Health
Beverly Davidson, PhD, elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Neuroscientist and gene therapy expert at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia receives outstanding honor in medicineCredit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Beverly...
UM School Of Medicine’s Kathleen Neuzil elected to National Academy of Medicine
Dr. Neuzil has played an important leadership role in bridging science and policy to serve the world's most vulnerable populationsCredit:...
DNA-reeling bacteria yield new insight on how superbugs acquire drug-resistance
A new imaging method invented at Indiana University leads to a discovery about how bacteria use thin hair-like surface appendages...
UConn launches hemp testing lab in response to industry need
Credit: Sean Flynn/UConn Photo In response to a rapidly expanding commercial hemp industry driven by interest in products with CBD...
Insects share the same signaling pathway to form their 3-dimensional body
Credit: Siegfried Roth A signalling pathway controlling morphogenesis, the formation of the three-dimensional body shape in the fruit fly Drosophila,...
New lightweight, portable robotic suit to increase running and walking performance
Newly developed robot suit made of fabric vest and wires to help people with restricted mobility to walk or run...
A complex marriage arrangement: New insights and unanswered questions in plant heterostyly
Landmark review highlights recent advances and unresolved questions as part of a New Phytologist special issue celebrating Prof. Spencer Barrett.Credit:...
Make some noise: How background noise affects brain activity
University of Alberta scientists take neuroscience outside the lab, investigating how different sorts of background noise affect our focusCredit: John...
SciLifeLab and AstraZeneca use cryo-EM to advance biomedicine
Research team of Alexey Amunts in collaboration with AstraZeneca unravel the extracellular region of the receptor tyrosine kinase RET involved...
Find FH® machine learning model flags individuals with FH for first time at national level
FH Foundation study published online in the Lancet Digital Health and presented at FH Global SummitCredit: The FH Foundation ATLANTA,...
National poll: Half of parents have declined kids’ play date invites
Many parents aren't comfortable with their child playing at another family's home -- but only 1 in 4 have been...
Mayo Clinic study: 20% of patients are prescribed opioids after cardiac device implantation surgery
This large US study found that 1 in 5 patients was prescribed opioids after having a pacemaker or similar device...
Autism spectrum disorder risk linked to insufficient placental steroid
Single ALLO injection during pregnancy was enough to avert both the cerebellar abnormalities and the aberrant social behaviors in experimental...
Salk scientists awarded $14.3 million to map circuitry for movement
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA, CA--(October 18, 2019) A team of Salk scientists led by Professor Martyn Goulding has been...
Why the flu is more deadly in those with diabetes
Researchers outlined immune dysfunction in mice that leads to more severe respiratory infections in those with diabetesCredit: University of Maryland...
Creatine powers T cells’ fight against cancer
Credit: Broad Stem Cell Research Center Creatine, the organic acid that is popularly taken as a supplement by athletes and...
Development and analytical validation of a next-generation sequencing based microsatellite instabili
The assay has a clinically relevant 5-day turnaround time and can be conducted on as little as 20 ng genomic...
NIH funds new All of Us Research Program genome center to test advanced sequencing tools
HudsonAlpha awarded $7 million to expand national health dataset with uncharted genetic variantsCredit: Photo courtesy of the HudsonAlpha Institute for...
Dr. Josef Steiner Cancer Research Award 2019 goes to Serena Nik-Zainal
Bioinformatician receives Swiss 'nobel prize for cancer research'Credit: Courtesy of Serena Nik-Zainal. Today, the Dr. Josef Steiner Cancer Foundation, which...
Potato as effective as carbohydrate gels for boosting athletic performance, study finds
Credit: Graphic by Michael B. Vincent CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Consuming potato puree during prolonged exercise works just as well as...
