UTEK joins co-creation laboratory as 5TONIC takes to the ocean
New project tests 5G radio waves for maritime applicationsCredit: © IMDEA Networks Institute UTEK, a Spanish start-up company backed by the European Space Agency's business...
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GW Cancer receives $4 million award for technical assistance to comprehensive cancer control
Principal Investigator Mandi Pratt-Chapman, MA has been awarded a $4.125 million cooperative agreement to continue work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
Retinal prion disease study redefines role for brain cells
Microglia may benefit, not damage, photoreceptorsCredit: James. F. Striebel/NIAID WHAT: National Institutes of Health scientists studying the progression of inherited and infectious eye diseases that...
Newly discovered role for climbing fibers: Conveying a sensory snapshot to the cerebellum
Researchers at Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have revealed a special input pathway that holds the key to coding sensory information in the CerebellumCredit:...
Laura Mosqueda, MD, expert on preventing elder abuse, to deliver #AGS19 Henderson Lecture
Credit: (C) 2019, American Geriatrics Society The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) today announced that Laura Mosqueda, MD, AGSF, Dean of the Keck School of Medicine...
With expertise in geriatrics and population health, Dr. Amy Kind to deliver #AGS19 Yoshikawa Lecture
Credit: (C) 2019, American Geriatrics Society The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and AGS Health in Aging Foundation today announced that Amy Kind, MD, PhD, one...
White people’s eating habits produce most greenhouse gases
White individuals disproportionately affect the environment through their eating habits by eating more foods that require more water and release more greenhouse gases through their...
At #AGS19, geriatrics experts cast widest net yet for social, scientific innovations
Credit: (C) 2019, American Geriatrics Society When today's Baby Boomers were just starting their careers, smoking was still en vogue, American life expectancy still hovered...
Mini microscope is the new GoPro for studies of brain disease in living mice
Credit: Arvind Pathak Working with mice, a team of Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers has developed a relatively inexpensive, portable mini microscope that could improve scientists'...
Heating up tumors could make CAR T therapy more effective, study finds
FINDINGS A preclinical study led by scientists at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer suggests that heating solid tumors during CAR T-cell therapy can enhance the...
$6.1 million in grants pave way for TGen-led studies of deadly lung diseases
50,000 US patients annually diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis PHOENIX, Ariz. -- March 27, 2019 -- The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of...
UTSA study quantifies injuries and combat casualty care trends during War on Terror
New article aims to educate leaders about military trauma care policies Thousands of military service members lost their lives or were severely injured while serving...
Biophysicists use machine learning to understand, predict dynamics of worm behavior
Biophysicists have used an automated method to model a living system -- the dynamics of a worm perceiving and escaping pain. Biophysicists have used an...
Implant to better track brain chemical gone rogue after neurotrauma
Credit: Purdue University/Erin Easterling Your chances of getting a nasty migraine increase following a spinal cord injury, thanks to a chemical messenger in the brain...
NASA’s Aqua Satellite keeps an ‘eye’ on Tropical Cyclone Joaninha
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Visible imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed a visible eye remained in Tropical...
