Double danger: The peril of childbirth for women with rheumatic heart disease
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Today, most people in the United States rarely think of rheumatic heart disease (RHD)-or the rheumatic fever that causes it-as more than...
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Wayne State University searches for new directions to treat Barth syndrome
Credit: Wayne State University DETROIT -- The Barth Syndrome Foundation recently announced awardees from its 2017 grant cycle. Miriam Greenberg, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences...
A high-specificity test detects prior infection by Zika virus
A test that detects antibodies against Zika virus in samples of blood serum with high specificity - and hence a low risk of cross-reaction with...
West Greenland Ice Sheet melting at the fastest rate in centuries
Credit: Robert Gill/Dartmouth College HANOVER, N.H. - March 28, 2018 - The West Greenland Ice Sheet melted at a dramatically higher rate over the last...
PSU researcher to examine volcanic ash to aid evacuations
Helping emergency responders predict where ash from exploding volcanoes will fall and how heavy it will accumulate is the focus of new $624,000 National Science...
Relationship changes after bariatric surgery
Credit: Photo by Malin Arnesson Individuals who have undergone bariatric surgery have a higher probability of getting married, separating from their partner or getting divorced,...
Phase I HIV vaccine trial to begin
WORCESTER - A Phase I clinical trial testing the safety of vaccines that might have the potential to prevent HIV infection will begin this month...
Largest-ever genetic study of stroke provides new insight into the disease
An international research group, including scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, studying 520,000 people from around the world has identified 22 new...
Brain-wide tracing of single neurons reveals breadth of information transfer from visual cortex
Credit: Sainsbury Wellcome Centre An international collaboration of neuroscientists have today published a paper in Nature demonstrating the breadth of neural communication in visual cortex...
Jefferson and Einstein intend to merge
Credit: Einstein Healthcare Network Leadership from Jefferson and Einstein Healthcare Network announced today the signing of a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) to merge, potentially...
Stand Up To Cancer grants encourage ‘innovation in collaboration’
Credit: Photo by ©AACR/Todd Buchanan 2018 PHILADELPHIA - March 28, 2018 - To strengthen collaboration among scientists conducting cancer research, Stand Up To Cancer is...
2018 HFSP Career Development Awards
The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) announced today 11 Career Development Awards (CDA). The awards are for the most highly creative and accomplished...
Rapid pair production – Detection of a new reaction path in the atmosphere
Credit: Photo: Tilo Arnhold, TROPOS Leipzig. Scientists have now observed a particularly rapid type of pair production in the laboratory: Hydrocarbons double when two peroxyl...
Plants, fungi and bacteria work together to clean polluted land
Credit: Ectomycorrhizal Fungi image by Dr. Hugues Massicotte, Forest Ecology and Management, University of Northern British Columbia Highly complex interactions among roots, fungi and bacteria...
Weather phenomena such as El Niño affect up to two-thirds of the world’s harvests
(Aalto University) According to researchers at Aalto University, Finland, large-scale weather cycles, such as the one related to the El Niño phenomenon, affect two-thirds of...
