Opportunities to improve lung cancer care for older patients
“With the majority of lung cancer patients being older than 65, it is imperative that actions are taken to encourage and facilitate clinical trials among...
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UNF receives substantial legislative funding to combat nursing shortage
The University of North Florida has been awarded matching State legislative funding of nearly $800K based upon the School of Nursing's (SON) successful healthcare partnerships...
Lack of financial planning linked to higher risk of death in US and UK
People who are less socioeconomically advantaged have lower life expectancies, with a number of possible underlying mechanisms, such as less ability to spend on healthcare...
Researchers discover disease-causing stem cells in lungs of cystic fibrosis patients
Two nationally recognized experts in cloning and stem cell science from the University of Houston, Wa Xian and Frank McKeon, are reporting that five lung...
How liver cells become scarring, and worse
Hepatic fibrosis occurs when scar tissue replaces damaged cells in the liver. Over time, accumulating scarring distorts the liver, interferes with its blood supply and...
Insilico Medicine discovers novel dual targets for aging and disease using Microsoft BioGPT
As the cornerstone of popular chatbots including GPT-4, large language models (LLMs) trained on vast amounts of text data have been contributing to advances in...
Does form follow function? Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers advance understanding of why cell parts look the way they do
Scientists have long understood that parts of cells, called organelles, evolved to have certain shapes and sizes because their forms are closely related to how...
Powering the quantum revolution: Quantum engines on the horizon
Quantum mechanics is a branch of physics that explores the properties and interactions of iparticles at very small scale, such as atoms and molecules. This...
Antimatter embraces Earth, falling downward like normal matter
For those still holding out hope that antimatter levitates rather than falls in a gravitational field, like normal matter, the results of a new experiment...
Down goes antimatter! Gravity’s effect on matter’s elusive twin is revealed
If you dropped antimatter, would it fall down or up? In a unique laboratory experiment, researchers have now observed the downward path taken by individual...
Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water
Engineers at MIT and in China are aiming to turn seawater into drinking water with a completely passive device that is inspired by the ocean,...
Stemming the tide of antibiotic resistance – researchers shed light on the complexities of hospital wastewater treatment
In a paper published in the Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, a multidisciplinary team including biologists, chemists, chemical engineers, and environmental scientists have investigated...
Protecting lands slows biodiversity loss among vertebrates by five times
Protecting large swaths of Earth’s land can help stem the tide of biodiversity loss—including for vertebrates like amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds, according to a...
Selenium vacancies regulate d-band centers in Ni3Se4 toward paired electrolysis in anion-exchange membrane electrolyzers for upgrading N-containing compounds
This study is led by Prof. Feng Fu (Research Institute of Comprehensive Energy Industry Technology, College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Yan’an University). The experiments...
Flour-derived borocarbonitride enriched with boron-oxygen species for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane to olefins
This study is led by Prof. Zhen Zhao (State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,...
