Material from shellfish delivers a boost to bioassays and medical tests
Credit: Junwei Li/Xiaohu Gao Scientists at the University of Washington have discovered a simple way to raise the accuracy of ...
Large multi-ethnic study identifies many new genetic markers for lupus
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - July 17, 2017 - Scientists from an international consortium have identified a large number of new genetic ...
Team-based model reduces prescription opioid use among patients with chronic pain by 40 percent
BOSTON-- A new, team-based, primary care model is decreasing prescription opioid use among patients with chronic pain by 40 percent, ...
Media registration open for TCT 2017
WHAT: Media registration is open online for TCT 2017 (Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics), the annual Scientific Symposium of the Cardiovascular Research ...
How dolphins inspired a potentially life-saving method for treating trauma victims
Credit: Douglas Levere, University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A physiological process used commonly by mammals like seals and dolphins ...
New tools help surgeons find liver tumors, not nick blood vessels
Credit: Vanderbilt University The liver is a particularly squishy, slippery organ, prone to shifting both deadly tumors and life-preserving blood ...
New light on the secret life of badgers
Previous studies have fuelled the assumption that badgers are a territorial and anti-social species, living in exclusive, tight-knit family groups, ...
Space station project seeks to crystalize the means to counteract nerve poisons
Credit: Video courtesy of NASA/CASIS The microgravity conditions of the International Space Station (ISS) may hold the key to improving ...
A heart attack in a petri dish
In petri dishes in her campus laboratory at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Alice Lee is developing colonies of cardiac ...
DOE funds Center for Bioenergy Innovation at ORNL to accelerate biofuels, bioproducts research
Credit: ORNL OAK RIDGE, Tenn., July 17, 2017 -- The Department of Energy has announced funding for new research centers ...
Nipple-sparing mastectomy has low rate of breast cancer recurrence
CHICAGO (July 17, 2017): Women with breast cancer who undergo nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) have a low rate of the cancer ...
NIH scientists find rare disease clues in cell’s recycling system
Scientists have demonstrated how an investigational drug works against a rare, fatal genetic disease, Niemann-Pick type C1 (NPC1). They found ...
Comparing algorithms that search for cancer mutations
Credit: Bil Zelman Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) has undertaken the first-ever comparative analysis of a newly emerging ...
A swell diagnostic method
Credit: Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research JULY 17, 2017, New York -- A Ludwig Cancer Research study offers pathologists a ...
Late-breaking mutations may play an important role in autism
Credit: Mohammed Uddin A study of nearly 6,000 families, combining three genetic sequencing technologies, finds that mutations that occur after ...
Black light helps diagnose common skin problem found in pregnant women
BOSTON- Researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that using a black ...
Diesel is now better than gas
Modern diesel cars emit less pollution generally than cars that run on gasoline, says a new six-nation study published today ...
O2 and hyperbaric oxygen therapy reverses brain damage in drowned toddler
New Orleans, LA - Dr. Paul Harch, Clinical Professor and Director of Hyperbaric Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School ...
Tracking the mechanisms of artery formation
Credit: MPI f. Molecular Biomedicine/ M.E. Pitulescu Arteriogenesis is a critical event - not only during development but also in ...
Mutation speeds up sperm of zebra finches
Credit: MPI f. Ornithology In zebra finches, sperm velocity and morphology and hence reproductive success strongly depend on a specific ...
