Hidden hearing loss revealed by UConn School of Medicine researchers
Credit: Janine Gelineau/UConn Health Two researchers at UConn School of Medicine have developed a new hearing test that can identify hearing loss or deficits in...
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Biologists use fossils to pinpoint when mammal and dinosaur ancestors became athletes
Credit: Photomicrograph by Adam Huttenlocker, wood mouse by Anne Burges, African clawed frog by Tim Vickers. Many mammals and birds are remarkable athletes; mice work...
Wayne State University leads groundbreaking research on preterm birth
DETROIT - Preterm birth -- birth before 37 weeks of pregnancy -- affects up to one in every six births in the United States and...
NJIT’s Sirkar named a 2016 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
NJIT's Kamalesh Sirkar, a distinguished professor of chemical engineering acclaimed for his innovations in industrial membrane technology used to separate and purify air, water and...
Histologic classification impacts SBRT treatment in early-stage lung cancer patients
DENVER - Early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with squamous cell carcinoma (SqCC) have a significantly higher rate of local failure after stereotactic body...
Promising discovery for a non-invasive early detection of Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: : Dr. Ricardo B. Maccioni December 22nd, 2016 - A discovery of high relevance in medical research will be published in Volume 55, number...
Do you burn more fat in the cold? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 2016 -- With the holidays in full swing, all of those feasts and festivities can lead to...
Northeastern and Facebook partner on next generation research projects
FaceÂbook announced on Wednesday that NorthÂeastern is one of 17 research uniÂverÂsiÂties selected to partner with the comÂpany on next genÂerÂaÂtion, joint techÂnology projects. The...
Moffitt researchers use mathematics to explain treatment resistance
TAMPA, Fla. (Dec. 22, 2016) - Modern medicine and treatments for bacterial infections and cancer have significantly increased life spans and improved quality-of-life. However, many...
Gene test could pinpoint patients sensitive to new type of cancer drug
Testing for a gene commonly mutated in ovarian cancers could pick out patients who will respond well to a promising new class of cancer drugs,...
New precision medicine tool helps optimize cancer treatment
NEW YORK NY (December 22, 2016)--Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have created a computational tool that can rapidly predict which genes are implicated in...
Existence of a short-lived tetraneutron predicted
Credit: Andrey Shirokov A member of the Lomonosov Moscow State University together with his colleagues, using new interaction between neutrons, have theoretically justified the low-energy...
Hubble chases a small stellar galaxy in the Hunting Dog
Credit: Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA On a clear evening in April of 1789, the renowned astronomer William Herschel continued his unrelenting survey of the...
Feeding the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
Credit: Image: NASA/UMass/D.Wang et al. Inset: NASA/STScI. Scientists at Princeton University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed..
A smarter, safer way to reduce corrosion
Credit: Swansea University A smarter, safer way to reduce corrosion: Swansea University steel experts win Royal Society award for research breakthrough Better protection against rust...
