Researchers from the Biomedical Engineering Department at Rutgers University have developed an end-to-end blood testing device that integrates robotic phlebotomy with downstream sample processing. Thi..
Credit: Bahar Degirmenci, UZH The human intestine constantly renews itself. Alone in the colon - the last 1.5 meters of the gastrointestinal tract - 10...
A new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found automated phone calls were far more effective than Facebook ads in getting...
It takes an "A" team to make headway against glioblastoma, a highly aggressive type of brain cancer. Glioblastoma is the most common type of malignant...
Credit: Ciaran Simms and Gregory Tierney, Trinity College Dublin. Bioengineers have compiled a set of recommendations that could significantly reduce concussions and other head injuries...
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Humans can perform a vast array of mental operations and adjust their behavioral responses based on external instructions and internal beliefs. For...
Credit: Kepecs Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - New technologies have been likened, famously, to magic. At first, even the few who understand how...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A new approach to killing C. difficile that silences key bacterial genes while sparing other bacteria may provide a new way...
Ever wish you could do a quick "breath check" before an important meeting or a big date? Now researchers, reporting in ACS' journal Analytical Chemistry,...
Credit: GP Nicolas et al., University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland RESTON, VA - Researchers have shown that a new nuclear medicine procedure could safely and...
Credit: Biodesign Institute Arizona State University has been awarded more than $8.5 million over five years from the National Cancer Institute to establish the Arizona...
Credit: National Mango Board ORLANDO, FL (June 6, 2018) -- Next time you suffer from constipation, you may want to consider grabbing a mango instead...
A class of immunotherapy drugs called checkpoint inhibitors has shown great promise against cancer in some patients. However, researchers' attempts to boost the drugs' efficacy...
Credit: Yung-Yao Lin, QMUL Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed new cell-based technologies which could help improve understanding of the muscle-wasting disease...
Africanized honeybees, commonly known as "killer bees," are much more aggressive than their European counterparts. Now researchers have examined neuropeptide changes that take place in...
