NIST unveils forensic technique to measure mechanical properties of evidence
Credit: Delrio/NIST You may have seen it on CSI: The star examines hair from a crime scene and concludes its color or texture looks like...
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Tufts water diplomat awarded global prize for developing early warning system for cholera
Credit: Tufts University Shafiqul Islam, Sc.D., of Tufts University School of Engineering, has been awarded the 7th Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water...
Does your mind jump around, stay on task or get stuck?
During downtime, some of us daydream while others might focus on a to-do list, or get stuck in a negative loop. Psychology has traditionally defined...
Results of ReACT Trial presented at TCT & published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
WASHINGTON - November 1, 2016 - A randomized evaluation of routine follow-up coronary angiography after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) found that there was no long-term...
Anesthesia sedation practices for patients in the pediatric congenital cardiac cath lab
WASHINGTON--The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) and the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society (CCAS), today published recomm..
New study explains factors that influence the timing of infectious disease outbreaks
Credit: UGA The delay between the time when a disease outbreak becomes possible and when it actually happens depends chiefly on how frequently infection is...
ZSL honors WCS’s Dr. John Robinson with its Lifetime Achievement Award
Credit: O. Landgrand London, November 1, 2016 -- The ZSL (Zoological Society of London) Awards Committee has presented the ZSL Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr....
State’s 3 largest public research institutions to increase collaboration
The state's three largest public research institutions have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, which expresses the intent of the parties to increase research collaborations on...
PET imaging visualizes hard-to-diagnose cardiac amyloidosis
Credit: W. Phillip Law/Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia Reston, Virginia - Researchers at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, have demonstrated that cardiac amyloidosi..
Hospital for Special Surgery survey defines need for health outreach programs
Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), which has an Outpatient Center in Stamford, plans to increase outreach and educational programs to...
Two antibiotics fight bacteria differently than thought
Credit: Alexander Mankin, UIC Two widely prescribed antibiotics -- chloramphenicol and linezolid -- may fight bacteria in a different way from what scientists and doctors...
NSF supports completion of The Jefferson Project at Lake George Sensor Network
Credit: IBM Troy, N.Y. -- With support from the National Science Foundation, The Jefferson Project at Lake George is poised to complete the most powerful...
TSRI scientists develop new toolkit for exploring protein biology
Credit: Biomedical Graphics LA JOLLA, CA - November 1, 2016 - Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a broadly useful method to...
Database captures most extensive urban tree sizes, growth rates across United States
Credit: U.S. Forest Service Albany, Calif. - Sometimes in the cramped environs of U.S. cities every inch counts, especially if attempting to make space for...
New drug combination has potential to significantly improve chemotherapy success
Credit: UGA Athens, Ga. - University of Georgia researchers have found a way to enhance chemotherapy's cancer-killing powers, bringing science one step closer to a...
