Stem cell therapy improves outcomes in severe heart failure
CHICAGO (April 4, 2016) — A new stem cell therapy significantly improved long-term health outcomes in patients with severe and ...
‘The mountains can drive us to madness’
Credit: Katharina Huefner A mountaineer thinks he is being pursued, starts talking nonsense or changes his route without rhyme or ...
Fatal attractions for disease-carrying mosquitoes
Credit: Photo by Jesse Saroli, ISCA Technologies Mosquitoes, mostly through the transmission of malaria, are the deadliest animals on Earth. ...
Loved one’s death could spur aggressive measures against breast cancer
Credit: Ohio State COLUMBUS, Ohio – A woman's memories of a loved one's experience with cancer could play a significant ...
Popular sungazer lizards under threat from poaching
Credit: Shivan Parusnath/Wits University The Sungazer (Smaug giganteus), a dragon-like lizard species endemic to the Highveld regions of South Africa, ...
Blood pressure medicine may improve conversational skills of individuals with autism
IMAGE: University of Missouri researchers have found that a medication commonly used to treat high blood pressure and irregular heartbeats ...
Taking a closer look at online social networking and depression
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2016 New Rochelle, NY, November 28, 2016–While frequency and duration of online social networking ...
Flexible ‘skin’ can help robots, prosthetics perform everyday tasks by sensing shear force
Credit: UCLA Engineering If a robot is sent to disable a roadside bomb — or delicately handle an egg while ...
How liver cancer develops
Credit: USZ Liver cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related death and represents the fastest rising cancer worldwide. In most ...
AAP counsels pediatricians to focus on clusters of cardiometabolic risk factors to help…
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON — Because obesity affects one in six U.S. children and adolescents, there is a ...
Still changing after all these years
EAST LANSING, Mich. – If Paul Simon were to write a song about the bacteria in Richard Lenski's long-term evolution ...
Study advances potential test to sort out precancerous pancreatic cysts from harmless ones
In a "look-back" analysis of data stored on 130 patients with pancreatic cysts, scientists at Johns Hopkins have used gene-based ...
Deadly parasite messaging tactic may help curb sleeping sickness
Professor Keith Matthews, of the School of Biological Sciences New insight into sleeping sickness suggests communication between parasites that cause ...
HKU and international researchers promote marine fisheries reform in China
Credit: Cheng Tai-sing A study highlighting the challenges and opportunities of fishery management in China has just been released in ...
Researchers explore how Zika infection causes microcephaly
Credit: Courtesy Dr. Zhang BETHESDA, MD – Infection with Zika virus disrupts fetal brain development by interfering with the proliferation ...
Some bats develop resistance to devastating fungal disease
Credit: J. R. Hoyt Bat populations in some places in North America appear to have developed resistance to the deadly ...
A virus lethal to amphibians is spreading across Portugal
Credit: Gonçalo M. Rosa A new strain of ranavirus is currently causing mass mortality in several species of amphibian in ...
Parent misconceptions may hinder child organ donation
Credit: C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Children in need of an organ ...
Scientists reveal new and improved genome sequence of Daphnia pulex
Credit: Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame For many, experience with Daphnia, commonly known as water fleas, ends in high school. ...
The first urban park butterfly study in HK: HKU ecologists reveal…
Credit: The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong is home to a dazzling diversity of over 250 butterfly species, many ...
