A study from investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute for Technology Assessment projects that the opioid overdose epidemic in the U.S. is likely...
Credit: Karl-Olof Bergman For pollinating butterflies, it is more important to be close to forests than to agricultural fields, according to a study of 32,000...
AGA's highest honor is presented to John I. Allen, M.D., M.B.A., A.G.A.F. Bethesda, MD (Feb. 1, 2019) -- The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) has announced...
Directed evolution of a designer enzyme with an unnatural catalytic amino acid The impressively high conversion rates of natural enzymes partly result from increasing the...
Researchers have discovered a new switch that plants use to control their responses to iron deficiencyCredit: HHU / Tzvetina Brumbarova Iron is an essential nutrient...
Researchers from the University of Malaga (UMA) evidence that levels of this vitamin in the body decrease in those months when sun impact is higherCredit:...
ADP-ribosylation, a process driven by PARP enzymes, helps some cancers grow and is suspected to be a factor in other common diseases A new method...
Developing personalised targets for treatment of decompensated cirrhosis and acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) Barcelona, Spain, 1 February 2019 - An EU Horizon 2020-financed project investigating...
Credit: Marc Chevrette MADISON - Medicine was transformed in the 20th century by the discovery and development of antibiotics, the vast majority of which came...
The majority of people who die by suicide deny having suicidal thoughts when asked by doctors in the weeks and months leading up to their...
New research could help to identify and develop new therapies for motor neurone disease and other neurodegenerative conditions Newly identified messenger molecules could help protect...
Scientists reveal rich details of dynamical systems by breaking them down into simpler components which change over timeCredit: OIST, António Carlos da Costa of Vrije...
This software analyzes patients' computed tomography (CT) results within 20 seconds and provides an image in which the pathology is clearly markedCredit: Peter the Great...
Cheaper and more efficient treatments for diseases could resultCredit: University of Sydney Stem cells are vital for therapeutic treatments to repair and build human tissue...
Credit: Sato et al., Bone, November 2018 Turning off a bone receptor protein could potentially treat osteoporosis in children without affecting bone growth. Osteoporosis is...
