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Pew awards Fellowships to promising Latin American scientists
PHILADELPHIA--The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today the 2018 class of Pew Latin American Fellows in the Biomedical Sciences. The 10...
There’s Waldo!
From looking for Waldo to finding your cellphone on a cluttered kitchen table, we are continuously engaged in visual searches....
A sprinkle of platinum nanoparticles onto graphene makes brain probes more sensitive
Credit: Yichen Lu Graphene electrodes could enable higher quality imaging of brain cell activity thanks to new research by a...
Pancreatic cancer patients with BRCA mutation may benefit from targeted drug
Credit: University of Arizona Cancer Center A physician-scientist at the University of Arizona Cancer Center investigated a novel treatment for...
American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) 60th Annual Meeting in San Antonio, October 21-24
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) will host its 60th Annual Meeting at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center...
Certain eye conditions in children may affect performance on timed, standardized tests
Bottom Line: Children with eye conditions commonly referred to as lazy eye and crossed eyes were slower at marking answers...
Significant increase in self-harm attempts following ankylosing spondylitis diagnosis
The results of a population study presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2018) demonstrate a significantly...
Racial differences uncovered in debilitating itchy skin condition
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine An international team led by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers has conducted what is believed to be...
EEG can determine if a depressed patient will do better on antidepressants or talk therapy
People react differently to positive events in their lives. For some, a small reward can have a large impact on...
New research in Kenya finds sweet spot for harvesting reef fish
Credit: E. Darling/WCS NEW YORK (June 13, 2018)-- An age-old challenge of determining the right amount of fish to harvest...
Antarctic fungi found to be effective against citrus canker
Credit: Daiane Cristina Sass (IB-UNESP) A research team at the São Paulo State University's Bioscience Institute (IB-UNESP) in Rio Claro,...
Patients prefer to have cancer screenings despite risks and warnings
Credit: MU News Bureau A large proportion of the American public opts to receive cancer screenings with the hope that...
Cryo-EM reveals interaction between major drug targets
Credit: Courtesy of the Xu Laboratory, Van Andel Research Institute GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (June 13, 2018) -- For the first...
ISB develops stress test to predict how diatoms will react to ocean acidification
SEATTLE, June 13, 2018 -- Researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) have shown that diatoms can withstand population...
Seeking new relationships with invasive species
With summer nearly here in North America, we often hear about invasive plants popping up in undesirable locations, "colonizing" different...
Genetic soil prospecting yields wealth of potential antibiotics
Credit: Zosia Rostomian image, Berkeley Lab. Soil, the source of our best antibiotics, can be more thoroughly mined for new...
UGA and UConn Health researchers discover roles and teamwork of CRISPR-Cas proteins
Credit: UGA Recently published research from the University of Georgia and UConn Health provides new insight about the basic biological...
Muscle growth in the computer: international team wants to unravel the formation of myofibrils
Credit: Katharina Knaut How the bicep tenses is no longer a secret. In every muscle cell there are so-called myofibrils,...
Periodontal cell sheet technique promotes bone and ligament formation on dental implant
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 11, 2018--Researchers used periodontal ligament (PDL)-derived stem cells to create...
E- textiles control home appliances with the swipe of a finger (video)
Credit: American Chemical Society Electronic textiles could allow a person to control household appliances or computers from a distance simply...