Removing multi-resistant bacteria from sewage
Credit: Bin im Garten, CC BY-SA 3.0 According to the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, 700 to 800 t of antibiotics are...
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External structure can affect the function of enzymes
Credit: RUB, Marquard A research team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and from South Africa has analysed two enzymes with identical substrate binding pockets that nevertheless...
Supermarket produce harbors antibiotic-resistance genes
Washington, DC - November 6, 2018 - Researchers from the Julius Kühn Institut, Germany have found that produce is a reservoir for transferable antibiotic resistance...
Eat your vegetables (and fish): Another reason why they may promote heart health
Rockville, Md. (November 6, 2018)--Elevated levels of trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO)--a compound linked with the consumption of fish, seafood and a primarily vegetarian diet--may reduce hypertension-re..
Women who are ‘larks’ have a lower risk of developing breast cancer
Glasgow, UK: Women who are "larks", functioning better at the beginning of the day than the end of the day, have a lower of risk...
Doctors and nurses reluctant to recommend e-cigarettes to cancer patients
Glasgow, UK: Twenty-nine per cent of health professionals would not recommend e-cigarettes to cancer patients who already smoke, according to research presented at the 2018...
Gap in research means millions living with long-term consequences of cancer
Glasgow, UK: Millions of people are living with the long-term consequences of cancer and its treatment, but currently there is very little research on the...
Gut stem cells offer clues for preventing tumours in inherited bowel cancer
Glasgow, UK: Treating pre-cancerous stem cells at an early stage could be key to preventing bowel cancer in people born with a very high risk...
New analysis about synchronization transitions improves knowledge of physical, biological systems
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--In physical, biological and technological systems, the time that a system's components take to influence each other can affect the transition...
Machine-learning system could aid critical decisions in sepsis care
Researchers from MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed a predictive model that could guide clinicians in deciding when to give potentially life-saving drugs...
ASU researcher helps develop prosthetic hand system, allowing user to ‘feel’ again
Arizona State University researcher James Abbas is part of a multi-institutional research team that has developed a new prosthetic hand system with a fully implanted,...
Open source machine learning tool could help choose cancer drugs
Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech The selection of a first-line chemotherapy drug to treat many types of cancer is often a clear-cut decision governed by...
Study findings show promise in preventing heart disease in cancer survivors
Credit: Photo by Cori Kogan, Washington State University Health Sciences Spokane SPOKANE, Wash. - A new study by Washington State University researchers suggests that a...
New deep knowledge AI system could resolve bottlenecks in drug research
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a new system that could significantly speed up the discovery of new drugs and reduce the need...
Carnegie Mellon’s Aryn Gittis receives Society for Neuroscience Career Development Award
Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientist Aryn Gittis has been named a recipient of the Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience. She...
