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Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery The prognosis for patients diagnosed with scleroderma - an autoimmune disease characterized by fibrosis of the skin - is not...

New method for performing aortic valve replacement proves successful in high risk patients

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a new, less invasive way to perform transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), a procedure widely...

RIT awarded $1.8 million NIH grant to develop ultrathin membranes for tissue engineering

Credit: Graphic by Noah Greene and Joe Olmsted Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are advancing tissue engineering through new work in developing improved porous...

Spooky new fungal disease on southern golf courses unmasked

Credit: (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Kathleen Phillips) COLLEGE STATION -- A turfgrass disease that looked like an ink spill on many southern golf courses...

Millions of loci from a thousand plant transcriptomes

Scientists face many constraints when embarking on new projects. Often the biggest constraint is a small budget. This is why a team of scientists led...

Study reveals the brain regulates social behavior differently in males and females

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA-The brain regulates social behavior differently in males and females, according to a new study published today in the Proceedings of...

Data indicate significant impact of NIH African bioethics training programs

From HIV to Malaria to Ebola, health and medical research with human participants in Africa -- and the ethical evaluation of that research -- has...

Less than half of cervical cancer patients receive standard-of-care treatment

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Standard-of-care treatment for locally advanced cervical cancer includes radiation, chemotherapy and brachytherapy (in which radiation is implanted inte..

Balancing time & space in the brain: New model holds promise for predicting brain dynamics

PITTSBURGH--For as long as scientists have been listening in on the activity of the brain, they have been trying to understand the source of its...

CU Boulder: A new window on mitochondria division

Credit: Matthew West. October 31, 2016 Putting the squeeze on mitochondria: The final cut A new University of Colorado Boulder study shows for the first...

Making lasers cool again

Credit: Lehigh University Once the preferred weapon of B-movie madmen and space-fiction heroes alike, the laser -- a device that generates an intense beam of...

Web-based cognitive exercises improve memory and attention in cancer survivors

"Cognitive rehabilitation should be a core part of cancer survivorship care, as cognitive symptoms are very common and have a profound effect on people's lives....

Risk factors for prostate cancer aren’t what we think, SWOG study shows

Portland, Oregon, Oct. 31, 2016 - When it comes to prostate cancer biopsies, risk and reality don't always match up, according to research published online...

Low-oxygen environment leads to heart regeneration in mice, UTSW research shows

Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - October 31, 2016 - Normal, healthy heart muscle is well-supplied with oxygen-rich blood. But UT Southwestern Medical Center...

New $3 million NCI grant at OU aims to help people stop smoking