Blood flow altered in brains of preterm newborns vs. full-term infants
Credit: Credit: M. Bouyssi-Kobar, et al., The Journal of Pediatrics. WASHINGTON – (Dec. 4, 2017) – Cerebral blood flow (CBF) of key regions of newborns'...
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Data analysis finds lower risk of infection with LASIK than with contacts over time
Credit: University of Tennessee Health Science Center Memphis, Tenn. – Which causes fewer eye infections – contact lens wear or LASIK surgery? While traditionally contacts...
Researchers use video gamelike test to study learning and recovery in…
Credit: Johns Hopkins Media A robotic arm and a virtual game were essential tools in a new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine. The...
High risk of falling — an early sign of Parkinson’s
IMAGE: Helena Nyström is a doctoral student at Umeå University, and co-author of an article on fall-related injuries published in PLOS Medicine. Credit: Umeå University...
Beyond bullying: Study shows damaging affects of multiple forms of victimization on school climate
Credit: Jeff Clarke School officials focused exclusively on bullying prevention efforts might want to consider the findings of a new study showing the highly damaging...
UNIST student receives AMOREPACIFIC Great Global Next Generation…
Credit: Han Bin Jeong (UNIST) Han Bin Jeong, a doctoral student in the School of Life Sciences at UNIST, has been selected to receive the...
TSRI-invented compound ozanimod shows positive results in late-stage…
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute February 21, 2017 – Results from a new Phase 3 study conducted by the Celgene Corporation demonstrate that ozanimod, a...
Southwestern Health Resources Names Senior Executive Officers
Top regional health care leaders tapped to lead key elements of the integrated network formed by UT Southwestern and Texas Health Newswise — DALLAS —...
BigH1 — The key histone for male fertility
Credit: Albert Carbonell, IRB Barcelona. Barcelona, Wednesday 13 December, 2017. – Researchers in the Chromatin Structure and Function Lab at the Institute for Research in...
Starving cancer cells of sugar — does it work?
Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School Previous research have shown that rapidly dividing cancer cells require higher levels of sugar than healthy cells. This dependency on sugar...
From stem cells to a functional heart: The role of the Mesp1 gene
Credit: Fabienne Lescroart Researchers at the Université libre de Bruxelles and University of Cambridge identified the role of key gene Mesp1 in the earliest step...
C-Path, CHDI, CDISC announce public review period for…
TUCSON, AZ, NEW YORK, NY, and AUSTIN, TX – September 11, 2017 – Critical Path Institute (C-Path), CHDI Foundation, Inc. (CHDI), and The Clinical Data...
Rapid responses, few adverse effects in targeted agent in Phase1 trial in rare blood…
ATLANTA – In a Phase 1 trial, patients with an advanced or aggressive form of systemic mastocytosis (AdvSM), a rare blood disorder, had rapid and...
No sex without kiss! Researchers discover how the brain controls sex
Credit: privat A research team led by Professor Julie Bakker at Liège University (Belgium) and Professor Ulrich Boehm at Saarland University (Germany) has made a...
Potential enzyme as therapeutic target for diabetes
Credit: Kanazawa University Abnormalities in glucose uptake by the liver (or hepatic glucose uptake; HGU) cause elevations in blood glucose levels following meals, a state...
