Some blood stem cells are better than others
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases In your body, blood stem cells produce approximately 10 billion new white blood cells, which are also...
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Adults with high blood pressure face higher healthcare costs
DALLAS, May 30, 2018 -- Adults with high blood pressure face $1,920 higher healthcare costs each year compared to those without high blood pressure, according...
Insomnia is a likely long-term side effect of stroke
Stroke patients experience sustained problems with insomnia potentially reducing their ability to relearn key skills and putting them at increased risk of depression, a new...
Promise of faster, more accessible schizophrenia diagnosis, Rutgers study shows
Credit: Nick Romanenko / Rutgers University A portable device common in optometrists' offices may hold the key to faster diagnosis of schizophrenia, predicting relapse and...
UTA researcher’s technology could revolutionize testing, tracking of brain performance
Credit: UT Arlington A UTA engineering researcher has led the development of computer tests and games, that are both web-based and contained in a cell...
What happens to plasmalogens, the phospholipids nobody likes to think about
Credit: Richard Gross Alzheimer's disease patients lose up to 60% of a component called plasmalogen from the membranes of the cells in their brains, but...
Wars and clan structure may explain a strange biological event 7,000 years ago
Starting about 7,000 years ago, something weird seems to have happened to men: Over the next two millennia, recent studies suggest, their genetic diversity -specifically,...
Smell receptor fuels prostate cancer progression
Credit: Tatjana Abaffy DURHAM, N.C. -- When scientists first described the receptors responsible for our sense of smell, they naturally assumed that these chemical sensors...
Male thyroid cancer survivors face 50 percent higher risk of heart disease than women
WASHINGTON--Male thyroid cancer survivors have a nearly 50 percent higher risk of developing heart disease than women within five years of cancer diagnosis, according to...
How to code a functional molecular machine?
Credit: IBS An international team has developed a model that simulates protein evolution. Starting from stiff, unfunctional proteins, the computer model shows how evolving protein...
Novel power meter opens the door for in-situ, real-time monitoring of high-power lasers
Credit: A. Artusio-Glimpse/NIST >[email protected] Orlando, FL - High-power lasers are now widely used in additive manufacturing and laser welding systems to precisely cut and weld...
New research could improve wireless sensing and communication
Credit: Binghamton University, State University at New York BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - A research team led by faculty at Binghamton University, State University at New York...
Group making digital tool for documenting life on Earth adopts new organizational model
Credit: University of Kansas LAWRENCE -- For more than 20 years, scientists managing biological research collections around the world have used open-source Specify software for...
First time guidance on treating red diaper syndrome in otherwise healthy breastfed infants
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 29, 2018 -- A case study and subsequent literature review has concluded that absent signs...
In child-crippling mucolipidosis IV, drug shows hope in lab cultures
Credit: ML4.org Mucolipidosis IV debilitates afflicted children's nervous systems in their first year of life, steals their eyesight in their teens and takes their lives...
