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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...
Improving birth outcomes one amino acid at a time
(TORONTO, Canada - Wednesday, March 7, 2018) - A simple dietary supplement (L-arginine) was found to improve birth outcomes, paving...
Cooking up change for rust belt chemical manufacturers
(University of Pittsburgh) The reluctance of American chemical manufacturers to update their technology has dulled the nation's competitive edge for...
Is your stress changing my brain?
Credit: Adrian Shellard, Hotchkiss Brain Institute. In a new study in Nature Neuroscience, Jaideep Bains, PhD, and his team at...
Thirdhand smoke found to increase lung cancer risk in mice
Credit: Antoine Snijders, Jian-Hua Mao, and Bo Hang/Berkeley Lab Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley...
Study finds mandatory flu vaccines for healthcare workers reduce absenteeism
Credit: Children's Hospital Colorado Aurora, Colo. (March 8, 2018) - A multi-institutional study, as reported in the journal Infection Control...
Exposure to air pollution during pregnancy linked to brain alterations
Credit: ISGlobal / Biological psychiatry A new study performed by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) --a centre supported...
Serious asthma attacks reduced by temporary quadrupling of steroid inhaler, study finds
Serious asthma attacks in adults can be reduced by a temporary but significant increase in the dose of inhaled steroids...
Inherited mutation leads to overproduction of EPO
Credit: (Image: University of Basel, Department of Biomedicine) A newly-discovered hereditary mutation is responsible for an increased production of erythropoietin...
City mouse-country mouse experiment shows link between environment, worm infections
Credit: Photo by Andrea Graham, Princeton University When laboratory mice moved to the countryside where they could burrow in dirt,...
For nanomedicine, cell sex matmonoclonal antibodies crucial to fighting emerging infectious diseases say NIAID officials
WHAT: Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs)--preparations of a specific type of antibody designed to bind to a single target--have shown promise in...
New study finds less research being published by female radiologists
A new study has found that although radiology research by women has increased significantly over the past five decades, the...
Many adolescent and young adult cancer survivors have more social connections than peers
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Seth Dixon Survivors of adolescent and young adult cancer often have stronger social...
A research study analyzes the mental health care community model
Credit: UC3M The project has been undertaken using digital games with 270 participants who make up the mental health care...
