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Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (July 17, 2019) - It is well understood that urban black males are at a disproportionately high risk of poor health outcomes. But little is known about how the neighborhood environments where these men…
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Popular new crop needs research-based dataCredit: Photo by G. Rowsey, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Blühen Botanicals and the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture are pleased to announce an agreement to conduct hemp…
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Materials scientists uncover source of degradation in sodium batteries Batteries power our lives: we rely on them to keep our cell phones and laptops buzzing and our hybrid and electric cars on the road. But ever-increasing adoption of the…
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Research could lead to designer algae that produces fuels and cleanup chemicalsCredit: Debashish Bhattacharya/Rutgers University-New Brunswick It's a case of grand larceny that could lead to new fuels and cleanup chemicals. Ten…
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July 16, 2019, Gaithersburg, MD - The Institute for In Vitro Sciences (IIVS) is pleased to announce it is part of a winning consortium, headed by SYRCLE (the Systematic Review Centre for Laboratory animal Experimentation), to develop…
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For bacteria, the neighbors co-determine which cell dies firstCredit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Bacteria do not simply perish in hunger phases fortuitously; rather, the surrounding cells have a say as well. A research team from the…
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What The Study Did: National registry data from five countries (Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Israel and Western Australia) were used to estimate the contribution of various genetic and nongenetic factors on the risk of autism spectrum…
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In a review publishing July 17 in the journal Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, researchers examined how artificial intelligence (AI) could affect drug development in the coming decade. Big pharma and other drug developers are…
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What The Study Did: This observational study included 46,000 injured workers in Tennessee who weren't taking opioids at the time of their injury and looked at how common long-term opioid use was and what factors were associated with it.…
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Scientists developed a command-and-control plugin for intelligent industrial robots Robot technicians from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) together with colleagues from the Far Eastern Brach of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB…
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While revealing that metastatic breast cancer cells alter their shape to spread to other regions of the body, researchers develop a mathematical model that can be applied to study similar cellular systemsCredit: Beth Israel Deaconess…
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Despite special restricted distribution program, study reports several hundred pregnancies per year among women taking isotretinoin Isotretinoin (also known by its former brand name as Accutane or Roaccutane) is an extremely effective acne…
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Military deployments to austere environments - whether humanitarian missions or combat operations - involve extensive logistical planning, which is often complicated by unforeseen events. Researchers at North Carolina State University…
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A group of researchers has developed a way to power small devices by walking.Credit: Gao et al. WASHINGTON, D.C., July 17, 2019 -- Imagine powering your devices by walking. With technology recently developed by a group of…
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