Deep learning predicts drug-drug and drug-food interactions
Credit: KAIST A Korean research team from KAIST developed a computational framework, DeepDDI, that accurately predicts and generates 86 types of drug-drug and drug-food interactions...
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Fatty fish and camelina oil are beneficial for your HDL and IDL cholesterol
Credit: UEF/Varpu Heiskanen Eating fatty fish increases the size and lipid composition of HDL particles in people with impaired glucose metabolism, according to a new...
Unique protein is a vulnerability in the malaria parasite
Over a thousand people die from malaria every day. The disease is caused by a single-cell parasite (protozoan) that is transmitted by mosquitoes. Anti-malaria efforts...
Keeping the excitement under control
Credit: Jean-Sebastian Jouhanneau, MDC James Poulet's lab at the MDC uses advanced techniques to monitor the activity of networks of single sensory neurons in the...
Improved method of delivering anti-cancer drugs
A new non-toxic method for delivering anti-cancer drugs to specific parts of the human body could mean the end of the severe and nasty side...
Study shows men and women tear ACL the same way in non-contact injury
Credit: Louis DeFrate/Duke University While women are two to four times more likely than men to tear the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in their knee,...
Why don’t kids use their asthma medicines?
In a new analysis of interviews conducted with children who have asthma, their caregivers and their clinicians, Johns Hopkins researchers found that there was significant...
Direct electrical current used to preferentially inhibit pain-transmitting neurons
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Using computer models and laboratory rats, Johns Hopkins researchers have demonstrated that "direct electrical current" can be delivered to nerves preferentially,...
Engineering a better device to capture — and release — circulating tumor cells
Credit: iDreamMachine For years, bioengineer Yaling Liu has been in pursuit of the deadly tumor cell. Liu has been perfecting a microfluidic device the size...
Overcoming bias about music takes work
Expectations and biases play a large role in our experiences. This has been demonstrated in studies involving art, wine and even soda. In 2007, Joshua...
Active young adults with Type 1 diabetes have muscle complications: Study
Credit: York University News Toronto, ON (April 18, 2018) - A new study from McMaster and York universities has found that poor muscle health may...
Mayo Clinic study finds no evidence that anesthesia in young children lowers intelligence
ROCHESTER, Minn. - A Mayo Clinic study finds no evidence that children given anesthesia before their third birthdays have lower IQs than those who did...
Low-income HIV patients suffer with healthcare access
Credit: MUHC Montreal, April 18, 2017-- Quebecers are not created equal when it comes to accessing anti-retroviral treatment (ART) for HIV and AIDS, a long-term...
ALS treatment delays disease and extends life in rats
Credit: Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute LOS ANGELES (April 17, 2018) -- Investigators at Cedars-Sinai are exploring a new way to treat amyotrophic...
Thinking about hitching a ride on a mission to Mars? One hazard you haven’t considered
Credit: NASA WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 17, 2018 -- The hazards of space flight are well known: freezing temperatures, the vacuum of space, radiation, isolation....
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