Doctors may be able to enlist a mysterious enzyme to stop internal bleeding
Blood platelets are like the sand bags of the body. Got a cut? Platelets pile in to clog the hole and stop the bleeding. But...
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Healthy fat cells uncouple obesity from diabetes
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine About 422 million people around the world, including more than 30 million Americans, have diabetes. Approximately ninety percent of them...
Societies recommend policies to retain, increase ranks of ID physician scientists
Improved compensation, expanded mentorship and training opportunities, and concrete measures to improve workforce diversity are all needed to address attrition from the ranks of physician...
Scientists pinpoint brain networks responsible for naming objects
Credit: PHOTO CREDIT: Rob Cahill, UTHealth Scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have identified the brain networks that allow...
USTC develops a family of bioinspired artificial woods by traditional resins
Credit: YU Shuhong Nature has provided us not only the fantastic materials, but also the inspiration for the design and fabrication of high-performance biomimetic engineering...
Deep in the weeds: Using eDNA sequencing to survey pondweed diversity
Ecological surveys of biodiversity provide fundamental baseline information on species occurrence and the health of an ecosystem, but can require significant labor and taxonomic expertise...
Generating DNA sequence data in the developing world
Credit: Campbell O. Webb Globally, biodiversity is concentrated around the equator, but the scientific institutions generating DNA sequence data to study that biodiversity tend to...
An ion channel differentiates newborn and mature neurons in the adult brain
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The dentate gyrus of the hippocampus is part of the brain that helps form memories. It is also one of...
Gips-Schüle Foundation funds new research group in Konstanz
(University of Konstanz) Collective behaviour and early career researcher Dr Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin begins her work as the first Gips-Schüle Junior Research Group Leader at the...
Research may help rescue antibiotics’ effectiveness in the face of drug-resistant bacteria
BIDMC Research Briefs showcase groundbreaking scientific advances that are transforming medical care. Bacteria--especially Gram-negative strains--are becoming increasingly resistant to current antib..
AI model ‘learns’ from patient data to make cancer treatment less toxic
MIT researchers are employing novel machine-learning techniques to improve the quality of life for patients by reducing toxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy dosing for glioblastoma, the...
Amazingly ‘green’ synthesis method for high-tech dyes
Credit: © TU Wien They not only impress due to their radiant and intense colour, they also have an important technological significance: organic dyes are...
Fresh insight into invasive plant that blights UK rivers
Credit: Nigel Willby New research into the behaviour of an invasive plant seen on riverbanks across the UK could help improve the management of the...
Four URI scientists among 100 researchers on NASA-led expedition to North Pacific
KINGSTON, R.I., August, 9, 2018 -- Four scientists from the University of Rhode Island are among 100 researchers from 30 institutions who shipped out of...
Palliative care may reduce suicide risk in veterans with lung cancer
Credit: OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff Results from a large-scale patient population study, recently published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society, reveal palliative care is associated...
