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Digital support for reduced alcohol consumption
A digital support tool on your phone can help if you want to reduce your alcohol consumption. This has been...
Study finds that gold may hold the secret to treating inflammatory bowel disease
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), also known as "green cancer", is a chronic, non-specific disease of the intestine. IBD includes ulcerative...
Estimated 98 million Americans skipped treatments, cut back on food, gas or utilities to pay for healthcare
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Aug. 4, 2022 — Higher healthcare prices drove 38% of American adults – representing an estimated 98...
Mitochondrial DNA mutations linked to heart disease risk
Mitochondria are organelles found within most cells, best known for generating the chemical energy required to power cellular functions. Increasingly,...
Pediatric obesity is a complex condition with multiple subtypes
Approximately one third of children in the United States are overweight or obese. A study publishing August 4th in PLOS...
Zooming in to get the full picture
Scientists have constructed the most complete and detailed single-cell map of embryo development in any animal to date, using the...
How pathogenic gene variants lead to heart failure
Cardiomyopathy is not a uniform disease. Rather, individual genetic defects lead to heart failure in different ways, an international consortium...
These baboons borrowed a third of their genes from their cousins
DURHAM, N.C. -- New genetic analyses of wild baboons in southern Kenya reveals that most of them carry traces of...
Hyaluranic acid, a naturally occurring compound, awakens stem cells to repair damaged muscle
A new study published in the journal Science reveals a unique form of cell communication that controls muscle repair. In...
Mothers use the benefits of song to promote infant development
Professor Shannon de l’Etoile knows the impact of a mother’s lullaby.Credit: Photo: Jenny Hudak/University of Miami Professor Shannon de l’Etoile...
New tool measures moral distress in pandemic nursing care
PHILADELPHIA (August 4, 2022) – The COVID‐19 pandemic created novel patient care circumstances that may have increased nurses' moral distress,...
How microglia contribute to Alzheimer’s disease
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease is a reduction in the firing of some neurons in...
Sponge-like electrodes inspired by sugar cubes could improve medical monitoring
To monitor heart rhythms and muscle function, doctors often attach electrodes to a patient’s skin, detecting the electrical signals that...
Sterile mice produce rat sperm
Researchers generated rat sperm cells inside sterile mice using a technique called blastocyst complementation. The advance appears August 4 in the...
A matter of concentration: molecular mechanisms of water homeostasis
Researchers led by Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) elucidate a key protein interaction involved in the process of urine...
Grant funding aids University of Cincinnati study of new pancreatic cancer treatment
Pancreatic cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States, with a five-year survival rate of...
The global map of aridity
Precipitation alone does not properly characterize vegetation water stresses. Indeed, water needs of plants or crops to maintain their physiological...
Journal of Food Protection is moving to Elsevier and will convert to full open access
London, August 4, 2022 – The International Association for Food Protection (IAFP), a leading organization of food scientists and food...
A new approach for detecting tumor heterogeneity to assess breast cancer patient outcomes
LEBANON, NH – Tumor heterogeneity refers to the presence of a variety of distinct cell types within a tumor. High...
Monoclonal antibody prevents malaria in US adults, NIH trial shows
One injection of a candidate monoclonal antibody (mAb) known as L9LS was found to be safe and highly protective in...
