Undescended testes in boyhood linked to testicular cancer and infertility in adulthood
Led by the University of Sydney researchers and published today in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, this is the first population-based cohort study to...
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Restless legs syndrome brain stimulation study supports motor cortex ‘excitability’ as a cause
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say new experiments using magnetic pulse brain stimulation on people with moderate to severe restless legs syndrome (RLS) have added to...
Children suffering from tics can be helped by both group and individual therapy
Therapy against tics works, and both group and individual treatment are suitable methods to achieve a good effect. This is the conclusion reached by a...
CHF 14 million of funding for all-terrain radiology
Credit: EPFL / Alain Herzog & Jamani Caillet Pristem SA has raised CHF 14 million of funding from a group of Swiss and African investors....
EPFL’s Blue Brain Project open sources interactive visualization tool — RTNeuron
Credit: EPFL / Blue Brain Project The aim of the Blue Brain Project is to build accurate, biologically-detailed, digital reconstructions and simulations of the rodent...
Failing immune system ‘brakes’ help explain type 1 diabetes in mice
Immune reactions are usually a good thing--the body's way of eliminating harmful bacteria and other pathogens. But people also rely on molecular "brakes," or checkpoints,...
Tight-knit teammates may conform to each other’s behavior
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Good relationships between teammates are essential to a team's success, but athletes who feel more closely connected to their teammates may...
Celebrity culture likely contributed to destigmatizing out-of-wedlock childbirth
BUFFALO, N.Y. - In 1992, former Vice President Dan Quayle criticized the sitcom character Murphy Brown's decision to have a child out of wedlock. His...
$3.8 million NIMH grant to diagnose suicidal thinking using brain imaging
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University To build on a groundbreaking study that used brain imaging to identify individuals with suicidal thoughts, Carnegie Mellon University's Marcel Just...
New strategic funding to metabolic research at the University of Copenhagen
Metabolic diseases, such as obesity and type 2 diabetes, are a huge societal challenge and represent a global health problem. Nationally, Denmark has also seen...
Dectin-1-mediated pain is critical for the resolution of fungal inflammation
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - Candida albicans infection (candidiasis) can cause skin, genital, or oral pain. Many studies have attempted to understand the source...
HKBU scholars in world-first breakthrough for difficult-to-treat breast cancer
Credit: HKBU Chemists at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have discovered the use of a metal compound that inhibits the enzyme closely associated with triple-negative...
China is hot spot of ground-level ozone pollution
Credit: Owen R. Cooper/CIRES and NOAA In China, people breathe air thick with the lung-damaging pollutant ozone two to six times more often than people...
Best of ESC Congress 2018
Credit: ESC Congress 2018 Munich, Germany - 29 Aug 2018. Bringing to life the Messe München congress centre from August 25 to 29, ESC Congress...
40th W. Alden Spencer Award goes to Silvia Arber and Botond Roska
Credit: IOB Silvia Arber and Botond Roska have been selected as co-recipients of the 2018 W. Alden Spencer Award in recognition of their outstanding contributions...
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