Health
Mount Sinai builds modeling systems identifying gene-drug and environment interaction
A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the University of Washington has designed...
NIH awards Steve Farber $3.3-million to identify medicines for cardiovascular disease
Credit: Image courtesy of Jay Thierer Baltimore, MD--Carnegie's Department of Embryology scientist Steven Farber and team have been awarded a...
Tracking a killer
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- A major cause of human disability and death throughout the world, sepsis is a condition that...
PIEZO2, a molecular target for treating clinical pain
Credit: Scripps Research LA JOLLA, CA - Oct. 10, 2018 - If you've ever been sunburned, you've experienced the dreaded...
Researchers using 3D facial scans to aid diagnosis of children with rare genetic syndrome
Credit: 3dMD CLEMSON, South Carolina -- Clemson University faculty have been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health...
Columbia scientist awarded $11.3 million to identify new targets against brain disease
Credit: John Abbott for Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK -- Anthony Fitzpatrick, PhD, a Principal Investigator at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute...
New study helps explain recent scarcity of Bay nettles
Credit: © J. Lefcheck/VIMS. A new, long-term study of how environmental conditions affect the abundance and distribution of jellyfish in...
New appropriate use criteria for lumbar puncture in Alzheimer’s diagnosis
In preparation for more tools that detect and measure the biology associated with Alzheimer's and other dementias earlier and with...
Study: Online positive psychology exercises improve quality of life in hemodialysis patients
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Kidney dialysis patients who engage in technology-based positive psychology exercises during...
Advances in deep learning for drug discovery and biomarker development published in top journal
Credit: Insilico Medicine Wednesday, 10th of October, Rockville, MD - While the many concepts in artificial intelligence date back to...
Dartmouth Institute receives $3.5 million for research to prevent acute kidney injury
Credit: Dartmouth Institute Over two million people in the United States undergo cardiac catheterization each year. While the procedure is...
Mayo Clinic researchers identify gene types driving racial disparities in myeloma
ROCHESTER Minn. -- Researchers at Mayo Clinic have identified three specific gene types that account for a known two-to-three-fold increase...
University of Guelph researcher develops 3-in-1 vaccine against traveller’s diarrhea
Credit: University of Guelph A first-ever vaccine designed to deliver a one-two-three punch against the main causes of traveller's diarrhea...
$3.6 million to study adverse effects of genome editing
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--October 10, 2018--As genome editing technologies quickly advance toward clinical therapies, they are raising hopes of a completely...
Worse outcomes for Hispanic infants with critical congenital heart disease
DALLAS, Oct. 2018 -- Hispanic infants with critical types of congenital heart disease have worse outcomes in their first year...
Being overweight or obese in your 20s will take years off your life, according to a new report
Credit: The George Institute for Global Health Young adults classified as obese in Australia can expect to lose up to...
Understanding water’s role in antibiotic resistance emergence and dissemination in Africa
Credit: Virginia Tech Greater access to antibiotic drugs, together with their misuse and overuse, has accelerated the emergence of antibiotic...
Klebsiella pneumoniae drug resistance in infants studied in Kazan
The research was conducted by Kazan Federal University, Kazan State Medical University, City Clinical Children's Hospital N 1, and Republican...
Clues to lupus’s autoimmune origins in precursor cells
Credit: From Jenks Immunity 2018 In the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus or SLE, the immune system produces antibodies against...
Lung cancer deaths are 28 percent lower in California
Early adoption of tobacco control efforts in California lead to fewer people ever smoking, reduced the amount used by those...
