Deadly duet
Credit: Bastian Braeuning / TUM Pore-forming toxins are common bacterial poisons. They attack organisms by introducing holes in cell membranes. A team of scientists at...
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Antipsychotic medications may result in increased risk of gestational diabetes
An increasing number of women are treated with antipsychotic drugs during pregnancy even though safety questions remain unanswered. Certain antipsychotic drugs used to treat bipolar...
Researchers teach robots to touch
(University of Helsinki) Touching and grasping objects are surprisingly complex processes, an area where contemporary robots are still clumsy. Principal investigator Jukka Häkkinen, Ph.D., and...
OU-led research team accelerating antibiotic discovery with $5.7 million NIH grant
Credit: University of Oklahoma University of Oklahoma professors, Helen Zgurskaya and Valentin Rybenkov, and team are addressing the challenge and critical need for new antibiotics...
Mayo Clinic implements Epic electronic health record at its Rochester campus
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic continues its move to a single, integrated electronic health record and billing system with the implementation of Epic at its...
Kidney cells from amniotic fluid obtained from cesarean section at delivery
Credit: Rahman MS, Spitzhorn LS, Wruck W, Hagenbeck C, Balan P, Graffmann N, Bohndorf M, Ncube A, Guillot PV, Fehm T, Adjaye J. The presence...
Study adds new evidence that infants track others’ mental states
Credit: Photo by Kaitlin Southworth CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A brain-imaging study offers new support for the idea that infants can accurately track other people's beliefs....
Brain activity helps explain diabetics’ negative feelings, risk for depression
Credit: Christopher Gannon, Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - For millions of Americans who are obese and living with diabetes or prediabetes, feelings of sadness,...
C-Path receives COA qualification from FDA for the non-small cell lung cancer SAQ
TUCSON, Ariz. - May 7, 2018 -- Critical Path Institute's (C-Path) Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) Consortium announces its second clinical outcome assessment (COA) qualification from the...
Application of human induced pluripotent stem cells in precision medicine
Researchers at Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have successfully demonstrated the use of human induced pluripotent stem...
Molecule that supports blood-cell production under dietary stress is identified
Credit: Kanazawa University The production of blood cells is regulated by so-called hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), which reside in bone marrow. It is known that...
A more affordable drug for neuroendocrine tumors diagnostics passing preclinical tests
Credit: Tomsk Polytechnic University Leading researchers, physicists, and materials scientists of the Research School of Chemistry & Applied Biomedical Sciences of Tomsk Polytechnic University are...
HKU AIDS Institute invents universal antibody drug for HIV-1 prevention and immunotherapy
Credit: The University of Hong Kong A research team led by scientists at AIDS Institute and Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine...
Carnivores in captivity give birth at the same time of year as those in the wild
Credit: (Image: Zoo Zürich / Enzo Franchini) Many species have a specific mating season when living in their natural habitat. The young ani-mals are usually...
New insights into blood vessel growth
FRANKFURT. How new blood vessels form in mammals, for example during development or after injury, was so far not known exactly. Scientists at the Goethe...
