New agility tests can discriminate between soccer players at different performance levels
Agility -- the ability to rapidly and tactically change speed or direction -- is an important factor in soccer performance. A new study reports that...
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Scientists use Dorset, UK, as model to help find traces of life on Mars
Imperial College London scientists have found traces of fatty acids - key building blocks of biological cells - in Dorset's acidic streams. They say that...
Nightingale Health expands biomarker services to analyze urine, CSF and cord blood
Credit: NIGHTINGALE HEALTH LTD. Nightingale Health, the Finnish innovator of an internationally recognized blood biomarker testing technology, today announced further steps towards widespread expan..
Waterloo study says insurance industry dangerously unprepared for extreme weather
As historic flooding caused by climate change devastates communities in New Brunswick and British Columbia, new research from the University of Waterloo reveals the insurance...
Protective protein activated by vitamin K found, inactive, abundant in blacks on dialysis
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (May 15, 2018) - High levels of a protein activated by vitamin K and associated with...
Per-capita end-of-life spending is decreasing rapidly, according to new study
Credit: via JAMA IM Health economists have long considered end-of-life spending to be one of the major contributors to the overall increase in health spending...
Gonorrhea surveillance study maps antibiotic resistance across Europe
The first European-wide genomic survey of gonorrhoea has mapped antibiotic resistance in this sexually transmitted disease throughout the continent. Researchers at The Centre for Genomic...
MDMA opens door for PTSD sufferers
When lasting trauma is caused by callous acts of violence, the key to recovery can be making meaning out of meaninglessness. Although such trauma is...
National trial: EEG brain tests help patients overcome depression
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - May 15, 2018 - Imagine millions of depressed Americans getting their brain activity measured and undergoing blood tests to determine...
Researchers find new way to stimulate cellular recycling process
Credit: Lapierre lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Brown University researchers studying the biology of aging have demonstrated a new strategy for stimulating autophagy,..
LGBTQ teens experiencing high levels of stress, says national survey
A survey of LGBTQ teenagers across the nation reveals in detail the persistent challenges many of them face going about their daily lives at home,...
International Charr Symposium lures scientists to Lake Superior
Duluth, Minnesota -- Lake Superior and its cold-water fishes will be prominent in the first-ever Charr Symposium held in the United States. Charr are a...
Keeping kids with asthma out of the hospital
Credit: Children's National Health System Pediatric asthma takes a heavy toll on patients and families alike. Affecting more than 7 million children in the U.S.,...
Researchers identify method to overcome false positives in CT imaging for lung cancer
ROCHESTER Minn. - A team of researchers including investigators from Mayo Clinic has identified a technology to address the problem of false positives in CT-based...
OHSU one of three centers selected to study cells at atomic level
Credit: Kristyna Wentz-Graff, OHSU PORTLAND, Oregon - OHSU will become a national center for an imaging technique that is revolutionizing structural biology. In partnership with...
