Dr. Gary M. Shaw receives the SPR’s Douglas K. Richardson award
Credit: Dr. Gary M. Shaw The Society for Pediatric Research (SPR) is pleased to announce Gary M. Shaw, DrPH, as the recipient of the SPR's 2020...
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Health and Technology District partners with Music Heals and SFU on mental health study
Mental health study combines music therapy and functional brain imagingCredit: SFU ImageTech Lab Surrey, B.C., Canada (January 31, 2020) The Health and Technology District has...
Get easily out of breath? It may be because you were small at birth, study finds
Credit: Karolinska Institutet Babies born with low birth weights are more likely to have poor cardiorespiratory fitness later in life than their normal-weight peers. That...
Choice of anesthesia may affect breast cancer metastases
Credit: Stony Brook University STONY BROOK, NY, January 29, 2020 - A new study led by Stony Brook University Cancer Center researchers to be published...
Zoo improvements should benefit all animals
Credit: Paul Rose Zoo improvements should benefit all animals and include a wide range of "enrichment" techniques, researchers say. Zoos have made great advances in...
Could resetting our internal clocks help control diabetes?
Researchers from UNIGE and HUG were able to demonstrate the link between disturbances of the circadian clocks in pancreatic cells and type 2 diabetes, then...
Shriners affiliation, fertility research, and microbiome paper
The Jackson Laboratory announces research affiliation with Shriners Hospital, publishes fertility paper in Genes & Development, and publishes microbiome paper in CellCredit: Tiffany Laufer, The...
Obesity Medicine Association announces key updates to its 2020 Adult Obesity Algorithm
Identified as the most common cause of prevalent patient conditions, updates help clinicians better address chronic disease of obesityCredit: Obesity Medicine Association DENVER, COLO. --...
UW’s new WE-REACH center to accelerate development of biomedical discoveries
Credit: University of Washington With $4 million in matching funds from the National Institutes of Health, the University of Washington has created a new integrated...
AIAA announces 2020 International Student Conference winners
Ohio State, UT San Antonio, GATech among winnersCredit: AIAA The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is pleased to announce the 2020 International Student...
Machine learning technique speeds up crystal structure determination
Credit: Vecchio lab/Science Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a computer-based method that could make it less labor-intensive to determine the...
Bacteria engineered to protect bees from pests and pathogens
Credit: Alex Wild/University of Texas at Austin Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin report in the journal Science that they have developed a...
Imaging study of key viral structure shows how HIV drugs work at atomic level
Salk Institute findings will help inform the development of new and improved treatments for HIVCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(January 30, 2020) Salk scientists have discovered...
A quantum of solid
Credit: © Lorenzo Magrini, Yuriy Coroli/University of Vienna It is well known that quantum properties of individual atoms can be controlled and manipulated by laser...
Hemp ‘goes hot’ due to genetics, not growing conditions
Credit: Justin James Muir/Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - As the hemp industry grows, producers face the risk of cultivating a crop that can become unusable...
