Sunscreen application has better face coverage than SPF moisturizers
Credit: Austin McCormick, 2019 Application of sun protection factor (SPF) moisturizers tends to miss more of the face, especially around the eyelid regions, compared with...
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Government subsidies could be key to containing hospital-born infections
Healthcare-associated infections -- illnesses that people contract while being treated in a hospital or other healthcare facility -- sicken millions of people each year and...
Widely used public health surveys may underestimate global burden of childhood diarrhea
Standard survey asks caregivers to recall diarrhea cases over past two weeks -- but a one-week recall period may be much more accurate Public health...
Researchers test new imaging method for first time on human patients
The new technology is focused on improving detection and diagnosis of congenital heart disease in infants and children.Credit: Image provided by the researchers A new...
Global centers of unsustainable harvesting of species identified
Credit: Enrico Di Minin Unsustainable harvesting, including hunting, trapping, fishing and logging, is one of the biggest threats to biodiversity. Yet, no previous assessment has...
A step toward recovering reproduction in girls who survive childhood cancer
ANN ARBOR--Leukemia treatments often leave girls infertile, but a procedure developed by researchers at the University of Michigan working with mice is a step toward...
‘Cool Coalition’ comes together to save lives, energy and trillions for the global economy
Emissions from cooling sector set to grow 90 percent by 2050 without actionCredit: PXHERE public domain Copenhagen, Denmark - As global temperatures rise and the...
Leukocytes use their nucleus as a ruler to choose path of least resistance
Mobile cells move around obstacles in dense tissue by selecting for larger pore sizes; study published in the journal NatureCredit: IST Austria/Jörg Renkawitz How do...
Structure of the molecular machine that links carbohydrate and lipid metabolism
A research team led by dr. Kenneth Verstraete in the Unit for Structural Biology at the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research has unraveled the three-dimensional...
Integrating infant mental health into the neonatal intensive care unit
Psychotherapists at Children's Hospital Los Angeles implement child-parent psychotherapy in the NICU Bringing a baby into the world involves many firsts - mothers and fathers...
Unpaired 1 — A new candidate gene to contribute to lifespan regulation
Credit: Insilico Medicine Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - Alexey Moskalev, Ph.D., Head of the Laboratory of Geroprotective and Radioprotective technologies, and co-authors from the Institute...
New Metascape platform enables biologists to unlock big-data insights
Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys LA JOLLA, CALIF. - April 3, 2019 - For the modern biologist, large-scale OMICs studies--which map all of the genes, proteins,...
It’s a one-way street for sound waves in this new technology
Credit: Harris Lab/Yale University New Haven, Conn. - Imagine being able to hear people whispering in the next room, while the raucous party in your...
Scientists decipher 3D structure of a promising molecular target for cancer treatment
Columbia University discovery could be a major step in developing therapies for cancer, controlling cholesterolCredit: Nimbus Therapeutics; Liang Tong, Columbia University, Nature Columbia University scientists,...
UCI scientists are first to observe, image all-important molecular vibrations
Using light focused to size of an atom, they push resolution of microscopy to new levelCredit: Steve Zylius / UCI Irvine, Calif., April 3, 2019...
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