Health
Towards personalised medicine: One type of data is not enough
Credit: EMBL-EBI 19 June, Heidelberg, Hinxton - EMBL researchers have designed a computational method to jointly analyse multiple types of...
Study explores satisfaction, quality of life after breast reconstruction
Boston, MA -- More than 60 percent of women who undergo a mastectomy to treat breast cancer choose breast reconstruction,...
DNA barcodes that reliably work: A game-changer for biomedical research
Credit: Richard Wheeler (Zephyris). Used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. In the same way that barcodes on your...
Annual southeast Asia haze linked to increased respiratory problems
For more than a decade, Southeast Asia has faced annual haze due to a combination of human activity, natural fires,...
A case of ‘kiss and tell’: Chromosomal kissing gets less elusive
Credit: Luft Lab, MDC How are chromosomes arranged in the cell nucleus? Is it possible that they communicate with one...
Possible link found between diabetes and common white pigment
Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin. In a pilot study by a team of researchers...
American Psychological Association’s 126th Annual Convention Aug. 9 – 12, 2018, San Francisco
The American Psychological Association's 126th annual convention will take place Aug. 9-12, 2018, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco....
Do circulating bone turnover markers indicate hip fracture risk?
The evidence that circulating levels of markers of bone turnover correlate with hip fracture risk among postmenopausal women is limited....
Finnish scientists analyzed the proteome of T helper 17 cells
Credit: Turku Centre for Biotechnology T helper 17 (Th17) cells belong to a group of T cells with essential functions...
Daily cannabis use is on the rise in American adults
NEW YORK (June 20, 2018)--Cannabis use may be decreasing among teens, but a new study by researchers at Columbia University's...
New ‘e-dermis’ brings sense of touch, pain to prosthetic hands
Credit: Science Robotics/AAAS Amputees often experience the sensation of a "phantom limb"--a feeling that a missing body part is still...
Substance in hair may be a marker for alcohol consumption
A new Drug Testing & Analysis study reveals that measuring levels of ethyl sulphate (EtS), a metabolite of ethanol, in...
New tool using Facebook data shows worldwide gender gap
Credit: UC3M This tool produces a metric, called the Facebook Gender Divide, based on the aggregate statistics of almost 1,5...
Putting the brakes on metastatic cancer
Credit: Melissa Fabrizio A groundbreaking discovery by University of Alberta researchers has identified previously-unknown therapeutic targets that could be key...
Guidelines address self-management of hospitalized diabetes patients
It is important that patients with diabetes be involved in decisions concerning the management of their condition while they are...
A collaborative development of a dengue vaccine candidate successful in preclinical study
In-Cell-Art (ICA), a biotechnology company specialized in nanocarrier technologies, BioNet-Asia (BNA), an innovative vaccine developer, and the research team led...
Workplace health clinics can lower health care spending
Opening onsite health clinics to provide comprehensive primary care to teachers and their families can lower a school district's health...
Surgery in space
With renewed public interest in manned space exploration comes the potential need to diagnose and treat medical issues encountered by...
Coconut oil prolongs life in peroxisomal disorders
Credit: © Margret Bülow/Julia Sellin "Lorenzo's Oil" was to help a seriously ill boy suffering from a peroxisomal disorder (adrenoleukodystrophy/ALD)....
Scientists unravel DNA code behind rare neurologic disease
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - June 20, 2018 - Scientists conducting one of the largest full DNA analyses of a...
