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Washington, DC - February 1, 2019 - When it comes to processing coffee beans, longer fermentation times can result in better taste, contrary to conventional...

VIEW: Enzyme Warps Space to Break the Cell's Speed Limit Johns Hopkins researchers have found that rhomboid enzymes, which are special proteins that cut other...

Registered researchers will have rapid access to an "unprecedented scale" of clinical research data through the new Common Infrastructure for National Cohorts in Europe, Canada...

Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma researcher, Si Wu, and collaborators from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and Indiana University, are developing new...

Regardless of race or ethnicity, patients were 33 percent less likely to receive any palliative care for metastatic cancer at hospitals primarily serving minorities For...

Credit: NIMHD Health disparities have persisted, despite extensive research and a decades-long mandate to eliminate them. Thus, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health...

Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire release nTIDE Report -- Monthly Update -- with a focus on representing disability in the entertainment industry and...

URBANA, Ill. - Rice coproducts in pig diets add fat and fiber, but too much fiber can decrease energy absorption and digestibility. A recent study...

Credit: ATS Feb. 1, 2019--The American Thoracic Society has developed a new clinical practice guideline for home oxygen therapy for children. The guideline appears in...

Credit: KIT NCER The Korea Institute of Toxicology (KIT·Chief Dr. Song, Chang-woo) National Center for Efficacy Evaluation of Respiratory Disease Product (NCER·Chief Dr. Lee, Kyu-hong)...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2019 -- Whether you rock sideburns or baby-smooth legs, all shavers share one concern -- the threat...

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...