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April 3, 2026

Quality improvement measures cut hospital readmissions but do not always produce savings

LOS ANGELES (May 30, 2017) -- Efforts to reduce hospital readmissions are working, but they're not always saving money, according...

Subduing the rebellion: Unmasking rogue cells in the immune system

Credit: OIST The immune system is a formidable defense against microbial intruders, identifying and eliminating the threats through an extremely...

Gender and homicide: Important trends across four decades

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 30, 2017-A comprehensive review of four decades of national homicide...

Diabetes linked to bacteria invading the colon, study finds

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--In humans, developing metabolic disease, particularly type 2 diabetes, is correlated with having bacteria that penetrate...

The next enchanted ring?

Credit: Wencewicz The active component of the wonder drug penicillin and related antibiotics such as the cephalosporins is an "enchanted...

New antibiotic packs a punch against bacterial resistance

LA JOLLA, CA - May 29, 2017 - Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have given new superpowers to...

Hotspots show that vegetation alters climate by up to 30 percent

Credit: Xi Yang/University of Virginia New York, NY -- May 29, 2017 -- A new Columbia Engineering study, led by...

Toward an HIV cure: Pitt team develops test to detect hidden virus

PITTSBURGH, May 29, 2017 - The quest to develop a cure for HIV has long been plagued by a seemingly...

Graphene and quantum dots put in motion a CMOS-integrated camera that can see the invisible

Credit: ICFO/ D. Bartolome Over the past 40 years, microelectronics have advanced by leaps and bounds thanks to silicon and...

Squeezing every drop of fresh water from waste brine

Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Engineers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a new way to recover...

‘Heat island’ effect could double climate change costs for world’s cities

Overheated cities face climate change costs at least twice as big as the rest of the world because of the...

Climate change can alter the impact of forest pathogens in trees

Credit: Riikka Linnakoski New research on projected climate changes from the University of Helsinki indicates that climate change has an...

Vision keeps maturing until mid-life

HAMILTON, ON, May 29, 2017 - The visual cortex, the human brain's vision-processing centre that was previously thought to mature...

Detailed view of a molecular toxin transporter

Credit: ETH Zurich / Scott Jackson, Ioannis Manolaridis, Kaspar Locher Almost all living creatures have evolved mechanisms to remove toxins...

How the visual cortex changes from birth to old age

A study of post-mortem brain tissue reveals the human primary visual cortex (V1) develops gradually throughout life. The research, published...

Study finds greater risk of extinction among high diversity amphibian groups

Credit: SFU A new study by Simon Fraser University biologists Dan Greenberg and Arne Mooers offers clues to why more...

High-fat diet alters reward system in rats

Exposure to high-fat diet from childhood may increase the sensitivity of the dopamine system later in adulthood, according to a...

Keep your balance — even in old age

Credit: Neurogeriatrics Research Group, Kiel University Balance problems when standing and walking are ubiquitous in the older population, and can...

Connecting the dots between dreams and brain disease

Dr. John Peever at the University of Toronto has been working to answer one of humanity's greatest questions: how do...

New discovery: Cormorants can hear under water