New meta-analysis: Recreational football is broad-spectrum medicine
Credit: The Danish FA It is now well-established that physical fitness and resting heart rate are a strong mortality predictors and that exercise training is...
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Molecule identified that helps give resident T cells in the skin their…
Credit: Photograph courtesy of Medical University of South Carolina immunologist Dr. Chrystal M. Paulos and Dartmouth's Dr. Mary Jo Turk. The molecule CD103 is key...
Dr. Chiaravalloti of Kessler Foundation to study effect of cognitive…
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ – January 17, 2018 – Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Traumatic Brain Injury Research at Kessler Foundation, and director...
Smart physical training in virtual reality
CITEC is funding this large-scale research project with 1.6 million Euro and it will run until 2017. During a project presentation the researchers showcased what...
Children’s Research Institute identifies emergency response…
DALLAS – November 16, 2015 – Scientists at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have determined how the body responds during...
Stem cells from muscle could address diabetes-related circulation…
Credit: Image courtesy of W. Lawrence Dobrucki CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Stem cells taken from muscle tissue could promote better blood flow in patients with diabetes...
Activated T-cells drive post-heart attack heart failure
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Chronic inflammation after a heart attack can promote heart failure and death. University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have now...
New technology helps pinpoint sources of water contamination
Credit: Berkeley Lab When the local water management agency closes your favorite beach due to unhealthy water quality, how reliable are the tests they base...
First transcatheter implant for diastolic heart failure successful
Credit: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Results presented today at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions and published in Circulation show that a...
International efforts needed to save world’s largest mammals,…
A team of conservation biologists is calling for a worldwide strategy to prevent the unthinkable: the extinction of the world's largest mammal species. In a...
These ring-tailed lemurs raise a ‘stink’ when they flirt with potential mates
Credit: Devin Sturgeon A U of T Scarborough study finds that a unique ritual performed by male ring-tailed lemurs may come at a significant physical...
Age-old secret that Hollywood celebrities try to keep from you has…
Credit: Lauren Mulligan/Wits University Hollywood celebrities spend large amounts of dollars on it. The hunky stud at the local pub thinks he knows it. But...
Global risk of Madagascar’s pneumonic plague epidemic is limited
Credit: Tsuzuki S., et al., Eurosurveillance, Nov. 16, 2017 Mathematical models have proven the risk of the on-going pneumonic plague epidemic in Madagascar spreading elsewhere...
What role can schools play in preventing and responding to teen dating violence?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 12, 2017-A nationwide study of school principals has shown that while the majority had assisted...
Leaving the electrical grid in the Upper Peninsula
Known for snow rather than sun, Michigan's Upper Peninsula could still support a significant network of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy systems. Solar energy alone in...
