Gary J. Whitman named 122nd President of American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS)
New Orleans, LA | Leesburg, VA | May 1, 2022—Gary J. Whitman, MD of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has been appointed...
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ARRS Annual Meeting: COVID-19 Impact on Lung Cancer Screening in the Bronx
New Orleans, LA | Leesburg, VA | May 1, 2022—A Scientific E-Poster presented during the 2022 ARRS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA illustrated how...
A ‘beyond-quantum’ equivalence principle for superposition and entanglement
The physics of the microrealm involves two famous and bizarre concepts: The first is that prior to observation, it is impossible to know with certainty...
New cardiac defibrillator much safer for patients: Study
Hamilton, ON (April 30, 2022) – High-risk patients who need defibrillators to prevent cardiac arrest can experience fewer complications with a type of device implanted...
Breakthrough in treatment for Dupuytren’s disease
Researchers at the Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford, led by Professor Jagdeep Nanchahal have demonstrated the efficacy of the anti-TNF drug adalimumab for patients with...
How a soil microbe could rev up artificial photosynthesis
Plants rely on a process called carbon fixation – turning carbon dioxide from the air into carbon-rich biomolecules – for their very existence. That’s the...
New technique shows in detail where drug molecules hit their targets in the body
LA JOLLA, CA—Scientists at Scripps Research have invented a way to image, across different tissues and with higher precision than ever before, where drugs bind...
New model for antibacterial mechanism
UPTON, NY—Biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and their collaborators have discovered an aberrant protein that’s deadly to bacteria. In a...
A novel therapy ameliorates obesity and Type 2 diabetes in mice fed a high-fat diet
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A novel therapy developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham ameliorates obesity and Type 2 diabetes in mice fed a high-fat...
Controlling mirror images
Chirality, while not a rarity in the world of molecules, is nevertheless a special property. If a molecule is chiral (from the Greek word chiros...
Unlocking a cure for carbon monoxide poisoning
Carbon monoxide is an odorless and colorless gas made when fossil fuels burn incompletely. It’s also a silent killer.Credit: Droege & Johnstone Carbon monoxide is...
‘Eye-catching’ smartphone app could make it easy to screen for neurological disease at home
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a smartphone app that could allow people to screen for Alzheimer’s disease, ADHD and other...
Actigraphy shows promise as objective noninvasive measure of sleep-wake regulation in children with brain injury admitted for pediatric rehabilitation
East Hanover, NJ. April 29, 2022. A team of New Jersey researchers conducted a sleep study in inpatients in pediatric rehabilitation using an actigraph, a...
Study: Unprecedented increase in number of border wall falls and trauma
Since 2019, there has been a five-time increase in the number of high-severity injuries occurring at the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Southern San Diego. Trauma...
Stress, anxiety and depression during pregnancy may hinder toddler’s cognitive development
Women’s elevated anxiety, depression and stress during pregnancy altered key features of the fetal brain, which subsequently decreased their offspring’s cognitive development at 18 months....
