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Study finds promise in new tactic to curb obesity: Address physician bias
CHICAGO, July 31, 2017-- An educational initiative at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine is reducing medical students' negative attitudes...
Advancing public engagement at the Ecological Society of America
Credit: Courtesy Caitlin Weber With the growing concern for global and local environmental issues, ecologists in academia, agencies and the...
Successful prediction of multi-year US droughts and wildfire risk
The next mega-droughts and subsequent active wildfire seasons for the western U.S. might be predictable a full year in advance,...
Toward a better sweat test for babies with cystic fibrosis
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an incurable genetic disease in which patients have chronic lung infections. The sooner CF is diagnosed,...
Into a competitive world, guppies are born not just bigger, but more mature
Credit: Terry Dial PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Throughout nature, moms engage in a trade-off: Churn out a bevy of offspring and...
Biomedical researcher gets $1.9 million to study influenza vaccines and cross protective immunity
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Dr. Sang-Moo Kang, professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has renewed...
Researchers build a patch to help cardiac muscle beat more strongly after a heart attack
Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute A research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has been awarded a $452,000 National Institutes of...
Methane-eating bacteria in lake deep beneath Antarctic ice
Credit: Ken Markoff An interdisciplinary team of researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) has concluded that bacteria in...
An evolutionary breakpoint in cell division
Credit: Osaka University Japanese researchers from Osaka University have discovered that the interaction between two proteins, M18BP1/KNL2 and CENP-A, is...
P-values, hypotheses and inference … new appraoches to reproducibility at JSM 2017
BALTIMORE, Md. (July 30, 2017) - Amid the increased quantification of scientific research and a proliferation of large, complex data...
Nature provides a key to repelling liquids
Credit: Reproduced with permission from ref 1.© 2017 American Chemical Society Inspired by nature, an inexpensive green technique that enables...
FSU researchers listen to birdsong, unlock mysteries of brain
Credit: (Photo: FSU Photography Services) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The term "birdbrain" has been part of our lexicon for about a...
Cancer cells put the brakes on immune system
The degenerated cells cause an inflammatory reaction and influence other blood cells with it so much, that the immune system...
Understanding the impact of childhood cancer rates across sub-Saharan Africa
Collated Childhood cancer statistics in sub Saharan Africa have been published for the first time as a monograph in the...
2 methods to de-identify large patient datasets greatly reduced risk of re-identification
Bottom Line: Two de-identification methods, k-anonymization and adding a "fuzzy factor," significantly reduced the risk of re-identification of patients in...
World Hepatitis Day sets the stage for the elimination of viral hepatitis
Today, World Hepatitis Day, marks the first time that the global health community has come together to officially begin moving...
Sleep or sex? How the fruit fly decides
Choosing between sex or sleep presents a behavioral quandary for many species, including the fruit fly. A multi-institution team has...
Researchers discover how human cells maintain the correct number of chromosomes
Credit: Queen Mary University of London Cell division is an essential process in humans, animals and plants as dying or...
‘Missing lead’ in Flint water pipes confirms cause of crisis
ANN ARBOR--A study of lead service lines in Flint's damaged drinking water system reveals a Swiss cheese pattern in the...
Type 1 diabetes trial at halfway point
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -The Sanford Project: T-Rex Study, a Phase 2 clinical trial conducted collaboratively by Sanford Health and Caladrius...
