Health
Increased overweight in children of mothers who drank coffee while pregnant
Credit: Photo by Pontus Sundén A study published in the BMJ Open journal shows that even moderate coffee consumption during...
Healthy diet may lower risk of hearing loss in women
Boston, MA -- Hearing loss affects approximately 48 million Americans. Some evidence suggests that diet may influence risk of hearing...
Scientists screen molecules for promise as new prostate cancer drugs
Cancer researchers at the University of Bath have measured systematically how efficient molecules are at suppressing the activity of a...
Dental checklist of bad practice has patient care at its heart
Dental experts have drawn up a definitive list of scenarios that patients should never face in a bid to ensure...
Genome surgery for eye disease moves closer to reality
SAN FRANCISCO - May 11, 2018 -- Researchers from Columbia University have developed a new technique for the powerful gene...
EuroPCR 2018, the world’s leading course in interventional cardiovascular medicine
With an expected attendance of 10,000 interventional cardiologists, scientists, nurses, allied professionals and industry, EuroPCR 2018 will be welcoming the...
Key protein in sperm tail assembly identified
Credit: Photo courtesy of S. Llamazares / Gonzalez Lab The group led by ICREA Research Professor Cayetano Gonzalez at the...
Cancer treatment developed at Ben-Gurion U. changes cancer cells into normal ones
NEW YORK... May 11, 2018 - BGN Technologies, the technology-transfer company of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), announced that...
Do we subconsciously judge face-likeness?
Credit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The research team at the Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory...
Ronald and Terri Weinberg and family make $30 million commitment for Cleveland Clinic research
Credit: Stephen Travarca May 10, 2018, CLEVELAND: Cleveland entrepreneur Ronald E. Weinberg, his wife Terri, and their family, have made...
Genetic analysis for certain childhood brain tumors soon a standard-of-care?
The "Hopp Children's Cancer Center at the NCT Heidelberg" (KiTZ) is a joint initiative of Heidelberg University Hospital and the...
Trial shows chemotherapy is helping kids live with pulmonary vein stenosis
Credit: Callahan et al./Boston Children's Hospital Pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is a rare disease in which abnormal cells build up...
Tiny spiders, big color
There's plenty that's striking about Phoroncidia rubroargentea, a species of spider native to Madagascar, starting with their size - at...
How signals get inside cancer cells and spur aggressive growth
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- The outside of a cancer cell is bombarded by signals. They come from...
Study upends conventional view of opioid mechanism of action
Credit: Courtesy: Drs. Miriam Stoeber and Damien Jullié. A new discovery shows that opioids used to treat pain, such as...
Reducing tapeworm infection could improve academic performance, reduce poverty
Credit: Rob Jordan and Ian Fitzgerald A Stanford-led study in China has revealed for the first time high levels of...
Annual well woman visit to the OB/GYN can keep your heart healthy
DALLAS, May 10, 2018 - Annual well woman exams by OB/GYNs provide a golden opportunity to evaluate a woman's heart...
How the power of mathematics can help assess lung function
Credit: University of Southampton Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a new computational way of analysing X-ray images...
Scientists uncover brain circuits behind putting up a fight or freezing in place
Credit: Dr. Andrew Huberman and Lindsey Salay, Stanford University In a study of mice, National Institutes of Health-funded researchers describe...
Combining GANs and reinforcement learning for drug discovery
Credit: Insilico Medicine, Inc. Thursday, May 10, 2018, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based next-generation artificial intelligence company specializing...
