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Psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis symptoms curbed by bariatric surgery
New York, NY – Psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis symptoms were significantly lessened in patients who underwent bariatric, or weight loss,...
Brain imaging of premature babies to find biomarkers for cognitive/behavioral disorders
Credit: Children's Hospital Los Angeles Natasha Leporé, PhD, a principal investigator in the Department of Radiology and Imaging at Children's...
Rapid, low cost laser-based technique for biomass analysis described…
IMAGE: Industrial Biotechnology, led by Co-Editors-in-Chief Larry Walker, PhD, and Glenn Nedwin, PhD, MoT, CEO and President, TripleDNA Consulting, LLC,...
ARCH Venture Partners, Flagship Ventures and MD Anderson collaborate to launch Codiak BioSciences
Codiak BioSciences, Inc. announced today the closing of the first portion of a planned $80-plus million Series A and B...
NIDA announces recipients of 2017 Avant-Garde Awards for HIV/AIDS research
Credit: National Institute on Drug Abuse The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health,...
Depressed children respond differently to rewards than other kids
Credit: Robert Boston For many children, December often is linked to presents and excitement, but when a young child doesn't...
Is gender affirmative treatment effective for coexisting gender dysphoria and psychosis?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 3, 2017 — A new study demonstrates that gender dysphoria...
Penn study solves mystery of cell powerhouse’s balance of calcium
IMAGE: The mitochondrial matric calcium ion concentration regulates activity of the major mitochondrial calcium influx pathway, as measured by patch...
$2 million grant to speed the development of new vector control products
Credit: LSTM LSTM's Department of Vector Biology has received a major grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for...
Behind Green Eyes: New Species of deep-water hermit crab finds itself…
Credit: Jannes Landschoff 'Green-eyed hermit crab' is the common name for a new species recently discovered off the West Coast...
Research redefines proteins’ role in the development of spinal sensory cells
Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center/eLife A recent study led by Samantha Butler at the Eli and Edythe Broad...
UMass Amherst and research partners aim to improve flu season forecasts
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Research teams, including one led by biostatistician Nicholas Reich at the University of Massachusetts...
Bad air quality along utah’s wasatch front causes more than 200 pneumonia cases each year
Credit: University of Utah Health SALT LAKE CITY – Air pollution trapped by winter inversions along Utah's Wasatch Front, the...
Here’s how your body transports zinc to protect your health
Credit: Courtesy Wladek Minor Zinc is essential for wound healing, for vision, for DNA creation, for our senses of taste...
Placenta consumption offers few benefits for new moms
Credit: UNLV Photo Services A groundbreaking study by UNLV researchers shows that taking placenta capsules has little to no effect...
Once-a-week text messages to Kenyan women greatly improved likelihood…
A newly published, Canadian government funded study documents how a simple, inexpensive effort to send short, informative text messages regularly...
Alzheimer’s disease might be a ‘whole body’ problem
Credit: University of British Columbia Alzheimer's disease, the leading cause of dementia, has long been assumed to originate in the...
New plant engineering method could help fill demand for crucial malaria drug
A new and inexpensive technique for mass-producing the main ingredient in the most effective treatment for malaria, artemisinin, could help...
In lab research, scientists slow progression of a fatal form of muscular dystrophy
Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS — In a paper published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, Saint Louis University...
Mobile phone use while pregnant not linked to child neurodevelopment problems
Mobile phone use during pregnancy is unlikely to have any adverse effects on child neurodevelopment, according to new research published...