Johns Hopkins scientists report that data collected over five years by volunteers who tested pills free of charge at music...
Largest genome-wide study of lung cancer susceptibility conducted
A new study conducted by an international team of lung cancer researchers, including Professor John Field from the University of...
Wyss Center joins $19M project to engineer brain-computer interface network
The Wyss Center in Geneva is set to work with Brown University on a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...
Phase II Study: Radiotherapy dose increase to hypoxic NSCLC lesions
Credit: QuantIF - LITIS EA 4108 - FR CNRS 3638, Henri Becquerel Cancer Center, Rouen, France RESTON, Va. - Fluorine-18...
Buprenorphine: Being out of treatment increases risk of death nearly 30-fold
Buprenorphine reduces mortality for those with opioid use disorder, but periods off treatment are associated with much higher mortality rates....
Type 1 diabetes risk linked to intestinal viruses
Credit: Robert Boston Doctors can't predict who will develop Type 1 diabetes, a chronic autoimmune disease in which one's own...
