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Credit: HKBU The research team of Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) invented a medical device with a specific nanotechnology layer ...

Mechanism controlling multiple sclerosis risk identified

While the DNA sequence remains the same throughout a person's life, the expression of the encoded genes may change with ...

Lion conservation research can be bolstered by input from a wide-range of professionals

The conservation of lions, while maintaining the well-being of people that live around them, is a complex problem that should ...

Good primary lowers ED use for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities

TORONTO, June 19, 2018 - One in three adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) visit the emergency department annually ...

Bad habits that lead to cancer, chronic disease corrected by simple lifestyle intervention

Credit: Northwestern University CHICAGO --- Does this sound like someone you know? He or she spends too much time in ...

Deep-sea marine sponges may hold key to antibiotic drug resistance

Credit: FAU's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Drug resistance to antibiotics is on the rise and there is an urgent need ...

Michelson Prize awards $450k to young scientists advancing immunology and vaccine research

NEW YORK, June 19, 2018 - High risk, high reward scientific advancements require long-term flexible funding with a clear focus ...

New immunotherapy trial for children with central nervous system tumors opens

Credit: Seattle Children's SEATTLE - June 19, 2018 - Seattle Children's has opened a pioneering chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell ...

Mendelsohn shares Tang Prize for leadership in developing targeted therapy

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Targeted cancer therapy pioneer John Mendelsohn, M.D., researcher and former president of ...

Methadone and buprenorphine reduce risk of death after opioid overdose

(NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse) A National Institutes of Health-funded study found that treatment of opioid use disorder with either ...

Palm oil: The carbon cost of deforestation

(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Palm oil has become part of our daily lives, but a recent study by EPFL ...

Blood signature could improve early TB diagnosis

(The Francis Crick Institute) A gene signature in the bloodstream can reveal whether someone is going to develop active tuberculosis ...

Opioid dependence in patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis: More likely to occur before than after surgery

(Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group) Researchers investigated risk factors for the development of opioid dependence in patients undergoing surgery for ...

Children’s immune system could hold the key to preventing sepsis

(University of Sheffield) Scientists have identified the key response that children use to control infections.

Combining different malaria vaccines could reduce cases by 91 percent

(Imperial College London) Using two experimental anti-malarial vaccines, which work in different ways, can greatly reduce the number of malaria ...

Study suggests that diabetes can be accurately diagnosed from a single blood sample

(American College of Physicians) A combination of elevated fasting glucose and HbA1c levels from a single blood sample was found ...

‘Artificial blubber’ protects divers in frigid water

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A treatment that infuses a conventional neoprene wetsuit with a heavy inert gas can improve a ...

Why being left-handed matters for mental health treatment

(Cornell University) Treatment for the most common mental health problems could be ineffective or even detrimental to about 50 percent ...

Study finds reduction in sulfur emissions from power plants in China

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Air pollution has smothered China's cities in recent decades. In response, the Chinese government has implemented ...

Compilation of research discussed at the Global Forum On Nicotine: Warsaw, June 16, 2018