Health
Americans slow down the clock of age
Americans may be aging more slowly than they were two decades ago. A new study by University of Southern California...
The role of verb fluency in the detection of early cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: Memory Clinic and Research Center of Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades, Barcelona, Spain March 16, 2018, Barcelona,...
Researchers join forces to improve life for children with genetic disorder
Credit: David Hungate/VTCRI Audrey Alves had just turned 2 when she first visited the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Neuromotor...
Blacks have more exposure to air pollutants raising heart disease risk, death
DALLAS, March 15, 2018 - Blacks often have higher exposure to air pollution than whites, which may partially explain their...
Biologists unravel another mystery of what makes DNA go ‘loopy’
Credit: Graphic by Victor Corces. Scientists discovered another key to how DNA forms loops and wraps inside the cell nucleus...
Rutgers student on front lines of orangutan conservation, research
Credit: Cecilia Mayer Deep in a tropical forest in Borneo 15 years ago, Rutgers student Didik Prasetyo first encountered a...
Huntsman Cancer Institute joins national clinical trial targeting AML
Credit: Jonathan Martinez, Huntsman Cancer Institute SALT LAKE CITY - Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U...
Ludwig study extends potential for personalized immunotherapy to large variety of cancers
Credit: Ludwig Cancer Research A Ludwig Cancer Research study shows that ovarian cancer, which has proved resistant to currently available...
SOMMa Spanish research institutions to safeguard scientific competitiveness
Credit: SOMMa The Severo Ochoa Centres and Maria de Maeztu Units Alliance (SOMMa) gathers research centres and units that received...
Cell therapy could improve brain function for Alzheimer’s disease
San Francisco, CA -- March 15, 2018 -- Like a great orchestra, your brain relies on the perfect coordination of...
Democratizing science: Making neuroscience experiments easier to share, reproduce
Over the past few years, scientists have faced a problem: They often cannot reproduce the results of experiments done by...
New survey finds huge and unnecessary variation of salt levels in bread
Canadian bread product saltiest in survey of global bread products Some breads surveyed had as much sodium (salt) as seawater...
Study suggests that cancer survivors are more easily fatigued
Adults who have undergone successful cancer treatment years or decades previously become fatigued more quickly than their peers who don't...
Core elements identified for successful transitions in care for older adults with dementia
Credit: Penn Nurisng PHILADELPHIA (March 15, 2018) - For older adults with multiple chronic conditions and complex care requirements, transitioning...
Viral hideout
Once herpes simplex infects a person, the virus goes into hiding inside nerve cells, hibernating there for life, periodically waking...
Well-child visits are effective time to help moms, study shows
PITTSBURGH, March 15, 2018 - In an effort to improve birth outcomes, well-child visits provide an opportune time to deliver...
UNC researcher awarded $2.5 million to study stress of poverty on children
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Cathi Propper, Ph.D., an associate research professor, has been awarded a $2.5 million...
Faulty cellular membrane ‘mix’ linked to Parkinson’s disease
Working with lab-grown human brain cells, Johns Hopkins researchers report they have uncovered a much sought-after connection between one of...
‘Frequency combs’ ID chemicals within the mid-infrared spectral region
Credit: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Applied Physics Division, Quantum Nanophotonics group WASHINGTON, D.C., March 15, 2018 -- Chemical...
H7N9 influenza vaccine clinical trials begin
Two new clinical trials testing an experimental vaccine to prevent influenza caused by an H7N9 influenza virus are now enrolling...
