Do we subconsciously judge face-likeness?
Credit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The research team at the Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory of the Toyohashi University of...
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Key protein in sperm tail assembly identified
Credit: Photo courtesy of S. Llamazares / Gonzalez Lab The group led by ICREA Research Professor Cayetano Gonzalez at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine...
Genome surgery for eye disease moves closer to reality
SAN FRANCISCO - May 11, 2018 -- Researchers from Columbia University have developed a new technique for the powerful gene editing tool CRISPR to restore...
Scientists screen molecules for promise as new prostate cancer drugs
Cancer researchers at the University of Bath have measured systematically how efficient molecules are at suppressing the activity of a protein associated with prostate and...
Increased overweight in children of mothers who drank coffee while pregnant
Credit: Photo by Pontus Sundén A study published in the BMJ Open journal shows that even moderate coffee consumption during pregnancy, one to two cups...
Should patients in remission stop taking expensive Rheumatoid Arthritis drugs?
Stopping expensive biological drugs used to treat rheumatoid arthritis in patients who are in remission or who have low disease activity can save considerable costs,...
Oral drug treatment helps protect cancer patients from potentially deadly blood clots
Credit: University of warwick Oral drug treatment helps protect cancer patients from potentially deadly DVT and pulmonary embolism Cancer patients are at high risk of...
Chronic medical conditions are common in women with urinary incontinence
New research published in BJU International indicates that women with urinary incontinence often have other chronic conditions. The findings have important implications for prevention and...
Many older adults discharged from the hospital receive inappropriate prescriptions
In a British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology study of 259 older adults discharged from a general medical hospital, more than 4 in 5 patients were...
Many patients with rectal cancer may not need chemoradiotherapy
It's unclear whether all patients with advanced rectal cancer need chemoradiotherapy, or whether some can forego the treatment and therefore be spared its side effects....
Noninvasive brain stimulation leads to fine motor improvement after stroke
Stroke is common and accompanied by complex disabilities--such as lower and upper limb disability, speech impairment, and chronic post-stroke pain. An analysis of published studies...
Study finds new combined risk score more effectively predicts stroke risk in Afib patients
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute Doctors know patients with atrial fibrillation are at a higher risk of having a stroke, and now a new...
Taurine deficiency in sperm causes male infertility, study finds
Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba - Sperm are highly specialized cells adapted to achieve a single goal: fertilize an egg. Along the road to fertilization...
Gadolinium deposition in the brain not dose dependent
Credit: Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles Investigators at Children's Hospital Los Angeles have determined that in children receiving gadolinium as a contrast agent...
Discovery of novel biomarker with remarkable specificity to rheumatoid arthritis
Tsukuba, Japan - Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disorder that occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks the body's tissues. Unlike the wear-and-tear damage...
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