FDA clears heart disease trial at Boston Children’s Hospital…
BOSTON, NEW YORK, and MELBOURNE, Australia, April 03, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Boston Children's Hospital, the pediatric teaching hospital of Harvard University, and Mesoblast Limited...
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Artificial ‘skin’ gives robotic hand a sense of touch
Credit: University of Houston A team of researchers from the University of Houston has reported a breakthrough in stretchable electronics that can serve as an...
Preclinical trials of radiopharmaceutical for cancer diagnosis
Credit: RIA Novosti (Russian news agency) A radiopharmaceutical for advanced identification of cancer, labeled with the technetium-99 isotope, is ready for the preclinical-phase trial. Scientists...
Highly prevalent gene variants in minority populations cause kidney disease
Credit: Katalin Susztak, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA – African Americans have a heightened risk of developing chronic and end-stage kidney disease....
Testing stem cells as possible treatment for heart failure
Credit: Sarah Pack Stem cells are being tested at the Medical University of South Carolina as a possible treatment for heart failure with a preserved...
Elongation by contraction
Credit: Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore Scientists from the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a new mechanism...
In bee decline, fungicides emerge as improbable villain
When a Cornell-led team of scientists analyzed two dozen environmental factors to understand bumblebee population declines and range contractions, they expected to find stressors like...
New class of drugs holds promise for combating antibiotic resistance
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory A new class of drugs that combat antibiotic resistance has been discovered by a University of Oklahoma researcher and team....
Salk Institute awarded $25 million grant from Helmsley Charitable Trust
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA — (Nov. 21, 2016) The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has received a $25 million grant — a renewal of...
Study shows a potential new approach to opioid crisis
Credit: ATS Jan. 25, 2018 — In a six-month study recently concluded, a research unit affiliated with two hospital institutions and a university in Ottawa...
When loved ones battle cancer, families head to Web for information more than support
IMAGE: Carolyn Lauckner is an assistant professor in the University of Georgia's department of health promotion and behavior. Credit: Brian McCarthy Athens, Ga. – Loved...
New findings show promise for treatment of Graves’ disease and other ocular…
Credit: The American Journal of Pathology Philadelphia, PA, November 11, 2016 – A new class of therapies may be on the horizon for thyroid eye...
Two Caribbean bird-catcher trees named after 2 women with overlooked botanical works
Credit: Rosimar Rivera Colón Known for their biodiversity richness, the Caribbean Islands are now adding two new species of bird-catcher trees to their list of...
Three-drug combinations could help counter antibiotic resistance, UCLA…
Each year, approximately 700,000 people die from drug-resistant bacterial infections. A study by UCLA life scientists could be a major step toward combating drug-resistant infections....
Mini-strokes can be ‘ominous prelude’ to catastrophic strokes
Each year, more than 200,000 Americans experience mini-strokes called transient ischemic attacks (TIAs). Patients suffer stroke-like symptoms such as paralysis on one side or difficulty...
