Health
Ben-Gurion U. researchers pinpoint child-pedestrian behaviors that lead to auto accidents
BEER-SHEVA, Israel…December 21, 2015 – "Look both ways before you cross the street" may be sage advice, but it is...
Novel technologies reveal key information about depleted east pacific green sea turtles
Credit: Cali Turner Tomaszewicz Populations of green sea turtles living in the eastern region of the Pacific Ocean have rebounded...
Powerful new technique can clone thousands of genes at once
Credit: Jennifer E. Fairman/Johns Hopkins University Scientists at Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, the University of Trento in Italy, and Harvard Medical...
Mini-intestine grown in a test tube for nutritional research
This news release is available in German. Research efforts on the intestine have increased in recent years. Owing to its...
Lessons from Ebola: New approach improves disease outbreak management
Credit: CDC A new approach to information gathering could allow scientists to quickly identify the most effective way to manage...
Good as gold
Few experiences invoke as much anxiety as a call from your doctor saying “you need to come back for more...
Ribosomes found to induce somatic cell pluripotency
Credit: Associate Professor Kunimasa Ohta In 2012, a Japanese research group discovered that human skin cells acquire pluripotency when introduced...
Kidney transplants: White blood cells control virus replication
Credit: University of Basel, Department of Biomedicine Certain white blood cells play an important role in bringing a harmful virus...
Circulating tumor cells associated with relapse in late-stage melanoma patients
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center A study revealing a connection between circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and relapse in stage IV...
In urban streams, pharmaceutical pollution is driving microbial resistance
Credit: Sylvia Lee (Millbrook, NY) In urban streams, persistent pharmaceutical pollution can cause aquatic microbial communities to become resistant to...
Immunotherapy drug nearly eliminates severe acute graft-versus-host disease
Credit: Seattle Children's SEATTLE – Dec. 9, 2017 – Results from a phase 2 clinical trial, presented by Seattle Children's...
Immunotherapy drug nearly eliminates severe acute graft-versus-host disease
Credit: Seattle Children's SEATTLE – Dec. 9, 2017 – Results from a phase 2 clinical trial, presented by Seattle Children's...
A new index for the diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Credit: © DZD/IDM Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease has become a global epidemic. There is not only a great interest worldwide...
Chlorinated lipids predict lung injury and death in sepsis patients
Credit: Saint Louis University / Ellen Hutti ST. LOUIS — In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation...
Major research initiative explores how our bones and muscles age, new ways to block their…
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (June 6, 2017) – With age, the form and function of our bones and muscles...
Gene that enables memories, sense of direction produces schizophrenia-like symptoms when mutated
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 18, 2017) – Mutations in a gene that should enable memories and a sense...
Spinal cord injury research: Bonus benefit to activity-based training
Credit: University of Louisville LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Activity-based training has resulted in unexpected benefits for individuals with severe spinal cord...
Skin testing, computerized support tool can improve antibiotic use in hospital inpatients
Credit: Brett Macaulay, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH)...
Newly discovered multicomponent virus is the first of its kind to infect animals
For the first time, a multicomponent virus–which contains different segments of genetic material in separate particles, rather than a single...
Brain’s insular cortex mediates approach and avoidance responses to others in distress
Credit: John P. Christianson, Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass. (01/31/2018) – The brain's insular cortex, which processes senses and emotions,...
