Stop antibiotics before resistance ‘tipping point’
Treatments using antibiotics should stop as soon as possible to prevent patients passing the "tipping point" of becoming resistant to ...
New ‘scaly’ snails species group following striking discoveries from Malaysian Borneo
Credit: Siti Khadijah Reduan Six new species of unique land snails whose shells are covered with what look like scales ...
Finding a weak link in the frightful parasite Schistosoma
Credit: Bo Wang, Stanford University The parasitic disease schistosomiasis is one of the developing world's worst public health scourges, affecting ...
Ban plastic to save the heritage of world’s oldest and largest inhabited river island
Credit: Queen's University Belfast A Queen's University Belfast researcher is working with an Indian community to transform the world's largest ...
The relationship between alcohol outlets and traffic crashes
A new study by the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation examines the relationship between ...
Purdue startup developing novel treatment for life-threatening lung condition
Credit: Davis Arick, Spirrow Therapeutics WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University-affiliated startup developing a novel treatment for a life-threatening ...
California’s cap-and-trade air quality benefits mostly go out of state
Credit: Tony Webster, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) During the first three years of California's five-year-old cap-and-trade program, the bulk ...
New report says individual research results should be shared with participants more often
WASHINGTON - When conducting research involving the testing of human biospecimens, investigators and their institutions should routinely consider whether and ...
Biochemists discover cause of genome editing failures with hyped CRISPR system
Credit: Ryan Clarke, et al Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago are the first to describe why CRISPR ...
Barbara B. Kahn, M.D. receives 2019 FASEB Excellence in Science Award
Credit: BIDMC Barbara B. Kahn, MD, will receive the 2019 FASEB Excellence in Science Award. Kahn is Vice Chair for ...
Researchers prevent, reverse renal injury by inhibiting immune-regulating molecule
Special cells called podocytes aid the kidneys as they clean the blood and balance the body's fluid levels. Podocytes filter ...
Carbon is the new black
Credit: Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative Services Engineers with the University of Cincinnati are leveraging a partnership with Wright-Patterson Air Force ...
The ‘Big Bang’ of Alzheimer’s: Scientists ID genesis of disease
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - July 10, 2018 - Scientists have discovered a "Big Bang" of Alzheimer's disease - the ...
Can nanoparticles be used to lower antibiotic resistance?
Credit: University of Houston Antibiotic resistance is one of the world's most serious threats to public health, forcing the use ...
Differences in the mouths of youth born with HIV may increase their risk of dental decay
A team of scientists from The Forsyth Institute, a global leader in oral health research, in collaboration with the NIH-funded ...
Patients with early kidney cancer benefit from robotic partial nephrectomy
Credit: Ricardo Carrasco III LOS ANGELES - For patients with early kidney cancer, removing part of the kidney instead of ...
Living in areas with less sun may increase your risk of OCD
Credit: Binghamton University, State University at New York BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Living at higher latitudes, where there is also less ...
UA researchers preparing for quick radiation diagnostic test in case of a nuclear disaster
Credit: Sun Czar Belous, UA College of Medicine - Phoenix Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - ...
Wider access to HIV prevention drugs still needed
Credit: San Francisco State University Despite highly effective anti-HIV pharmaceuticals having been used worldwide for almost a decade, HIV (human ...
New human study: Short-term improved vascular function after consuming red raspberries
Credit: The National Processed Raspberry Council A recent randomized controlled trial, published in the Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, provides ...
