New neuron-like cells allow investigation into synthesis of vital…
Credit: Colleen Mangold, Penn State Neuron-like cells created from a readily available cell line have allowed researchers to investigate how the human brain makes a...
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Analysis reveals barriers to routine HIV testing in high-income…
HIV, the AIDS virus (yellow), infecting a human immune cell. Credit: Seth Pincus, Elizabeth Fischer and Austin Athman, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,...
Inflammatory signature of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Credit: Rohit Kohli, MBBS, MS, Children's Hospital Los Angeles A team of investigators led by Rohit Kohli, MBBS, MS, of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, has...
Bad air quality along utah’s wasatch front causes more than 200…
Credit: University of Utah Health SALT LAKE CITY – Air pollution trapped by winter inversions along Utah's Wasatch Front, the state's most populated region, is...
PolyU develops the first food hygiene standard certification system…
Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong is renowned as the culinary capital of Asia, with local catering establishments of unique styles providing great...
Ambush in a petri dish
Credit: Jan-Peter Kasper/FSU It is a gruesome spectacle that meets the eyes of Prasad Aiyar as he looks down the microscope. The doctoral candidate from...
Queen’s University Belfast research could see exercise as a prescribed medicine
Queen’s University Belfast are taking part in a global trial to test whether exercise should be prescribed to treat patients with advanced prostate cancer. The...
UCLA receives $5 million grant for sharing research on AIDS and…
Credit: Enrique Rivero/UCLA The National Institute on Drug Abuse has awarded $5 million to researchers at UCLA to develop a resource and data center for...
Novel antibacterial wound cover could prevent thousands of infections…
Credit: Pixabay Amsterdam, May 1, 2017 – A new type of wound dressing could improve thousands of people's lives, by preventing them from developing infections....
Study provides new guidelines for assessing severity of head and neck…
Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES – Jan. 24, 2018 – Cedars-Sinai investigators have developed a new, more accurate set of guidelines for assessing the severity of...
Mexico sees heart failure improvements with diet and exercise
Acapulco, Mexico 21 Nov. 2015: Doctors in Mexico have shown the benefits of a healthy diet and exercise in patients with heart failure, in research...
Researchers call for hospitals to establish bereavement programs
Backed by a growing body of research, investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are calling for all hospitals to establish bereavement programs for families of deceased...
UGA researchers discover a drug for a tropical disease
Researchers at the University of Georgia are working to find the fastest way possible to treat and cure human African trypanosomiasis, long referred to as...
Good nutrition, physical training and mental exercises can reverse…
Credit: National University of Singapore Physical frailty is common among the elderly and is strongly associated with cognitive impairment, dementia and adverse health outcomes such...
$3.2M NIH award to Wayne State to improve asthma care/outcomes in African American youth
Credit: Julie O'Connor, Wayne State University DETROIT – A research team led by Deborah Ellis, Ph.D., professor of family medicine and public health sciences in...
