Millions on prescription sleeping pills would sleep through a fire alarm
Japanese scientists have shown that a new class of sleeping pill preserves the ability to wake in response to a threat -- unlike Ambien, Halcion...
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£1.5 million for clinical research brings new hope in the fight against brain tumours
£1.5 million from Barts Charity has been awarded to brain tumour researchers at Queen Mary University of London to extend their successful lab-based research into...
Eight states join Go NAPSACC, an online health promotion tool for children
In 2019, Go NAPSACC will be in 20 states working to improve the health of young children. Developed at the University of North Carolina at...
Research to advance cancer therapy
New Orleans, LA - Research led by Suresh Alahari, PhD, the Fred Brazda Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at LSU Health New Orleans School...
Lupus Research Alliance announces research grants to speed new lupus treatment
Can "borrowed" drugs for treating other diseases protect the skin in patients with lupus? Can researchers coax the body to weed out harmful immune cells...
HKUST scientists develop novel method to monitor molecular aggregation
Credit: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Chiral molecules are defined as molecules that are non-superimposable on their mirror image, much like that...
New policy design needed to tackle global environmental threat, according to report
A pioneering new report has devised a seven-point plan to help policymakers devise new, coherent and collaborative strategies to tackle the greatest global environmental threats....
New analytic model to better identify patients likely to develop PTSD
Credit: Courtesy of NYU Langone Health New findings from an international research team led by psychiatrists at NYU School of Medicine show that a newly-developed...
Skull scans tell tale of how world's first dogs caught their prey
Credit: Julia Schwab Analysis of the skulls of lions, wolves and hyenas has helped scientists uncover how prehistoric dogs hunted 40 million years ago. A...
Real-time detection of cholesterol in liver-on-chip cultures of human liver cells
Credit: Author In a paper to be published in the September/December 2019 issue of TECHNOLOGY, a team of researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering...
The algae's third eye
Credit: (Image: Eva Laura von der Heyde) Just like land plants, algae use sunlight as an energy source. Many green algae actively move in the...
Parasites from patients with cerebral malaria stick preferentially in their brains
A team at LSTM with their collaborators in Malawi and Denmark have provided, for the first time, evidence which links the ability of red blood...
Being HIV positive and staying on antiretroviral therapy in Africa: A systematic review
An international team of researchers have carried out a review of the evidence examining what influences people who are HIV positive to go to health...
VISTA checkpoint implicated in pancreatic cancer immunotherapy resistance
Comparison of pancreatic and melanoma tumors highlights importance of stroma HOUSTON - Researchers have identified a new potential immunotherapy target in pancreatic cancer, which so...
Powerful microscope captures first image of nanoscaffold that promotes cell movement
Discovery could yield insights into cancer metastasis, wound healing, organ development and more cell-motility-related conditionsCredit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) LA JOLLA, CALIF....
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