An unexpected discovery in a central line
About a year and a half ago, a 6-year-old boy arrived at Children's Emergency Department after accidently removing his own gastrointestinal feeding tube. He wasn't...
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Microscopic oxygen bubbles could help improve cancer therapeutics, speed wound healing
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University-patented technology shows promise in using microscopic bubbles filled with oxygen to help with various medical treatments, including improving...
Why alcohol, sugar lead to thirst
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - April 12, 2018 - Why does drinking alcohol or consuming sugar make us thirsty? An international study of mice in...
Immune-engineered device targets chemo-resistant lymphoma
ITHACA, N.Y. - Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer that is diagnosed in the U.S. more than 70,000 times annually, arises from overly proliferating immune cells within...
Protein moonlighting
In 2013, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three scientists for their contributions to uncovering the mechanisms governing vesicle transport in...
From the cloud to the clinic, wide range of St. Jude research presented at AACR 2018
Cloud computing, "exhausted" T cells, breast cancer risk in childhood cancer survivors and clinical trial design for CAR-T therapy in solid tumors are among the...
Remnants of antibiotics persist in treated farm waste, research finds
Credit: Credit: Diana Aga BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Each year, farmers in the U.S. purchase tens of millions of pounds of antibiotics that are approved for...
Peptide-based biogenic dental product may cure cavities
Credit: University of Washington Researchers at the University of Washington have designed a convenient and natural product that uses proteins to rebuild tooth enamel and...
UW’s Kristina Olson wins NSF Waterman Award for studies of children’s social development
Credit: Dennis Wise, University of Washington The National Science Foundation today named Kristina Olson, University of Washington associate professor of psychology, winner of this year's...
A simple tool for doubling down on disease control
Credit: Georgetown University Medical Center WASHINGTON -- It's a simple idea: Pair the control of a neglected tropical disease with a more prominent disease that...
Inhibiting metabolism found to be effective in treating aggressive form of lung cancer
FINDINGS Researchers from UCLA and Long Beach Memorial Medical Center have found that two targeted therapies could be more effective if used in combination to...
UMass Amherst geoscientist on NASA mission to improve astronaut experience
Credit: Will Daniels AMHERST, Mass. - Geoscientist Will Daniels, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Climate System Research Center, is set to...
Researchers optimize lung stem cell engineering process
Boston - The Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) at Boston University and Boston Medical Center has engineered two new categories of lung epithelial cells in...
LJI researchers are one step closer to an effective anti-atherosclerosis vaccine
Credit: Dr. Klaus Ley, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology LA JOLLA, CA--In the disease atherosclerosis, cholesterol-containing plaques form in vessel walls, causing arteries...
CU Anschutz scientists awarded $3.8 million Department of Defense grant
AURORA, Colo. (April 12, 2018) - Scientists from the Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine are part of...
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