Study shows need for adaptive powered knee prosthesis to assist…
Credit: Marc Hall, NC State University New North Carolina State University research into wearable robotics shows how amputees wearing these devices adapted when presented with...
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Two Baylor College of Medicine faculty members named to National…
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Dr. Malcolm Brenner, founding director of the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's...
The pizza slice that comes at a price
A recent study has shown that emissions in major cities caused by restaurants such as pizzerias and steakhouses using wood burners can be damaging to...
Study suggests gut bacteria can aid recovery from spinal cord injury
Credit: Kigerl et al., 2016 Researchers from The Ohio State University have discovered that spinal cord injury alters the type of bacteria living in the...
Big trash pickup
Everyone would rather cook than take out the garbage. Perhaps that's why biochemists learned how cells make proteins 70 years ago, but are just now...
Vorinostat renders dormant HIV infection vulnerable to clearance
Credit: David Kinton, UNC School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC – The ability for HIV to hide in the body in a dormant state makes...
Mouse teeth providing new insights into tissue regeneration
Credit: Klein Lab / UCSF Researchers hope to one day use stem cells to heal burns, patch damaged heart tissue, even grow kidneys and other...
NIH researchers discover otulipenia, a new inflammatory disease
Credit: Darryl Leja, NHGRI National Institutes of Health researchers have discovered a rare and sometimes lethal inflammatory disease – otulipenia – that primarily affects young...
South highest, Northeast lowest for child auto fatalities
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – May 23, 2017 – The number of motor vehicle fatalities involving children under age 15 varies widely by...
Drone photos offer faster, cheaper data on key Antarctic species
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Southwest Fisheries Science Center Scientists in Antarctica have demonstrated a cheaper, faster and simpler way to gauge the condition of leopard seals, which...
The therapeutic antibody eculizumab caught in action
In collaboration with Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., scientists from Aarhus University have used X-rays to understand how the therapeutic antibody eculizumab prevents our immune system from...
DNA evidence shows that salmon hatcheries cause substantial, rapid genetic changes
CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new study on steelhead trout in Oregon offers genetic evidence that wild and hatchery fish are different at the DNA level,...
Workplace stress can take a toll on your brain surgeon, too
Credit: Ricardo Carrasco III/Keck Medicine of USC LOS ANGELES – When it comes to workplace stress, even doctors aren't immune to its effects. For doctors...
New oral diabetes drug shows promise in phase 3 trial for patients with type 1 diabetes
Satish Garg, MD, professor of medicine and pediatrics at the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus A University...
Umea University researchers help Europe fight spread of Zika virus
Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden help assess the risk that Zika will spread to Europe by describing the transmission season, areas at risk and...
