Health
Vascular bypass grafting: A biomimetic engineering approach
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering/Jonathan Vande Geest PITTSBURGH (January 23, 2018) … When a patient with heart disease is in...
Phase III clinical trials for stem cell-based cartilage regeneration…
Credit: Osaka University A group of researchers at Osaka University developed a synthetic tissue using synovium-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs)...
Poor air quality increases patients’ risk of heart attack, new study finds
People with heart disease face an increased risk of a serious heart attack during poor air quality days, according to...
Will immunotherapy add value to chemotherapy for HER-2 positive…
The prognosis for patients with gastric cancer is poor. In western countries even patients with localized gastric or gastro-esophageal junction...
Defining optimal opioid pain medication prescription length following surgery
Credit: Scully et al. JAMA Surgery Sept. 2017 Boston, MA–A new study led by researchers at the Center for Surgery...
New research on the muscles of elite athletes: When quality is better…
Credit: Hans-Christer Holmberg, Mid Sweden University and Joachim Nielsen, University of Southern Denmark We can all recognise that feeling of...
Forecasting the path of breast cancer in a patient
USC researchers have developed a mathematical model to forecast metastatic breast cancer survival rates using techniques usually reserved for weather...
A video database for cellular tracking created, useful in the fight against cancer
Credit: Cell Tracking Challenge The results of this research have been recently presented in the scientific journal Nature Methods, in...
How fungi stage a deadly under-water attack on Aedes mosquito larvae
Credit: Tariq Butt Insect pathogenic fungi can grow in liquid suspensions and on solid substrates, and their spores can attack...
Researchers may hold key to developing a single treatment against…
IMAGE: This is the lead UTMB author, Alex Bukreyev Credit: The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston A collaborative...
Frogs reveal mechanism that determines viability of hybrids
Credit: University of California Berkeley, Radboud University When two related species crossbreed, their genetic material crosses, which can lead to...
UTA team wins Brain Bowl neuroscience quiz show
Credit: UTA A University of Texas at Arlington team has won the 2017 Brain Bowl organized by University of Texas...
Genetic findings in ‘type 1.5’ diabetes may shed light on better diagnosis,…
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers investigating a form of adult-onset diabetes that shares features with the two better-known types...
UTHealth study: 78 percent of hospital workers in Houston are overweight or obese
Credit: UTHealth HOUSTON – (Jan. 27, 2017) – Seventy-eight percent of employees at Houston hospitals are overweight or obese, according...
Asian pollution, heat waves worsen US smog, Princeton-NOAA study shows
Credit: Meiyun Lin PRINCETON, N.J. — An influx of pollution from Asia in the western United States and more frequent...
Lack of research keeps end-of-life care in status quo
IMAGE: Robin Kruse, Ph.D., research professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the MU School of Medicine....
Complete clearance of hepatitis B is rare — especially in women…
Researchers at several different US sites have found that less than one-third of 1% of patients infected with hepatitis B...
Shorebirds studied in ‘Noah’s ark’
Credit: Pavel Tomkovich An international research group, including a scientist from the Zoological Museum (Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State...
Norovirus evades immune system by hiding out in rare gut cells
Credit: Center for Disease Control and Prevention PHILADELPHIA — Noroviruses are the leading cause of non-bacterial gastroenteritis in the world...
‘No evidence’ that bone-growth agent for spinal fusion increases cancer risk
November 12, 2015 – A new study may alleviate concerns regarding increased cancer risk for patients undergoing spinal fusion surgery...
