Study reveals lack of supporting evidence for claims about fertility treatments
Many claims made by UK fertility clinics about the benefits of treatments beyond standard IVF procedures are not backed up by evidence, finds a study...
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Rockefeller University’s Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., named 2016 Vanderbilt Prize recipient
Credit: Mario Morgado/The Rockefeller University. Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., whose innovative use of reverse genetics has helped redefine the study of skin diseases and cancer stem...
NIAID-sponsored study to assess shorter-duration antibiotics in children
Physicians at five U.S. medical centers are planning to enroll up to 400 children in a clinical trial to evaluate whether a shorter course of...
Bullying rates remain higher for children with disabilities, even as they mature
COLUMBIA, Mo. - More than 22 percent of children ages 12-18 say they have been bullied in school within the last month; a significant portion...
Iraq-Afghanistan veterans with epilepsy more at risk of death
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, USA -- U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans (IAVs) with epilepsy were more than twice as likely to die between 2011 and...
Stem cells police themselves to reduce scarring, Stanford study finds
Treating mice with a compound that increases the expression of an inactive protein helped them heal from injury with less scarring, according to a study...
Study says CT use OK for some colon cancers, yet challenging for lymph node involvement
Leesburg, VA, Nov. 23, 2016 -- CT has good sensitivity for the detection of colon cancers with tumors that have spread beyond the bowel wall,...
RIT professor wins grants from the Moore Foundation
Rochester Institute of Technology professor Moumita Das has won seed funding for cutting-edge research that explores mitochondrial DNA and intercellular cargo transport. Das, an assistant...
Warwick and Waitrose tackle global food security together
Food security is at the heart of a new doctoral training collaboration between the University of Warwick and Waitrose, thanks to an award from the...
ADSA announces 2017 annual meeting symposia and workshops
Thanks to the hard work of the ADSA members who submitted proposals, the program committee chairs, and the chairs of the special and invited symposia...
Testing early warning signals for crises, in lakes
Wouldn't it be great if we could tell the state of an ecosystem or the like - whether it's healthy or heading for a crisis...
An exercise in good health
A new Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association led by Queen's University professor Robert Ross provides unequivocal evidence to confirm that cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF),...
How kids’ brains respond to a late night up
Any parent can tell you about the consequences of their child not getting enough sleep. But there is far less known about the details of...
Pine product offers fresh take on fine chemical synthesis
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Nov. 28, 2016) - The goop from pine trees that contains compounds known as terpenes is used in the...
New finding about a protein that enables our brains and muscles to talk
Credit: Phil Jones, Augusta University Senior Photographer AUGUSTA, Ga. (Nov. 28, 2016) - A huge colony of receptors must be optimally positioned and functioning on...
