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How do you assess pain in children who can’t express themselves? New research identifies priorities in identifying pain in nonverbal children with medical complexity
August 2, 2018 - Pain is a frequent problem for children with complex medical conditions -but many of them are...
Study reveals early warning signs of heart problems in patients with newly diagnosed lupus
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death in patients with lupus, a systemic autoimmune disease. In a new study...
MGH team defines the mechanisms of action of key genetic abnormality in Ewing sarcoma
A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team has used epigenome editing tools to investigate how the genetic abnormality that drives...
pH imbalance in brain cells may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: Hari Prasad Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found new evidence in lab-grown mouse brain cells, called astrocytes,...
Big-data study pinpoints more than 150 genes associated with atrial fibrillation
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Drawing on genomic data from more than one million individuals, researchers from the University of Michigan...
Newly discovered crossbill species numbers few
Credit: C.W. Benkman As might be expected for a recently discovered bird species in the continental United States - only...
DIY robots help marine biologists discover new deep-sea dwellers
Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute While the cold and airless deep sea is inhabitable for humans, it is filled with delicate...
Harmful dyes in lakes, rivers can become colorless with new, sponge-like material
Credit: Kiyomi Taguchi/University of Washington Dyes are widely used in industries such as textiles, cosmetics, food processing, papermaking and plastics....
Chirality switching in biomineral structures
Researchers at McGill University have discovered a mechanism by which helical biomineral structures can be synthesized to spiral clockwise or...
Computer simulations predict the spread of HIV
Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., August 1, 2018 -- In a recently published study in the journal...
What can the herpesvirus teach us about oral inflammation?
Credit: UIC/Chris Bevel A $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help University of Illinois at Chicago...
Microscopic imaging pierces the ‘black box’ of cancer bone metastasis
Scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have engineered a system allowing microscopic monitoring and imaging of...
NSF backs strategy to reconstruct cancer cells’ evolution
Credit: Mika Nakhleh The National Science Foundation has awarded two grants for a combined $1.5 million to Rice University computational...
Muslim, Protestant scientists most likely to experience, perceive religious discrimination
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Aug. 1, 2018) - Muslim and Protestant scientists are more likely than other U.S....
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