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Enhanced therapeutic vaccine platform achieves 2 proof-of-concepts in veterinary medical use
Credit: Antonia Fettelschoss-Gabriel / USZ Scientists from the Universities of Bern, Zurich and Oxford as well as the Latvian Biomedical...
Marker for cancer stem cells
Cells with stem-cell characteristics appear to be especially important in the formation and metastasis of tumors. Scientists have now developed...
Satellites, supercomputers, and machine learning provide real-time crop type data
Credit: Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Corn and soybean fields look similar from space - at least...
Diverse metals mix it up in novel nanoparticles
Credit: Will Kirk/JHU Researchers have learned to combine up to eight different metals in a single tiny, uniformly mixed nanoparticle....
Acupressure for menstrual pain
Can acupressure achieve a sustained reduction in menstrual pain? Is an app-based self-care program particularly attractive to young women? These...
Shaping behavior, not changing minds, more effective in boosting vaccination rates
AURORA, Colo. (April 4, 2018) - A comprehensive review of scientific literature surrounding the psychology of vaccinations has shown that...
Insilico to present the advances in AI for biomarker development of human aging
Credit: Insilico Medicine Wednesday, April 4th, 2018, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based company specializing in the application of...
An international study is the first large survey on epilepsy
An international research consortium used neuroimaging techniques to analyze the brains of more than 3,800 volunteers in different countries. The...
Frequency of skin cancer screening among indoor tanners
Bottom Line: Skin cancer screening is underused by indoor tanners. Why The Research Is Interesting: About 5 million skin cancers...
Tough situation after giving birth for women with type-1 diabetes
(University of Gothenburg) Holding a newborn baby -- and, at the same time, dealing with a blood sugar level that...
Boosting natural defenses to fight antibiotic-resistant pneumonia
Credit: Adobe Stock/Wikimedia Commons Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat in bacterial pneumonia. While immune-stimulating treatments can help the body...
Study: Get moving to get happier
ANN ARBOR---Physical activity has long been known to reduce depression and anxiety, and is commonly prescribed to prevent or cure...
Research shows first land plants were parasitized by microbes
Credit: Philip Carella By studying liverworts - which diverged from other land plants early in the history of plant evolution...
Tourniquet practice adopted from the military saves lives and limbs in civilians
CHICAGO (April 4, 2018): Civilian trauma medicine has adopted many methods and techniques that have been developed and tested on...
Mental disorder rates differ by immigration status and ethnicity of American adolescents
Immigrant youth from specific racial-ethnic groups in the USA tend to have lower rates of certain mental disorders compared to...
Freedom and flexibility: Thinking outside the cell for functional genomics
Over the past two decades, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science...
Are high-risk anticholinergic medicines prescribed too often for older adults?
Anticholinergics are a class of medications that are often prescribed for allergies, lung disease, and urinary incontinence. They also often...
NIH hosts largest ever BRAIN Initiative meeting
What: More than 1,000 cutting-edge researchers from around the country will spend three days in Bethesda, Maryland talking about the...
How does HIV escape cellular booby traps?
Credit: Kyoto University / Sato Lab Human immunodeficiency virus -- HIV -- is believed to have evolved from a simian...
Are children of married first cousins at increased risk of common mood disorders, psychoses?
Bottom Line: Being a child of married first cousins was associated with a higher likelihood of receiving medicine for common...
