Health
Saarland University cooperates with leading Chinese genomics organization BGI
The scientists want to decipher the relevance of such RNAs in neurodegeneration and aging and to establish a lab in...
Invaluable to the medical industry, the horseshoe crab is under threat
Blood from horseshoe crabs is essential for many drug, implant and environmental safety tests - but blood harvesting, together with...
CNIC coordinates a project from the Leducq Foundation
(Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares) A project coordinated by the Carlos III National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), has been...
ZooKeys celebrates 10 years at the forefront of zoological research with issue No. 770
Credit: S Kahlbrock Under the California sun in December, 2007, two entomologists - Prof Lyubomir Penev and Dr Terry Erwin...
Combining antibiotics changes their effectiveness
Credit: Aleksandra Krolik/EMBL The effectiveness of antibiotics can be altered by combining them with each other, non-antibiotic drugs or even...
Brain study paves way for therapy for common cause of dementia
Scientists have uncovered a potential approach to treat one of the commonest causes of dementia and stroke in older people....
Stabilizing endothelial cells could help tackle vascular dementia
Researchers have discovered that stabilizing dysfunctional endothelial cells with approved drugs reverses cellular dysfunction in a rat model of cerebral...
Expanding primary care buprenorphine treatment could curb opioid overdose crisis
Expanding the availability of medication treatment for opioid use disorder in primary care settings would be a major step toward...
New anti-clotting drugs linked to lower risk of serious bleeding
New drugs known as direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) used to treat serious blood clots are associated with reduced risks of...
Study shows where brain transforms seeing into acting
Credit: Sur Lab / MIT Picower Institute You see the flour in the pantry, so you reach for it. You...
Testosterone increases men’s preference for status goods
Fontainebleau (France), Singapore, Abu Dhabi, 3 July, 2018: A recent study conducted by a research team around Hilke Plassmann, the...
More than 8 million babies born from IVF since the world’s first in 1978
Barcelona, 3 July 2018: Forty years after the birth of Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, an international committee...
ICD placements not meeting medicare coverage decline after investigation
Following the announcement of a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into potential overuse of primary prevention implantable cardioverter defibrillators...
Sound waves could provide ‘liquid biopsies’
Credit: Kara Manke, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Using sound waves, an international team of researchers has developed a gentle,...
Study: Small talk not as bad as previously thought
People who engage in more substantive conversations tend to be happier, a new study confirms. Researchers also found that idle...
Researchers gather in New Delhi to kick off observational study for newborns with sepsis
Over 80 researchers from 11 countries are meeting in New Delhi today to kick off an observational study to understand...
Pelvic exams do not help diagnose STDs in adolescent girls, study says
WASHINGTON, DC -- A pelvic exam does not improve a physician's ability to diagnose certain sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in...
Consciousness is partly preserved during general anaesthesia
When people are administered an anaesthetic, they seem to lose consciousness - or at least they stop reacting to their...
Neuroscientists uncover secret to intelligence in parrots
University of Alberta neuroscientists have identified the neural circuit that may underlay intelligence in birds, according to a new study....
Feeling young could mean your brain is aging more slowly
While everyone gets older, not everyone feels their age. A recent study finds that such feelings, called subjective age, may...
