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September 17, 2025

Study by blood doctors a breakthrough for hemophiliacs

Credit: Wits University Patients with haemophilia bleed spontaneously or following trauma. The most common sites of bleeding are into joints,...

Infurna earns GSA’s 2018 Baltes Foundation Award

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) -- the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging -- has...

Researchers receive $18 million to study connections between heart health and cognition

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Aug. 30, 2018 - The National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH),...

HPTN 074 demonstrates significant benefits among people living with HIV who inject drugs

DURHAM, NC - Investigators from the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) today announced The Lancet has published key results from...

Discovery of long-lived macrophages in the intestine

Credit: © TARGID - KU Leuven Macrophages are specialised immune cells that destroy bacteria and other harmful organisms. KU Leuven...

Whitfield earns GSA’s 2018 Robert W. Kleemeier Award

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) -- the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging -- has...

National Cancer Institute funds research on computer-generated patient care summaries

Credit: UIC/Roberta Dupuis Devlin The University of Illinois at Chicago has received nearly $1.5 million in funding from the National...

Neville Sanjana receives Brain & Behavior Research Foundation’s Young Investigator Award

Credit: New York Genome Center/Brain & Behavior Research Foundation NEW YORK, NY (August 30, 2018) -- Neville Sanjana, PhD, Core...

Lipsitz earns GSA’s 2018 Donald P. Kent Award

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) -- the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging -- has...

Access to 3D printing is changing the work in research labs

Credit: McMaster University A small, black box developed in a McMaster University lab could change the way scientists search for...

A climate ‘wake-up call’

If we proactively implement effective fisheries management and limit global temperature rise, the world's oceans still have the potential to...

DOE study targets safer storage of nuclear waste

Credit: University of Houston About 20 percent of the electricity produced in the United States is generated at nuclear power...

UMass Amherst microbiologist will lead new soil warming studies

Credit: UMass Amherst/DeAngelis lab AMHERST, Mass. - Microbial ecologist Kristen DeAngelis at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been recognized...

Speeding progress in migraine requires unraveling sex differences

To decrease the substantial health and economic burden of migraine on individuals and society, researchers need to examine and address...

Stem cells show promise as drug delivery tool for childhood brain cancer

CHAPEL HILL -- The latest in a series of laboratory breakthroughs could lead to a more effective way to treat...

What’s that smell? Scientists find a new way to understand odors

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(August 29, 2018) Every smell, from a rose to a smoky fire to a pungent fish,...

Access to 3-D printing is changing the work in research labs

Credit: McMaster University A small, black box developed in a McMaster University lab could change the way scientists search for...

Department of Energy invests $1.1 million in sorghum disease resistance research

Credit: Amber Ruedi, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Sorghum, a more drought-tolerant cousin to corn, is grown throughout the...

NSF funds projects to ‘connect dots’ (and data), address multi-scaled environmental issues

Credit: Meryl Mims, Virginia Tech The National Science Foundation (NSF) is investing $9 million in nine new projects to research...

A new take on fighting multi-drug resistant bacteria