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Smoking and pre-eclampsia may cause fertility problems for offspring, study suggests
Low levels of oxygen in the womb - which can be caused by smoking or conditions such as pre-eclampsia -...
Quantum physics and origami for the ultimate get-well card
Scientists have combined the simplicity of paper with the complexity of quantum physics for point-of-care testing in low-resource environmentsCredit: Prof....
Cancer researchers highlight clinical potential of liquid biopsy using droplet digital PCR technology at the 2019 AACR Annual Meeting
Atlanta-March 29, 2019-New research demonstrating the clinical utility of Bio-Rad's Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR) powered liquid biopsy will be presented...
Pain, pain go away: new tools improve students’ experience of school-based vaccines
Student-centered support tools reduce vaccine-associated pain, fear, and fainting during school-based clinicsLearn about how to reduce pain, fear and dizziness...
Binding affinities of perfluoroalkyl substances to Baikal seal PPARα
In vitro/in silico evaluations of binding affinities of perfluoroalkyl substances to Baikal seal PPARαCredit: Center for Marine Environmental Studies (CMES),...
Air quality to remain a problem in India despite pollution control policies
According to an independent study released today by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Council on...
New model predicts substantial reduction of malaria transmitting mosquitoes
The role of mosquitoes in spreading malaria is the biggest factor behind a recent study that found them to be...
New way of designing systems against correlated disruptions uses negative probability
Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In March of 2011, a powerful earthquake off...
Dr. Lauren Ferrante, critical care expert, becomes inaugural Hurria awardee at #AGS19
Credit: (C) 2019. American Geriatrics Society The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and the AGS Health in Aging Foundation today conferred...
Bacteria partners with virus to cause chronic wounds, Stanford study finds
A common bacterial pathogen called Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces a virus that substantially increases the pathogen's ability to infect us, according...
Modelled climate change impact on mosquito-borne virus transmission
Credit: NIAID (CC BY 2.0, 2016) Mosquito-borne viruses, such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika, already threaten over a billion people...
New Yorkers brace for self-cloning Asian longhorned tick
Columbia researchers warn that NYC's Asian longhorned tick population is larger than previously knownCredit: Center for Disease Control and Prevention...
Novel brain map tracks early brain atrophy from HIV infection
Credit: Xiong Jiang/Georgetown WASHINGTON -- A new map of brain tissue in people with HIV shows atrophy in several areas...
FEFU scientists conduct research of quark-gluon plasma for the Russian NICA collider
Credit: Roman Savin, FEFU press office Scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) won the Megascience-NICA competition of the Russian...
Dissecting dengue: Innovative model sheds light on confounding immune response
About 40 percent of the global population is at risk for contracting dengue - the most important mosquito-borne viral infection...
1 billion people will be newly exposed to diseases like dengue fever as world temperatures rise
WASHINGTON -- As many as a billion people could be newly exposed to disease-carrying mosquitoes by the end of the...
Running upright: The minuscule movements that keep us from falling
New study finds the human body constantly corrects to stay on its feet COLUMBUS, Ohio--Maybe running comes easy, each stride...
Screening for colorectal cancer at 45 would avert deaths, but testing older adults would do more
Starting routine colorectal cancer screening at age 45 rather than 50 would decrease U.S. cancer deaths by as much as...
How to make self-driving cars safer on roads
USC computer science researchers develop a new way to test machine learning algorithms that control self-driving carsCredit: Anand Balakrishnan It's...
Research provides framework for developing Ebola virus therapeutic under animal rule
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) today announced that, for the first time, the U.S. Food...
