‘Origami’ rapid malaria test receives Grand Challenges Explorations grant
Credit: Lauren Gibson / Vanderbilt University An interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers at Vanderbilt University headed by Stevenson Professor ...
UCI prostate cancer project awarded $1.2 million by state precision medicine initiative
Credit: Matt Herp / ADA Irvine, Calif., Nov. 15, 2016 -- University of California, Irvine health policy researchers have been ...
Researchers question if banning of ‘killer robots’ actually will stop robots from killing
BUFFALO, N.Y. - A University at Buffalo research team has published a paper that implies that the rush to ban ...
Can artery ‘banks’ transform vascular medicine?
Credit: Morgridge Institute for Research MADISON -- The prospect of creating artery "banks" available for cardiovascular surgery, bypassing the need ...
Hawai’i researchers link quality of coastal groundwater with reef degradation on Maui
Credit: University of Hawaii Land-use practices on tropical oceanic islands can have large impacts on reef ecosystems, even in the ...
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals and partners to receive $1.2 million grant from CIAPM
Oakland, CA (November 15, 2016) - A team at the Oakland and San Francisco campuses of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, ...
Malaria research at CU Anschutz receives Gates Foundation support
Credit: University of Colorado The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations ...
Appendicitis patients can safely leave hospital the same day of their operations
CHICAGO (November 15, 2016): Patients with acute appendicitis who undergo laparoscopic appendectomy (surgical remove of the appendix) do not experience ...
New LEDs may offer better way to clean water in remote areas
Credit: Image by Brelon J. May, courtesy of The Ohio State University. COLUMBUS, Ohio--For the first time, researchers have created ...
Preventing adolescent substance use may need to start in early childhood
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Research from the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions suggests the approach to preventing alcohol and ...
‘Princess Leia’ brainwaves help sleeping brain store memories
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(November 15, 2016) Every night while you sleep, electrical waves of brain activity circle around each ...
NIH scientists identify potent antibody that neutralizes nearly all HIV strains
WHAT: Scientists from the National Institutes of Health have identified an antibody from an HIV-infected person that potently neutralized 98 ...
New bioinformatic analysis reveals role of proteins in diabetic kidney disease
Credit: UC San Diego Health A new bioinformatic framework developed by researchers at University of California San Diego School of ...
Prescribing drugs for cardiovascular disease prevention in the UK
Drugs such as statins that have the potential to prevent strokes and other types of cardiovascular disease have not been ...
Three brain chemicals affect how we handle uncertainty
Credit: Edvard Munch and Roland Roberts New research has revealed how three important brain signaling chemicals affect the way that ...
PSU receives Grand Challenges Explorations grant
Credit: Portland State University Portland State University announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded ...
Light therapy could save bees from deadly pesticides
Loading video... Credit: UCL Treating bees with light therapy can counteract the harmful effects of neonicotinoid pesticides and improve survival ...
New model reveals adaptations of world’s most abundant ocean microbe
Credit: Tara Clemente, University of Hawaii SOEST Researchers from David Karl's laboratory at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM) ...
Bacteria discovery offers possible new means of controlling crop pest
CORVALLIS, Ore. - A bacterium common in insects has been discovered in a plant-parasitic roundworm, opening up the possibility of ...
New drug beats standard therapy in advanced kidney cancer
Credit: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON -- An experimental kidney cancer drug outperformed the standard first-line therapy for patients with metastatic ...
