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Highly specific synaptic plasticity in addiction
Cues trigger enzyme activity outside specific cell typesCredit: Elsevier Philadelphia, January 26, 2021 - Addiction, or substance use disorder (SUD),...
Breakthrough design at UBCO vastly improves mechanical heart valve
A twist on the decade's-old design improves blood flow, prevents clotsCredit: UBCO New research coming out of UBC's Okanagan campus...
How did Florida fail to respond to a coral disease epizootic and what’s to follow?
Credit: William Precht By 2020, massive losses of large populations of corals have been observed throughout Florida and into the...
Impact of patient-reported symptom information on lumbar spine MRI Interpretation
Patient-reported symptom information from a brief questionnaire can be correlated with MRI findings to distinguish presumptive pain generators from incidental...
Governments need to set clear rules for vaccinating health care workers against COVID-19
CMAJ analysis by members of uOttawa's Faculty of Law and Faculty of Medicine find legal justification for mandating vaccinating health...
In ED patients with chest and abdominal pain, care delivered by physicians and APPs is similar
Credit: KIRSTY CHALLEN, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS, UNITED KINGDOM. DES PLAINES, IL -- In patients matched on...
New book on Influenza: The Cutting Edge from CSHLPress
Credit: Image courtesy of Michiko Ujie and Masaki Imai, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo Cold Spring Harbor, NY....
How fast could SARS-CoV-2 be detected?
Credit: @Science China Press In the past 20 years, humans have suffered several serious epidemics from emerging viruses, such as...
Domino effects and synchrony in seizure initiation
Credit: Figure courtesy of Jennifer Creaser and Sprice Machines. Epilepsy, a neurological disease that causes recurring seizures with a wide...
Brain-to-brain communication demo receives DARPA funding
Wireless linkage of brains may soon go to human testingCredit: Photo by Tommy LaVergne/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 25, 2021)...
Preserving stem cells and tissue without the freezer burn
Dr. Robert Ben of uOttawa's Department of Chemistry leads multi-million-dollar initiative that thwarts ice growth to preserve samples for future...
Major discovery helps explain coral bleaching
Credit: Nils Rädecker Corals, like all animals, must eat to live. The problem is that most corals grow in tropical...
Borderline personality disorder: Don’t ignore it
Diagnose it, treat it and teen patients improveCredit: University of Houston For many years, clinicians have been hesitant to diagnose...
Dietary adherence and the fight against obesity
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (January 25, 2021) - While eating less and moving more are the basics of weight control...
Photocatalytic reaction in the shadow
Credit: @Science China Press Solar-driven photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting is an attractive approach to convert solar energy into chemical energy....
Unmanned aerial vehicles to scale new heights thanks to NASA
NASA is funding a major project on the future of autonomous air cargo transportation, and The University of Texas at...
For veterans after suicide attempts, gender affects recovery needs
Credit: Denneson et al. (2021), Medical Care January 25, 2021 - What care do veterans need when recovering after suicide...
How complex oscillations in a quantum system simplify with time
Credit: S. Sotiriadis / Freie Universität Berlin Quantum physics allows to make statements about the behaviour of a wide variety...
UTSA holds virtual groundbreaking for School of Data Science
Credit: UTSA JANUARY 25, 2021 -- UTSA today marked the groundbreaking of its $90 million School of Data Science and...
Better bundled: new principle for generating X-rays
Physicists from Göttingen University develop method in which beams are simultaneously generated and guided by 'sandwich structure'Credit: Julius Hilbig X-rays...
