Stanford researchers develop new compound to reduce tumor growth
A baseball glove is typically made from leather. If a new design made gloves more attractive to baseballs -- catching them at higher rates than...
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Nocturnal & GW awarded $2.27m grant for preclinical development of cardiac imaging system
DURHAM, N.C. (Nov. 28, 2016) -- Nocturnal Product Development, LLC, received a prestigious Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer Program award from the National Institutes...
UTSW researchers’ international study zeros in on gene that limits desire to drink alcohol
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS, Nov. 28, 2016 - In the largest study of its kind, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers and colleagues in Europe identified...
Taking a closer look at online social networking and depression
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2016 New Rochelle, NY, November 28, 2016--While frequency and duration of online social networking may have a negative effect...
With climate change, not all wildlife population shifts are predictable
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Wildlife ecologists who study the effects of climate change assume, with support from several studies, that warming temperatures caused...
Does hormonal contraception alleviate premenstrual symptoms?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2016 New Rochelle, NY, November 28, 2016--The results of a new study designed to compare the severity and timing...
VirusDetect, a new bioinformatics pipeline for virus identification released
ITHACA, NY-- Researchers studying the viruses that affect agricultural production or human health now have a new tool for investigating where viruses have spread, on...
UMD researchers crack the code of a deadly virus
Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) is an unforgiving killer of horses, donkeys and zebras, resulting in mortality as high as 80 percent of infected animals....
Cultivation technologies benefit ultradwarf bermudagrass
MISSISSIPPI STATE, MS - Researchers at Mississippi State University say turfgrass professionals could benefit from more research on how new or alternative technologies compare with...
Marine incentives programs may replace ‘doom and gloom’ with hope
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Incentives that are designed to enable smarter use of the ocean while also protecting marine ecosystems can and do work, and offer...
William Small, Jr., M.D., named Loyola Senior Scientist of the Year
Credit: Loyola Medicine MAYWOOD, IL - William Small, Jr., MD, FACRO, FACR, FASTRO, chair of the department of radiation oncology, has been named Loyola University...
Patrick Stiff, M.D., awarded Loyola’s Stritch Medal
Credit: Loyola Medicine MAYWOOD, IL - Patrick J. Stiff, MD, a world renowned cancer physician, researcher and teacher, has received the Stritch Medal, the highest...
Jean-Pol Dodelet is elected a Fellow of the AAAS
Honorary Professor Jean-Pol Dodelet, of Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He...
Power savings: ONR research helps Navy curb kilowatts
Credit: Photo: Bryce Vickmark ARLINGTON, Va.--With support from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed a...
Our closest worm kin regrow body parts, raising hopes of regeneration in humans
Credit: Shawn Luttrell/University of Washington What if humans could regrow an amputated arm or leg, or completely restore nervous system function after a spinal cord...
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