Health
How pathogenic bacteria prepare a sticky adhesion protein
Credit: Yu Chen, Harvard Medical School Researchers at Harvard Medical School, the University of California, San Francisco, and the University...
Food allergy is linked to skin exposure and genetics
'It's a major advance in understanding how food allergy starts' There are potential ways to intervene early to avoid developing...
HIV Cell dysfunction discovery sheds light on how virus works
Credit: Carla Shaffer / AAAS A team of chemical and biomedical engineers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The...
Printed thermo-plasmonic heat patterns for neurological disorder treatment
Credit: KAIST A KAIST team presented a highly customizable neural stimulation method. The research team developed a technology that can...
Fluorescent dye could enable sharper biological imaging
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Mechanism vital to keeping blood stem cells functional uncovered
Hematopoietic stem cells, that form mature blood cells, require a very precise amount of protein to function -- and defective...
New blood test useful to detect people at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease
Heidelberg, 6 April 2018 - There is, as yet, no cure for Alzheimer's disease. It is often argued that progress...
Species hitch a ride on birds and the wind to join green roof communities
Credit: Heather Rumble, University of Portsmouth New research suggests that species that live on green roofs arrived by hitching lifts...
New recommendations for endoscopic eradication therapy in Barrett’s esophagus
Downers Grove, Ill - April 6, 2018-- The latest issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the official journal of the American...
Save the date: Leading acoustics meeting in Minneapolis May 7-11, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 6, 2018 -- Science promises to sound more exciting than ever at this year's Acoustical Society of...
Massive single-cell survey of kidney cell types reveals new paths to disease
Credit: Katalin Susztak, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA - The kidney is a highly complex organ -...
Unexpected finding may deter disabling diabetic eye disease
Credit: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Diabetic retinopathy is considered one of the most disabling complications of diabetes...
University of Minnesota receives $42.6 million to expand its impact on scientific health research
The University of Minnesota's Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) received more than $42 million in renewed National Institutes of...
Telemedicine provides accurate diagnosis of rare cause of blindness in preemies
PORTLAND, Oregon - Accurately detecting a rare, but devastating cause of blindness in premature babies can be done as effectively...
nTIDE March 2018 Jobs Report: Americans with disabilities reach 2-year milestone
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ - April 6, 2018. Americans with disabilities reached a milestone this month, as the...
PET tracer could help predict treatment effectiveness for depression
Credit: MR Ananth et al., Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, N.Y. RESTON, Va - A positron emission tomography (PET) imaging...
£1 million funds 7 grants for pancreatic cancer research
(Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund) Seven research projects have been awarded grants totaling £1.1 million by the UK medical research charity,...
Research offers clues for improved influenza vaccine design
Credit: NIH WHAT: Influenza vaccines that better target the influenza surface protein called neuraminidase (NA) could offer broad protection against...
New blood test found to predict onset of TB up to two years in advance
Credit: ATS April 6, 2018 -- A new blood test has been found to more accurately predict the development of...
Smartphone ‘scores’ can help doctors track severity of Parkinson’s disease symptoms
Credit: Noam Finkelstein/Johns Hopkins U Parkinson's disease, a progressive brain disorder, is often tough to treat effectively because symptoms, such...
