Health
New dental imaging method uses squid ink to fish for gum disease
Credit: Jokerst Bioimaging Lab at UC San Diego Squid ink might be a great ingredient to make black pasta, but...
AGS guidance on diversity proves ‘seeing’ older patients…
IMAGE: New guidance from the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) aims to transform approaches to healthcare for our increasingly diverse older...
Weight-bearing exercises promote bone formation in men
Credit: MU News Bureau COLUMBIA, Mo. – Osteoporosis affects more than 200 million people worldwide and is a serious public...
Study shows a potential new approach to opioid crisis
Credit: ATS Jan. 25, 2018 — In a six-month study recently concluded, a research unit affiliated with two hospital institutions...
The eye is not immune to immunity
Credit: Sue Menko, Thomas Jefferson University (PHILADELPHIA) — A person needs immune-suppressive drugs for organ transplants but not typically for...
Gene therapy with BMP4 protects against weight gain and insulin resistance in mice
Credit: Photo: Michael Frietsch "By increasing BMP4, we can increase the metabolic rate, but we only see this in initially...
Cholesterol-fighting drugs lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: USC Schaeffer Center Common anti-cholesterol drugs show promise for reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease, a University of Southern...
UMass Amherst neuroscientist receives $2.64 million from NIH for…
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Neuroscientist Rebecca Spencer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently received a five-year, $2.64...
Hearing with your eyes — a Western style of speech perception
Credit: Dr. Kaoru Sekiyama Which parts of a person's face do you look at when you listen them speak? Lip...
University of Maryland orthopaedic surgeons to receive international…
Credit: University of Maryland School of Medicine BALTIMORE – Nov. 30, 2017. A research team led by Mohit N. Gilotra,...
Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time,…
Credit: L.A. Cicero When we are in a deep slumber our brain's activity ebbs and flows in big, obvious waves,...
INNUENDO — a new platform for genomics integration in surveillance of food-borne…
IMAGE: The project coordinator, Assistant Professor Mirko Rossi is in the back. In front, from the left are Docent Janne...
Researchers overcome obstacle for future stem cell therapies
Credit: Robert Judson and Fabio Rossi Researchers have discovered a new technique that overcomes one of the major challenges of...
UCLA study could explain link between high-cholesterol diet and colon cancer
Credit: Tontonoz lab/UCLA New UCLA research could help explain the link between a high-cholesterol diet and an elevated risk for...
New model may help science overcome the brain’s fortress-like…
Credit: Samah Jassam New model may help science overcome the brain's fortress-like barrier Scientists have helped provide a way to...
Alectinib potential new standard of care for ALK-positive non-small…
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Results of a 303-patient, multi-national phase III clinical trial known as ALEX published today...
Biochemists feed ‘poison pill’ to deadly virus with a funny name
It has a funny name – coxsackievirus – but there's nothing funny about how this tiny germ and its close...
New breast cancer drug may be effective against other types of cancer
PHILADELPHIA–Palbociclib, a new oral drug whose efficacy in combating breast cancer has been demonstrated alone and in combination with endocrine...
Dog ownership linked to lower mortality
A team of Swedish scientists have used national registries of more than 3.4 million Swedes aged 40 to 80 to...
New diagnostic criteria and treatment guidelines proposed for thyroid storm
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 27, 2017–With a mortality rate estimated at 10%, the life-threatening...
