Health
Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. student receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Credit: The University of Akron Sharon Truesdell has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. The program...
How intestinal bacteria can affect your blood sugar and lipid levels
Credit: Professor Sumio Ohtsuki Intestinal bacteria have attracted recent attention since they were discovered to influence various physiological functions and...
Disparities in coastal stream restoration in central California
Credit: Carolyn Lagattuta Stream restoration efforts along the coast of Central California are unevenly distributed, with activity more likely to...
Cancer researchers receive more than $2 million to eradicate common form of leukemia
Credit: Scott Wiseman JUPITER, FL--April 10, 2018--Christoph Rader, PhD, associate professor at the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute,...
Speakers announced for Nutrition 2018 Meeting
Renowned scientists and practitioners will address key topics in nutrition in the United States and around the globe at Nutrition...
State-of-the-art regional cryo-electron microscopy facility to open at University of Leicester
Credit: University of Leicester A new state-of-the-art Cryo-EM facility that will advance the understanding of the processes of life is...
A cosmic gorilla effect could blind the detection of aliens
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech A well-known experiment with young people bouncing a ball showed that when an observer focuses on...
Houston Methodist leads international research for rare neurodegenerative disorder
Credit: Houston Methodist A rare, inherited neurodegenerative disorder will soon be the focus of an international clinical research effort led...
Cancer risk rises as patients wait for diagnostic testing
PHILADELPHIA - The longer a patient with a positive screening result waits for diagnostic testing, the worse their cancer outcomes...
Even short travel can spread colistin-resistant bacteria
Osaka - The emergence of antibiotic resistance among dangerous pathogens is increasingly problematic worldwide. Many strains of infectious bacteria have...
Contrast-enhanced subharmonic imaging detects prostate cancers not identified by MRI
Leesburg, VA, April 9, 2018 - A test of contrast-enhanced subharmonic imaging (SHI) has shown promise in detecting prostate cancers...
Biomarker panel can guide treatment of brain cancer
In an article published April 10th in the journal Cell Reports, researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) describe...
Absence of a transcription factor halts tooth development in mid-stride
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Amjad Javed, Ph.D., and University of Alabama at Birmingham colleagues have found a key role...
Hepatitis C: A novel point-of-care assay
Credit: ©Institut Pasteur One of the major challenges identified by the WHO in efforts to eradicate the hepatitis C virus...
Research suggests alternative treatment for beta blocker intolerant heart attack patients
Beta blockers have become a prescription drug staple for recovering heart attack patients. However, these blood pressure-reducing medications cannot be...
Study finds humans and others exposed to prenatal stress have high stress levels after birth
Credit: Adrian V. Jaeggi Vertebrate species, including humans, exposed to stress prenatally tend to have higher stress hormones after birth,...
28th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
We invite you to the 28th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, which will take place in Madrid,...
Patients with high-risk clinical features are at high risk for acute aortic dissection
Credit: Kirsty Challen, B.Sc., MBChB, MRes, Ph.D., Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, United Kingdom. DES PLAINES, IL- Patients with one or more...
Two Colorado studies find resistance mechanisms in ALK+ and ROS1+ cancers
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Targeted treatments have revolutionized care for lung cancer patients whose tumors harbor ALK or...
Mount Sinai-led task force identifies ways US health care systems can learn from the world
Millions of Americans have the same life expectancy as the American national average in the 1970s, according to a new...
