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UA part of international alliance to address African antivenom crisis
Credit: UA Health Sciences Venomous snakebites kill an estimated 150,000 people around the world each year -- amid severe shortages...
Pharmacists with greater role in care prevent repeat hospital visits
Pharmacists given an expanded role in patient oversight can reduce the likelihood of high-risk patients returning to the hospital, according...
Computer simulation of protein synthesis reveals awesome complexity of cell machinery
Credit: Osaka University Osaka - Life depends on proteins. These molecules are produced continually in our cells, which act as...
Better barcoding: New library of DNA sequences improves plant identification
Credit: Dr. Karen L. Bell The ability to identify individual plant species from tiny amounts of material has a surprising...
Nanocages for gold particles: What is happening inside?
Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology In living organisms, free metal ions are stored and transported through proteins assembled into highly...
Novel nozzle saves crystals
Credit: Credit: Dominik Oberthuer, DESY Scientists are interested in the spatial structure of proteins, as it reveals much about the...
Kappa Delta awards honor innovative orthopaedic research
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (March 16, 2017) - The Kappa Delta Sorority and the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) today...
DeepMind-Royal Free deal is ‘cautionary tale’ for health care in the algorithmic age
Researchers studying a deal in which Google's artificial intelligence subsidiary, DeepMind, acquired access to millions of sensitive NHS patient records...
Deep learning and stock trading
A study undertaken by researchers at the School of Business and Economics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has shown that computer...
The need for speed may contribute to dolphin and whale strandings
Surviving in an environment that actively impedes your progress can leave you vulnerable when escape is necessary; couple this with...
Glioblastoma clinical trial shows combined therapy extends life for patients 65 and older
Loading video... Credit: UHN (TORONTO, Canada - March 16, 2017) - Treating older patients who have malignant brain cancer with...
Researchers develop groundbreaking process for creating ultra-selective separation membranes
Credit: University of Minnesota A team of researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, has developed a groundbreaking one-step, crystal...
How to conserve polar bears — and maintain subsistence harvest — under climate change
Polar bears are listed as a threatened species as the ice-covered ocean they depend on for hunting and transportation becomes...
UMass Amherst climate expert will study the Arctic’s changing conditions
Credit: National Science Foundation/Kenneth Dunton AMHERST, Mass. - University of Massachusetts Amherst climate scientist Michael Rawlins has received a five-year,...
New eyeless, pale catfish from middle of Amazon named
Credit: Courtesy of Mark Sabaj/Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. You've just discovered a unique, eyeless catfish from the...
UNC researchers make discovery that could increase plant yield in wake of looming phosph
Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have pinpointed a key genetic switch that helps soil bacteria...
Like elephants, large working proteins have small handlers
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - A graduate student's surprise observation in fundamental experiments with small binding molecules at work...
New driver, target in advanced mucosal melanoma
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Not all melanomas are created equal. While most melanomas appear on the skin as...
Dartmouth researchers use new computational method to define immune cell interactions
Credit: Frederick S. Varn Immunotherapy, harnessing a patient's immune system to help fight cancer, has shown much promise as a...
Scientists identify a black hole choking on stardust
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In the center of a distant galaxy, almost 300 million light years from Earth, scientists have discovered...