Enormous promise for new parasitic infection treatment
Credit: The University of Manchester The human whipworm, which infects 500 million people and can damage physical and mental growth, is killed at egg and...
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Seasonal effects: ‘Winter foals’ are smaller than foals…
Credit: Juliane Kuhl/Vetmeduni Vienna Seasonal and diurnal rhythms determine the life cycle of many animal species. In equids this is not only true for wild...
Leading medical societies, health systems collaborate to improve geriatric emergency care
Shelley Lyford, president and CEO of the Gary and Mary West Health Institute Four national medical societies and nine leading health systems announced today they...
Study associates schizophrenia with defective processing of messenger…
Credit: Daniel Martins-de-Souza, University of Campinas Schizophrenia affects approximately 1% of the world population and is the main cause of psychiatric incapacitation. Despite its high...
Heat-loving Australian ants believe in diversity, hint 74 species new…
Credit: Dr. Brian Heterick The 'furnace ants' or 'honeypot ants' present a very large genus of ants, Melophorus, confined to Australia. Long believed to be...
Cedars-Sinai team develops risk assessment score to predict, help…
Credit: Cedars-Sinai Los Angeles — June 26, 2017 — A Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute investigator and his team have developed a new risk assessment tool that...
Zika infects the eyes of adult mice
Mouse models of Zika infection in adults confirm that the virus can infect specific regions of the eye, resulting in uveitis and conjunctivitis–a symptom observed...
A visual database of human plasma compounds
Credit: Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization Researchers in Japan have created a database of metabolites from blood samples collected from over 5,000 Japanese volunteers, making it...
Malignant network makes brain cancer resistant
Incurable astrocytomas, including the particularly malignant glioblastomas, diffusively grow like mycelium into healthy brain tissue. Therefore, these tumors cannot be completely removed by surgery an..
Scientists and students tackle omics at NASA workshop
Credit: NASA As Houston gears up for the Super Bowl, scientists and students are tackling Omics during the 2017 NASA Human Research Program (HRP) Investigators'...
Kenan Charitable Trust awards $1.5 million to UNC Health Affairs…
Credit: UNC School of Nursing Chapel Hill, N.C. — July 5, 2017 — The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust has awarded the School of...
New blood spot test used internationally in fight against HIV
Researchers at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at CU Anschutz have developed a technique that estimates an HIV-negative patient's adherence to drugs...
Zika virus alerts may have prompted uptick in abortion requests in Latin America
PRINCETON, N.J.–Pregnant women in Latin American countries were more likely to seek an abortion after receiving health alerts about Zika virus, according to a study...
Eight children born after uterus transplants
Credits: Johan Wingborg Eight children born – and the first robot-assisted operation performed. These are some of the results of 18 years of research at...
First-in-man trial of MERS vaccine begins at Walter Reed Army…
SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) began vaccinations today in a Phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate the safety...
