The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group announces Allen Discovery Center at UW Medicine
Credit: Jay Shendure The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group announced today the creation of an Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage Tracing at UW Medicine,...
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Alcohol consumption putting vast majority of Europeans at risk of digestive cancers
Credit: UEG (Vienna, 4 July, 2017) Citizens across the EU are consuming an average of 2 alcoholic drinks per day, placing drinkers at a 21%...
Advance directive and medical power of attorney are often missing
COLOGNE. For most patients in intensive care, the patient records contain neither an advance directive nor a medical power of attorney. This is the finding...
Combining antibiotics proves more effective against common infection
The common and highly resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterium is a fatal threat to weakened and ill patients. A new study from Lund University in Sweden...
Who’ll win at Wimbledon? Just listen to the pitch of the grunts
Never mind counting aces and killer shots. If you want to predict the outcome of a tennis match, pay attention to the players' grunts. As...
Genome sequence of a diabetes-prone rodent
The sand rat Psammomys obesus is a gerbil species native to deserts of North Africa and the Middle East, and is constrained in its ecology...
Local views key to unlocking ways to fairer and more successful nature conservation
New research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) shows how a policy aimed at ensuring the world's protected areas are "equitably managed" has...
DYNAMO joins the war on diabetic kidney disease
Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, 4 July 2017 - Including investigators from all three medical schools in Singapore, as well as local public health institutions,...
New breakthrough opens doors to treat melanin-linked skin conditions
Credit: @Montse Lopez New breakthrough opens doors to treat melanin-linked skin conditions Spots resulting from too much sun exposure and other effects of dysfunctional melanin...
Australian study uses new technique to challenge brain development hypothesis
Credit: Courtesy Dr. Vera Weisbecker A new study involving The University of Queensland, which might be useful for biomedical research, re-writes parts of the rulebook...
AAS publishes a special issue on Chinese Carbon Budget Program
Credit: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences Global warming has been one of the biggest issues the whole world has been facing for the past decades. It...
Sleep scientists’ latest book debunks 40 myths on getting a good night’s sleep
A new book by leading sleep scientists debunks 40 popular and persistent myths on how to get a good night's sleep - from the efficacy...
New chemical synthesis method can produce an exciting range of novel compounds
Credit: NITech Chemists at Nagoya Institute of Technology have developed an innovative chemical reaction system, which could have applications for developing starter molecules for additional...
Not so pretty after all: New pestivirus that attacks the nervous system of Austrian pigs
Credit: Photo/Video: Institute of Virology/Vetmeduni Vienna Some newly born piglets shiver even when they are kept warm. So-called "shaking piglets" have symptoms that resemble those...
The role of electrochemotherapy in radiosensitization of tumor cells
Credit: Ali Yadollahpour et al., Bentham Science Publishers Radiotherapy is an important method in treatment of tumors, but it can be held responsible for biological...
