For smokers with HIV, smoking may now be more harmful than HIV itself
Among people living with HIV who smoke cigarettes, smoking may now shorten their lifespan more than HIV itself, according to a new modeling study published...
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Zucara Therapeutics receives cash injection to advance novel diabetes drug therapy
VANCOUVER and TORONTO, Canada (November 3, 2016) -- Zucara Therapeutics Inc., a pre-clinical life sciences company advancing a novel long-term therapeutic approach to prevent hypoglycemia...
Study highlights a new threat to bees worldwide
Credit: Marine Biological Association. Particularly under threat are honey bees, which are as vital to our food systems as the crops they pollinate, and which...
Rewritable material could help reduce paper waste
Credit: American Chemical Society Even in today's digital age, the world still relies on paper and ink, most of which ends up in landfills or...
Gulf oil spill research featured in special issue
Credit: Coastal Waters Consortium The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was not only the largest ecological disaster in the U.S., but it has become the most...
A lot of blood, for no reason? Review shows that common, costly clot test has few benefits
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- A half billion dollars - at least -- gets spent each year on blood tests to see which hospital patients have...
The calling card of aggressive thyroid cancer
Credit: Melissa Fabrizio (Edmonton) A new discovery from University of Alberta scientists represents an important milestone in the fight against thyroid cancer. In a study...
Strathclyde researchers go to the heart of blood vessels in £1.4 million research
(University of Strathclyde) Scientists at the University of Strathclyde are developing tiny devices that capture images of signals as they travel the innermost layer of...
Towards better hip replacements
Credit: Owen Egan Some potentially good news for aging Baby Boomers: researchers believe that they have developed a hip replacement that will last longer and...
UT Austin psychology researchers map neurological process of learning, deciding
Credit: Image by Michael Mack, the University of Toronto. AUSTIN, Texas --Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin can now map what happens neurologically...
Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, November 2016
To arrange for an interview with a researcher, please contact the Communications staff member identified at the end of each tip. For more information on...
WHO Trauma Care Checklist improves care for injured patients
Injury is responsible for more than 10 percent of the global burden of disease, killing more people each year than HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined....
Researchers identify group of brain structural networks linked to loss of cognitive function
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, November 2, 2016--The decreased expression of some structural covariance networks (SCNs) in the brain is associated...
Brain volume predicts successful weight loss in the elderly
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Nov. 2, 2016 - If you're trying to lose weight, what are your chances of success? Your brain may hold the key....
Nanosensors on the alert for terrorist threats
Credit: the MIPT press office Scientists from the Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICP RAS) and the Moscow Institute...
