Increasing CD and microchip capacity 100-fold
Credit: University of Arizona Imagine if microchips and rewritable CDs could hold a hundred times more data. The way digital data is stored starts with...
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New transgenic rat model may enable better understanding of amyloid buildup in cerebral blood vessels
Credit: The American Journal of Pathology Philadelphia, November 13, 2018 - In a report in The American Journal of Pathology investigators describe the generation of...
The first cave-dwelling centipede from southern China
Credit: Hui-qin Ma Chinese scientists recorded the first cave-dwelling centipede known so far from southern China. To the amazement of the team, the specimens collected...
Drug matched to patients according to tumour gene testing shows signs of being effective
Dublin, Ireland: Treatment with capivasertib, a drug designed to work against a particular gene mutation found in some tumours, shows signs of being effective in...
BfR and BVL simulate food crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The workshop is being jointly organised by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL)...
When boy fish build castles to impress girls, boy genes get ‘turned on’ and ‘tuned in’
Credit: Stanford University / York, Fernald Call it instinct, but something compels some animals to behave in certain ways, perhaps programs in their genes. Researchers...
If your diet fails, try again; your heart will thank you
Credit: Purdue University photo/John Underwood During the holiday season, it can be difficult for even the most determined of us to stick to a healthy...
Georgetown University Medical Center selects Nora Volkow for Highest Honor
Credit: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) WASHINGTON (November 13, 2018) -- Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) will present Nora Volkow, MD, director of the...
Pain can be a self-fulfilling prophecy
Credit: CU Boulder Expect a shot to hurt and it probably will, even if the needle poke isn't really so painful. Brace for a second...
AFAR 2018 Scientific Awards of Distinction
Boston, MA - The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), a national non-profit organization whose mission is to support and advance healthy aging through biomedical...
Affordable health care means better access to diabetes prevention, management
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 100 million Americans are either living with diabetes or have higher than average blood...
How can hospitals keep doctors positively engaged with their work?
November 13, 2018 - Individual and work-related factors may be helpful in promoting positive engagement with work among hospital physicians, according to a study in...
NIH scientists illuminate causes of hepatitis b virus-associated acute liver failure
Credit: NIAID WHAT: National Institutes of Health scientists and their collaborators found that hepatitis B virus (HBV)-associated acute liver failure (ALF)--a rare condition that can...
Stealth-cap technology for light-emitting nanoparticles
Credit: HZDR/Sahneweiss/istockphoto.com/Thomas-Soellner/Molekuul A team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), in collaboration with researchers from Monash University ..
Study examines opioid use among Massachusetts adolescents, trends in opioid prescriptions
Opioid-related overdoses and deaths remain a major public health concern in Massachusetts, yet adolescents who experience opioid-related nonfatal overdose (NFOD) have been rarely studied. Using...
