Whether wheat weathers heat waves
Credit: Piotr Trebicki A heat wave sweeps through a city and people swelter, running indoors to find air conditioning. But crops out in a field...
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IASLC issues statement paper on liquid biopsy for lung cancer
DENVER - The lungs can be a difficult organ to biopsy with a needle, so the promise of identifying lung cancer through a blood-based biopsy...
New ‘e-dermis’ brings sense of touch, pain to prosthetic hands
Credit: Science Robotics/AAAS Amputees often experience the sensation of a "phantom limb"--a feeling that a missing body part is still there. That sensory illusion is...
American Psychological Association’s 126th Annual Convention Aug. 9 – 12, 2018, San Francisco
The American Psychological Association's 126th annual convention will take place Aug. 9-12, 2018, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The opening session will feature...
DNA barcodes that reliably work: A game-changer for biomedical research
Credit: Richard Wheeler (Zephyris). Used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. In the same way that barcodes on your groceries help stores know what's...
Rhesus macaque model offers route to study Zika brain pathology
Rhesus macaque monkeys infected in utero with Zika virus develop similar brain pathology to human infants, according to a report by researchers at the California...
Emergency department patients want to be invited to share in medical decision-making
DES PLAINES, IL--Most emergency department patients want to be involved in some aspects of medical decision-making, but they need to be invited. These are the...
Cell-free DNA profiling informative way to monitor urinary tract infections
ITHACA, N.Y. - Using shotgun DNA sequencing, Cornell University researchers have demonstrated a new method for monitoring urinary tract infections (UTIs) that surpasses traditional methods...
UA researchers develop novel ‘lung-on-a-leaf’ model to study pulmonary diseases
Credit: UA College of Medicine - Phoenix Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix have developed a revolutionary "lung on a...
The World’s tiniest first responders
Credit: Yekaterina Kadyshevskaya, USC The cell has its own paramedic team and emergency room to aid and repair damaged DNA, a new USC Dornsife study...
In mice, stem cells seem to work in fighting obesity! What about stem cells in humans?
Obesity is an increasing global health problem associated with several comorbidities and a high risk of mortality. A wide spectrum of interventions has been proposed...
Rare in-vivo study shows weak brain nodes have strong influence on memory network
Our ability to learn, remember, problem solve, and speak are all cognitive functions related to different parts of our brain. If researchers can identify how...
Potential to replace race as a risk factor for kidney-transplant failure
Credit: Children's National Health System Right now, more than 100,000 adult and pediatric patients in the U.S. are waiting for a life-saving kidney donation. Thirteen...
New therapeutic opportunity for the treatment of resistant malignant melanoma
(University of Liege) Researchers have revealed that malignant melanoma can reprogram their protein synthesis machinery and become addicted to a new family of enzymes that...
What a pain: The iPad neck plagues women more
Credit: (R. Marsh Starks/ UNLV Creative Services) Is your iPad being a literal pain in the neck? The answer is likely yes -- especially if...
