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Late teen years are key period for bone growth
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, July 6, 2017--The late adolescent years are an important period for gaining bone mineral,...
Role of cooperativity in hydrophobic interactions revealed in real-time monitoring
Credit: Department of Chemistry, HKUST Hydrophobic interactions is one major type of intermolecular force that plays a vital role in...
Controlled temperature change inside ear can prevent migraines
The application of gentle cooling and warming currents inside the ear canal can provide relief for migraine sufferers, new research...
Data journalist, statistics and neuroscience professor, historical icon to speak at JSM 2017
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (July 6, 2017) - Only weeks away, the world's largest annual gathering of statisticians and data scientists -...
Steroids may do more harm than good in some cases of severe asthma
PITTSBURGH, July 6, 2017 - Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences and UPMC have uncovered...
New ways to create and deliver medications for immune-medicated neuropathies
Researchers at LSTM are looking at new ways to create and deliver medications for a wide range of immune-medicated neuropathies,...
Hospital discharge program improves patient experience leaving the hospital
BOSTON-- A standardized, in-hospital discharge planning program, known as Project ReEngineered Dishcharge (RED), improves patient experience as they leave the...
Novel PET tracer detects small blood clots
Credit: Piramal Imaging GmbH, Berlin Germany RESTON, Va. ?- Blood clots in veins and arteries can lead to heart attack,...
Antibodies halt placental transmission of CMV-like virus in monkeys
Credit: Alisa Weigandt for Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- Long before the Zika virus became a global fear, cytomegalovirus, or...
Birds’ migration genes are conditioned by geography
The genetic make-up of a willow warbler determines where it will migrate when winter comes. Studies of willow warblers in...
Nearly half of China cancer deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors
A new report finds more than half of all cancer deaths in men in 2013 in China and more than...
A biophysical smoking gun
While much about Alzheimer's disease remains a mystery, scientists do know that part of the disease's progression involves a normal...
International cancer research conference organised by A*STAR and NCCS
Singapore, 5 July 2017 - One of the largest cancer research conferences in the world, the 17th International p53 Workshop,...
Your hands may reveal the struggle to maintain self-control
COLUMBUS, Ohio - It takes just a few seconds to choose a cookie over an apple and wreck your diet...
New study identifies gene that could play key role in depression
Globally, depression affects more than 300 million people annually. Nearly 800,000 die from suicide every year -- it is the...
Antioxidants against sepsis
During sepsis, cells are swamped with reactive oxygen species generated in an aberrant response of the immune system to a...
QUT develops golden bananas high in pro-vitamin A
Credit: Patria Janides, QUT The decade-long research, led by Distinguished Professor James Dale, involved extensive laboratory tests at QUT as...
Bringing precision to Medicare cancer care
Medicare policies governing cancer patients' end-of-life care are based on generalized statistics -- such as average survival time and treatment...
Watch cancer spread in a mouse
Credit: Hiroki R. Ueda et al. Researchers in Japan have developed a method to image cancer at the single-cell level...
Bowel cancer diagnosis delayed by other illness
The researchers from the University of Exeter analysed clinical data from over 4,500 patients across the UK who were later...
