Long-term trauma outcomes heavily impacted by gender and education level
Researchers find sociodemographic factors more predictive of worse outcomes than injury severity Trauma is a leading cause of disability in ...
New measure of equality reveals a fuller picture of male well-being
Measurement tool acknowledges the challenges men face that researchers say have been underestimated in some countries Researchers from the University ...
A 'bran' new way to preserve healthy food with natural ingredients
Credit: Ben Chrisfield A natural antioxidant found in grain bran could preserve food longer and replace synthetic antioxidants currently used ...
For experts in aging, a new take on learning to lead with Tideswell-AGS-ADGAP ELIA program
Credit: (C) 2019, Tideswell at UCSF, the American Geriatrics Society (AGS), and the Association of Directors of Geriatrics Academic Programs ...
DNA on auto-pilot
Credit: The Biodesign Institute at ASU Nature has made extravagant use of a simple molecule--DNA, the floorplan of all earthly ...
Artificial intelligence advances threaten privacy of health data
Study finds current laws and regulations do not safeguard individuals' confidential health information Advances in artificial intelligence have created new ...
Slime proves valuable in developing method for counting salmon in Alaska
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Scientists have published a novel method for counting Pacific salmon - analyzing DNA from the slime the ...
The transgenic key to more productive crops
Transgenic tobacco plants engineered with synthetic metabolic pathways designed to bypass the inefficient and costly side effects of natural photorespiration ...
Does mountaintop removal also remove rattlesnakes?
Mining operations in Appalachia permanently alter habitat availability for rattlesnakesCredit: Photo courtesy of Thomas Maigret. On the Cumberland Plateau in ...
OSU Wexner Medical Center first in US to implant device for knee osteoarthritis
Credit: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Surgeons at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center are the first ...
BabySeq project explores impacts of genetic disease testing in newborns
In the 1960s, doctors began screening newborns for a metabolic condition called phenylketonuria (PKU). Since then, dozens of other diseases ...
Laryngeal symptoms may be caused by cranial nerve 9 and 10 compression at the brain stem
While a sudden coughing fit is a protective reflex to clear the airway, chronic cough can be caused by multiple ...
Gut immune cells cut inflammation in multiple sclerosis
Credit: Jim Oldfield Researchers at the University of Toronto and UC San Francisco have discovered that the intestine is the ...
DNA design that anyone can do
Computer program can translate a free-form 2-D drawing into a DNA structure Researchers at MIT and Arizona State University have ...
Egg metabolites in blood related to lower risk of type 2 diabetes
Consumption of one egg every day seems to associate with a blood metabolite profile that is related to a lower ...
Cancer cells steer a jagged path
Rice, Duke researchers define a small protein's central role in tumor mechanicsCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University A jagged little protein appears ...
Sandia microneedles technique may mean quicker diagnoses of major illnesses
Exposure to chemical and biological attacks more rapidly determinedCredit: Randy Montoya, Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- When people are ...
Bulldogs' screw tails linked to human genetic disease
Credit: Katy Robertson With their small size, stubby faces and wide-set eyes, bulldogs, French bulldogs and Boston terriers are among ...
An errant editing enzyme promotes tumor suppressor loss and leukemia propagation
Credit: National Institutes of Health Writing in the January 3 issue of Cancer Cell, researchers at University of California San ...
Researchers locate the body's largest cell receptor
A giant toadstool that swallow up vitamins and nutrients. This is how the receptor, which e.g. absorbs B12 vitamin, looks. ...
