UIC researchers tackle opioid use among kidney disease patients
NIH awards UIC $2.8 millionCredit: UI Health The University of Illinois at Chicago has received $2.8 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health...
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Virtual reality may help foster learning and collaboration across health professions
A new study says a simulated educational experience has the potential to enable convenient and effective interprofessional education in palliative care for health professions studentsCredit:...
Living a long chimpanzee life
Report on the life expectancy of captive chimpanzees in JapanCredit: Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan -- We humans may consider a long-lived life to be anywhere...
The American Institute of Physics announces 2019 Science Communication Award winners
Diverse selection of 2019 Science Communication Award-winning literature includes works on animal-inspired robotics, the far reaches of outer space, climate change and black holesCredit: Hu,...
UNH researchers find northern forests have lost crucial cold, snowy conditions
Credit: MaxPixel DURHAM, N.H.--As the popular saying goes, "winter is coming," but is it? Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have found clear signs...
Getting an ‘eel’ for the water: The physics of undulatory human swimming
Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba produce the most detailed motion capture of undulatory swimming and the resulting 3D flow velocity field, which shows...
Scientists predict the areas of the brain to stimulate transitions between different brain states
Using a computer model of the brain, scientists have developed an innovative method published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Sept. 3Credit:...
Breakthrough in sex-chromosome regulation
Credit: Ulf Sirborn Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have uncovered a chromosome-wide mechanism that keeps the gene expression of sex chromosomes in balance in...
Poor mental and physical health in pregnancy linked to infant sleep problems
Severe and persistent infant sleep problems in the first year are linked to poor maternal mental and physical health during pregnancyCredit: Minnie Zhou Severe and...
MIT sets out to model Alzheimer’s disease complexity on a chip
Credit: The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory The complexity of Alzheimer's disease, which affects many types of cells in the brain including its blood...
NUS SDE4 receives international recognition for building designed to improve health and wellness
The state-of-the-art net-zero energy building is the first university building in the world to be WELL Certified™ Gold, and the first building in Singapore to...
Confronting colony collapse
Scientists sequence the genomes of the parasitic mites harming the world's beesCredit: OIST Honey bee colony collapse has devastating consequences for the environment, the global...
Supercomputing, neutrons unite to unravel structures of intrinsically disordered protein
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy Using the Titan supercomputer and the Spallation Neutron Source at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge...
First maps of areas suitable for spotted lanternfly’s establishment in US and world
Credit: ARS-USDA WAPATO, WASHINGTON, October 3, 2019--Maps identifying the areas suitable for establishment of the spotted lanternfly (SLF) in the United States and other countries...
Targeting regulator of mitochondrial cell death delivers anticancer activity
Credit: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA -- (Oct. 3, 2019) -- A novel anticancer molecule created by researchers at The Wistar Institute showed therapeutic activity in...
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