Growing teeth and a backbone: Studies trace early origins of skeletal tissues
Credit: Katharine Criswell and Robert Criswell WOODS HOLE, Mass.– Two new studies on the evolutionary origin of teeth and of vertebra further illuminate the human...
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Veterinary surgeons perform first-known brain surgery to treat…
Credit: Courtesy of Mystic Aquarium. GRAFTON, Mass. (December 27, 2017)– A neurosurgical team at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University has successfully performed...
Septic shock patients have better outcomes when their heart rates are…
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Researchers at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City, along with researchers from four other centers, including Harvard Medical School, have...
‘Wing prints’ may identify individual bats as effectively as fingerprints identify people
Credit: The image was used as Figure 1 in their study, 'Bat wing biometrics: using collagen-elastin bundles in bat wings as a unique individual identifier.'...
With community health center fund expiration looming, health center…
Credit: Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative WASHINGTON, DC and NEW YORK (September 14, 2017)–If Congress fails to renew a critical fund for community...
Racial, ethnic disparities in pediatric readmission rates for chronic disease vary by…
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON – Disparities in pediatric readmission rates for chronic conditions such as asthma, depression, diabetes, migraines, and seizures vary, with...
Garret FitzGerald awarded an honorary fellowship by British Pharmacological Society
Credit: Sabina Louise Pierce PHILADELPHIA — Garret A. FitzGerald, MD, FRS, director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics in the Perelman School of...
Salk Institute ranked #2 in world for life sciences collaborations by…
Credit: Nature Research LA JOLLA–(November 17, 2016) The Salk Institute ranks second in the world for high-quality, high-impact scientific collaborations in the life sciences, and...
There’s a close association between magnetic systems and certain states of brain…
Credit: UGRdivulga Scientists from the University of Granada (UGR) have proven for the first time that there is a close relationship between several emerging phenomena...
Lose fat, preserve muscle: Weight training beats cardio for older…
Credit: WFU / Ken Bennett Weight training or cardio? For older adults trying to slim down, pumping iron might be the way to go. A...
Free lung-cancer screening in the Augusta area finds more than double the cancer rate of…
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 9, 2017) – The first year of free lung cancer screening in the Augusta, Georgia area found more than...
Antibodies from Ebola survivor protect mice and ferrets against related viruses
Credit: NIAID WHAT: The fight to contain the 2013-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa was hampered by the lack of an effective treatment or vaccine....
Rice University biologists create toolkit for tuning genetic circuits
Credit: National Institutes of Health Rice University scientists have created a toolkit for synthetic biologists who need to precisely tune the input and output levels...
CSU uses test for chronic wasting disease to study brain ailments in…
Credit: CSU Photography Wildlife disease experts at Colorado State University are investigating whether a test developed to detect early-stage chronic wasting disease in deer might...
Study: High tolerance for wildlife exists around Indian reserves despite continued losses
Credit: WCS-India A new study from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), Duke University, and the Centre for Wildlife Studies in India finds that communities living near...
