Breakthrough in controlling DNA-based robots
COLUMBUS, Ohio--Researchers have devised a magnetic control system to make tiny DNA-based robots move on demand--and much faster than recently possible. In the journal Nature...
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Despite fewer looking for work, gains continue for Americans with disabilities
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ - June 1, 2018. Job gains continued for Americans with disabilities in May, although fewer were looking for work,...
Penn Medicine Neuroscientist receives Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award
PHILADELPHIA-- Shinjae Chung, PhD, an assistant professor of Neuroscience in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named a recipient...
Finances are a major motivating factor in patient avoidance of diagnostic testing
Credit: KIRSTY CHALLEN, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS, UNITED KINGDOM. DES PLAINES, IL--Patient preferences for diagnostic testing differed significantly across levels of..
Study reveals brain activity patterns underlying fluent speech
When we speak, we engage nearly 100 muscles, continuously moving our lips, jaw, tongue, and throat to shape our breath into the fluent sequences of...
Most hospitals now require workers to get flu shots — except those that treat veterans
ANN ARBOR, MI - In just a few short months, hospitals across the country will start their annual push to make sure their workers get...
One in every 5 deaths in young adults is opioid-related in the United States: Study
Credit: St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, June 1, 2018 - One out of every five deaths among young adults in the United States is related to...
Phase I trial finds experimental drug safe in treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Reporting results from a first-in-human phase I clinical trial, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have found that treatment with cirmtuzumab,...
The advances in artificial intelligence for longevity to be presented at the CogX 2018
Friday, June 1st, 2018, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based company specializing in the application of next-generation artificial intelligence for drug discovery, biomarker developmen..
Mobile app for autism screening yields useful data
Credit: Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- A Duke study of an iPhone app to screen young children for signs of autism has found that the...
New in the Hastings Center Report, May-June 2018
Genetic Privacy, Disease Prevention, and the Principle of Rescue Madison K. Kilbride People who undergo genetic testing sometimes discover that they carry mutations that increase...
New study finds pitcher injuries increase as pitch count rises
Credit: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center More than half of high school baseball pitchers report experiencing pain in their throwing arms during the...
Arthur edits survival guide for anesthesiology residents
Credit: Phil Jones, Augusta University Senior Photographer - Dr. Mary Arthur, director of the anesthesiology residency program at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta...
Zn-InsP6 complex can enhance excretion of radioactive strontium from the body
Credit: Kanazawa University 90Sr (t1/2 = 29.1 y) is one of the most important nuclear fission elements. After the nuclear power plant disasters of Chernobyl...
The Lancet: A warning and an opportunity: The WHO Independent High-Level Commission on non-communicable diseases
It poses a stark warning that the Sustainable Development Goal for NCDs - to reduce premature deaths from NCDs by a third by 2030 and...
