Disease resistance successfully spread from modified to wild mosquitoes
Credit: NIAID WHAT: Using genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes to reduce or prevent the spread of infectious diseases is a new but rapidly expanding field of...
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Man with quadriplegia employs injury bridging technologies to move again — just by thinking
Credit: Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland FES Center CLEVELAND–Bill Kochevar grabbed a mug of water, drew it to his lips and drank through the straw. His...
Dying patients who received palliative care visited the ER less
Credit: American College of Emergency Physicians WASHINGTON — Community-based palliative care — care delivered at home, not the hospital — was associated with a 50...
When push comes to injury: What pushing a wheelchair does to your back
Credit: Photo courtesy of Eric Weston, The Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio–When you push someone in a wheelchair, you may be hurting your back without...
UCLA neuroscientists improve human memory by electrically stimulating brain
Neuroscientists at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have discovered precisely where and how to electrically stimulate the human brain to enhance people’s...
Study finds access to specialists in Affordable Care Act plans may be inadequate
While 12 million Americans are enrolled in health care networks through the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) insurance marketplace, a recent study in the Journal of...
Salk’s Reuben Shaw receives National Cancer Institute Outstanding Investigator Award
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA — (Aug. 1, 2017) Salk Professor Reuben Shaw has received the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Outstanding Investigator Award (OIA), which...
Baycrest creates first Canadian Brain Health Food Guide for adults
Credit: Baycrest Health Sciences Baycrest scientists have led the development of the first Canadian Brain Health Food Guide to help adults over 50 preserve their...
The critical importance of pace in long-distance races
Credit: Jordan Santos-Concejero. UPV/EHU The European Journal of Applied Physiology has published an article by the lecturer Jordan Santos-Concejero of the UPV/EHU's Department of Physical...
The main switch
Credit: Institute for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology During differentiation of pluripotent stem cells to cardiomyocytes, the three-dimensional folding of the DNA reorganizes it..
Scientists block the siren call of two aggressive cancers
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 23, 2018) – Aggressive cancers like glioblastoma and metastatic breast cancer have in common a...
Can patients record doctor’s visits? What does the law say?
Credit: The Dartmouth Institute Traffic stops, office conversations, and even doctor's visits–more and more people today are choosing to record life's encounters. If you are...
How enzymes communicate
Credit: Source: Bernd Fakler The enzymes nitric oxide (NO) synthase (NOS1) and protein kinase C (PKC) play an important role in a variety of signal...
NIH-led effort uses implementation science to reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission
An emerging field, known as implementation science, may help reduce the nearly 150,000 instances of mother-to-child HIV transmissions that occur annually around the world, mostly...
Old World monkeys could be key to a new, powerful rheumatoid arthritis therapy
Credit: Keck School of Medicine of USC LOS ANGELES – In the quest for a new and more effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, researchers from...
