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Key factor may be missing from models that predict disease outbreaks from climate change
Credit: Meghan Duffy, University of Michigan BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- New research from Indiana University suggests that computer models used to...
A review of prevalent methods for automatic skin lesion diagnosis
The three prevalent skin cancers, according to the literature are melanoma, basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. Melanoma is...
Neonatal pig hearts can heal from heart attack
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - While pigs still cannot fly, researchers have discovered that the hearts of newborn piglets do...
How many American cities protect the rights of employed breastfeeding mothers?
Of the 151 largest cities across the United States, only Philadelphia and New York City have legislation that protects a...
BioOne Complete welcomes back popular titles for 2019
WASHINGTON, DC - August 15, 2018 : BioOne (about.BioOne.org) proudly announces the return of three popular journals and the addition...
A trained eye
We humans are pros at category learning -- the process by which we classify things, whether objects, concepts or events,...
PARP inhibitor improves progression-free survival in patients with advanced breast cancers
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center In a randomized, Phase III trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD...
How ugly marital spats might open the door to disease
Credit: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center COLUMBUS, Ohio - Married people who fight nastily are more likely to...
Emergency hospital visits more common among most deprived bowel cancer patients
Bowel cancer patients living in the most deprived areas have up to 13% higher proportions of emergency hospital admissions before...
UMN Medical School research shows it’s possible to reverse damage caused by aging cells
MINNEAPOLIS, MN- August 15, 2018 - What's the secret to aging well? University of Minnesota Medical School researchers have answered...
Common Wifi can detect weapons, bombs and chemicals in bags
Credit: Data Analysis and Information Security (DAISY) Lab led by Professor Yingying Chen Ordinary WiFi can easily detect weapons, bombs...
Parental life span predicts daughters living to 90 without chronic disease or disability
Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that women whose mothers lived to at least...
Better statistical methods to understand gene interactions leading to cancer development
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - Research led by Hui-Yi Lin, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics at...
Baycrest co-created Virtual Brain joins flagship neuroscience initiative in Europe
Credit: Michael Burgstahler, Two Tribes The Virtual Brain (TVB), an international brain-mapping platform co-developed by Baycrest researchers, has become part...
Mizzou program significantly reduces delay in autism diagnosis
Credit: MU News Bureau COLUMBIA, Mo. - When Katie New first suspected her son had autism, she had to wait...
Eating breakfast burns more carbs during exercise and accelerates metabolism for next meal
Credit: Javier Gonzalez Eating breakfast before exercise may "prime" the body to burn carbohydrates during exercise and more rapidly digest...
Optimizing airport flight patterns take a toll on human health
August 15, 2018 - Health costs associated with noise from changing flight patterns over populated urban landscapes far outweigh the...
Restoring blood flow may be best option to save your life and limb
DALLAS, Aug. 15, 2018 -- Treatments that restore blood flow to the lower limbs of people with a serious circulation...
Chips, light and coding moves the front line in beating bacteria
Credit: OIST The never-ending fight against bacteria has taken a turn in humanity's favor with the announcement of a tool...
Light-emitting nanoparticles could provide a safer way to image living cells
Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) A research team has demonstrated how light-emitting nanoparticles, developed at the U.S. Department...
