New book on Cilia from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
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Discovering the origin of mouth and anus
Credit: Courtesy photo from Jose Maria Martin-Duran and Andreas Hejnol Animals often form either the mouth or the anus from an opening that appears in...
Researchers build a patch to help cardiac muscle beat more strongly…
Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute A research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has been awarded a $452,000 National Institutes of Health grant to bioengineer a...
UMass Amherst research investigating pollutant effects on embryos in three model species
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Environmental health scientist Alicia Timme-Laragy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently received a $1.9 million grant from the...
Readily available drug cocktail may help prevent sepsis shock and death
Credit: CHEST GLENVIEW, IL, June 26, 2017 – Sepsis presents a major challenge for health care providers, especially in low-income countries where the mortality rate...
Promising results using silver-releasing scaffolds in MRSA infection…
Credit: © 2017 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, January 4, 2017–Researchers developed a biocompatible scaffold capable of controlled-release of silver ions and...
Does the titanium dioxide in food and nanomaterials affect the gut microbiome?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Oct. 3, 2017 — A new study has shown that the titanium dioxide (TiO2) frequently used...
Penn/CHOP study helps inform interventions for global road traffic injury crisis
Credit: Penn Nursing (PHILADELPHIA) Jan. 30, 2017 – Road traffic injuries are a major cause of disability and are responsible for more than one million...
Neural signature for fibromyalgia may aid diagnosis, treatment
Credit: Image: Cognitive and Affective Control Laboratory / University of Colorado Boulder. University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered a brain signature that identifies fibromyalgia...
ISHLT issues updated candidacy criteria for heart transplantation
New York, NY, January 7, 2016 – To determine patient eligibility for heart transplant, the International Society for Heart Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) maintains a list...
Study: Blood vessels store, secrete key blood-clotting protein
HOUSTON — (Nov. 2, 2015) — Rice University scientists have solved a long-standing mystery about where the body stores and deploys blood-clotting factor VIII, a...
Females seeking a sex partner can tell whether males experienced…
Credit: Jonathan Cohen/Binghamton University BINGHAMTON, NY – Sexual preference is influenced by males' adolescent social stress history and social status, according to a research team...
Lyme disease researchers seek consensus as number of cases grows
Credit: Catherine Bouchard Scientists have built a large body of knowledge about Lyme disease over the past 40 years, yet controversies remain and the number...
New study explains why MRSA ‘superbug’ kills influenza patients
Credit: Sun et al., 2016 Researchers have discovered that secondary infection with the Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacterium (or "superbug") often kills influenza patients beca..
Shortness of breath is an important signal of potential disease
Credit: The University of Gothenburg Shortness of breath is an often overlooked symptom of what may be heart failure or COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)....
