NIH-funded team uses smartphone data in global study of physical activity
Credit: T Althoff et al, Stanford University Using a larger dataset than for any previous human movement study, National Institutes of Health-funded researchers at Stanford...
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Wyss Center joins $19M project to engineer brain-computer interface network
The Wyss Center in Geneva is set to work with Brown University on a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program to develop a...
Dr. John Buster inducted into ACOG Hall of Fame
Credit: Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island John E. Buster, MD, of Providence, a reproductive endocrinologist with Women & Infants Fertility Center and professor...
Survey reveals widespread bias in astronomy and planetary science
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- In an online survey about their workplace experiences, 88 percent of academics, students, postdoctoral researchers and...
Age and obesity conspire to damage the tiny blood vessels that feed the heart, causing heart failure
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (July 10, 2017) - Age and obesity appear to create a perfect storm that can reduce blood flow through the...
Farm work may improve veterans’ mental health
Credit: Care farming by Josef Kalinko/Seattle University Care farming -- using working farms and agricultural landscapes to promote mental and physical health -- helped improve...
Hidden herpes virus may play key role in MS, other brain disorders
The ubiquitous human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) may play a critical role in impeding the brain's ability to repair itself in diseases like multiple sclerosis. The...
Hospitals that spend more initially yield better outcomes
Hospitals that spend more on initial care following patient emergencies have better outcomes than hospitals that spend less at first and rely more on additional...
Food scientists find cranberries may aid the gut microbiome
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Many scientists are paying new attention to prebiotics, that is, molecules we eat but cannot digest, because some may...
NEJM case reports show promise of cancer immunotherapy to treat rare lymphoma
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Three case reports published in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrate the promise of cancer immunotherapy in gray...
Citizen science brings monarch butterfly parasitoids to light
Annapolis, Md.; July 5, 2017 -- Thanks to citizen volunteers, scientists now know more than ever about the flies that attack monarch butterfly caterpillars. Since...
A novel practical test for the function of HDL, the carrier of ‘good’ cholesterol
Credit: Kobe University High-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) is known as "good" cholesterol, because HDL particles removes excess cholesterol from arterial walls and transport them back...
Journal of Orthoptera Research joins scholarly publisher Pensoft’s open access portfolio
Credit: Journal of Orthoptera Research and Pensoft The Orthopterists' Society's Journal of Orthoptera Research (JOR) joins the growing portfolio of open access titles published on...
Nagoya forensic scientists recover human DNA from mosquitos
Credit: Toshimich Yamamoto Nagoya, Japan - Most people would agree that painful mosquito bites are an especially annoying part of summer. Except perhaps forensic scientists,...
Reduced mastication results in the impairment of memory and learning function
Credit: Department of Cell Signaling,Department of Orthodontic Science?TMDU) Recently, frequency of mastication has dramatically decreased along with changes in dietary habits. Masticatory stimulat..
