Look! Down in the petri dish! It’s a superplatelet!
Credit: Michael Smith Laboratories Blood platelets have one main job: Stop bleeding by forming clots. Sometimes, however, these tiny cell fragments fail when they are...
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Emergency physician honored at #AGS18 for research to combat abuse of older people
Credit: (C) 2018, American Geriatrics Society Advancing care for older people across health specialties, the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and the AGS Health in Aging...
AGS honors expert & emerging geriatrics leaders at 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting (#AGS18)
Credit: (C) 2018, American Geriatrics Society The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) annually honors researchers, clinicians, educators, and emerging health professionals who have made outstanding co..
ArunA biomedical study published in Stroke, exosomes improved recovery in stroked pigs
ArunA Biomedical today announced the publication of data demonstrating that neural stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles (NSC EVs) improved tissue and functional recovery in pigs following...
How advanced nanotechnology can improve cancer care
A new Tel Aviv University study addresses the challenges of nanoparticle-based cancer-targeting strategies. It also suggests ways of refocusing the collaborative work of cancer researchers...
Imagining an object can change how we hear sounds later
Seeing an object at the same time that you hear sound coming from somewhere else can lead to the "ventriloquist illusion" and its aftereffect, but...
Russian-born Research Results in Pharmacology moves to high-tech journal platform ARPHA
Credit: Research Results in Pharmacology and ARPHA Since 2015, Belgorod National Research University's forward-thinking open-access and peer-reviewed scholarly journal Research Result: Pharmac..
Duel of the inflammatory master regulators: Insights for drug discovery
Credit: from Hudson et al Nature Communications 2018 Anti-inflammatory drugs such as dexamethasone can have harmful side effects on the skin, bones and metabolism. Structural...
INRS awarded over $1.57 million in funding for new research facilities
INRS will receive over $1.57 million in funding for four new facilities to produce innovative research and train highly qualified personnel in strategic sectors. The...
ACR responds to HHS benefit and payment parameters final rule
Washington, D.C. - The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) today expressed concern that the 2019 Benefit and Payment Parameters final rule allowing states to select...
Most widely prescribed diabetes drug improves nicotine withdrawal symptoms in animal model
Credit: Julie Blendy, Ph.D., Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; PNAS PHILADELPHIA - Metformin, the most widely used medication for diabetes, has also been...
Marker substance for research into brain diseases
Researchers from ETH Zurich, University Hospital Zurich and the University of Münster are the first to develop a marker substance that makes NMDA receptors on...
Study explores carbohydrates’ impact on head, neck cancers
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Consuming high amounts of carbohydrates and various forms of sugar during the year prior to treatment...
New bacteria-resistant materials get go-ahead for trials on humans
A medical device coated with new bacteria resistant materials, discovered by a team at the University of Nottingham, has been approved for use by hospitals...
Overestimated mutation rate
Scientific evidence at the start of the last major Ebola epidemic in West Africa that suggested the virus would change exceptionally rapidly was probably due...
