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LSU Health New Orleans research discovers new Rx for allergic contact dermatitis
New Orleans, LA - Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of...
MicroRNA predicts and protects against severe lung disease in extremely premature infants
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Extremely low birth-weight babies are at risk for a chronic lung disease called bronchopulmonary dysplasia,...
Free ‘nutrition guide for clinicians’ app covers 100 medical conditions
Credit: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine WASHINGTON--The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine--a nonprofit with 12,000 doctor members--has released the third...
Supply bottleneck impairs nerve function
Credit: Hanaa Ghanawi Two partners have to find their way to each other in order to transport substances to the...
Best practices lacking for managing traumatic brain injury in geriatric patients
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 6, 2018--When older adults suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI),...
Enzyme ensures thick insulation
Axons, the long projections of neural cells which form the nerves of our peripheral nervous system, are like electrical cables:...
Once degraded, Brazilian savanna does not regenerate naturally
Some of Brazil's most important rivers, including the Xingu, Tocantins, Araguaia, São Francisco, Parnaíba, Gurupi, Jequitinhonha, Paraná and Paraguay, rise...
The ‘architecture of life’ described by computer modeling
While most of biology and medicine focus on the key roles genes and chemicals play in the formation and control...
Scientists show how the brain may be wired for drinking fluids
Credit: Courtesy of Oka lab; CalTech, Pasadena Scientists uncovered a high-resolution map of the wiring inside the mouse brain's thirst...
Non-invasive brain stimulation improves gait impairment of Parkinson’s disease patients
Walking presents many challenges for patients with Parkinson's disease. Among the most burdensome of these challenges is "freezing of gait,"...
New options for targeting gene mutation in FA described in nucleic acid therapeutics
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 7, 2018--Researchers have shown that a wide variety of synthetic...
The shapes of water
Water, always important, always controversial, always fascinating, remains surprising. For a substance that is ubiquitous on Earth, three quarters of...
Early-killed rye shows promise in edamame
Credit: Marty Williams, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - With the rise of herbicide-resistant weeds in most grain and vegetable...
ZooKeys special: Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Myriapodology, Thailand
Credit: 17th International Congress of Myriapodology For the third consecutive time, a special issue in the open access zoological journal...
Algorithm shows differences between nurse, doctor care
Credit: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago has published the first quantitative...
New insights into why patients have a higher risk of heart attack in the morning
Cardiovascular disease patients have lower levels of an important family of protective molecules in their blood in the morning, which...
TSRI scientists zero in on treatment for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Credit: Photo by Cindy Brauer LA JOLLA, CA - March 8, 2018 - About 1 in 2,500 people have a...
Opening session at ACS meeting will focus on nexus of food, energy and water
WASHINGTON, March 8, 2018 -- During the Opening Session and Welcome Reception, five scientists will explore a variety of subjects...
Gastrointestinal hormone measurably improved symptoms of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Credit: UC San Diego Health Through a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase II clinical trial, researchers at University of California San...
New way to fight sepsis: Rev up patients’ immune systems
Credit: Huy Mach While many people have never heard of sepsis, it causes about 250,000 deaths annually in the United...
