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...
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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...
Rothamsted partnership is ‘the industrial strategy in action’
Credit: Rothamsted Research Today saw the official opening of Timac Agro UK's new head office on the Rothamsted campus, by Bim Afolami, MP for Hitchin...
Ringing in ears keeps brain more at attention, less at rest, study…
Credit: Photo by Joyce Seay-Knoblauch CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Tinnitus, a chronic ringing or buzzing in the ears, has eluded medical treatment and scientific understanding. A...
The biological clock of plants
Credit: Screenshot: research_tv The Americans Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael W. Young were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for their...
Usutu virus is back — not only in blackbirds but also in humans
Credit: Georg Mair/Vetmeduni Vienna Usutu virus, a flavivirus of African origin, was first detected in Austria in 2001, when it caused a severe bird die-off,...
Crunch time for food security
Credit: © Rothamsted Research Feelings often run high where insects are concerned, with many people even squeamish to look on them, let alone touch or...
UMass Amherst Environmental Health researcher honored for…
Credit: courtesy Pablo Robles, Media Compass Photography AMHERST, Mass. – The Cornell Douglas Foundation, an environmental health and justice advocacy group based in Bethesda, Md.,...
Predicting cancer’s growth from few clues
DURHAM, N.C. — Mathematicians at Duke University are developing ways to help doctors predict how different cancers are likely to progress when actual measurements of...
Most cases of brain-damaged newborns not due to mismanaged deliveries
IMAGE: Jonathan Muraskas, MD, of Loyola University Medical Center led a study that found that most cases of brain-damaged newborns are not due to mismanaged...
A microRNA plays role in major depression
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A tiny RNA appears to play a role in producing major depression, the mental disorder that affects as many as 250 million...
Penn engineers develop filters that use nanoparticles to prevent slime…
Credit: University of Pennsylvania Filtration membranes are, at their core, sponge-like materials that have micro- or nanoscopically small pores. Unwanted chemicals, bacteria and even viruses...
