A comparison between less-expensive, over-the-counter hearing assistance devices and a conventional hearing aid found that some of these devices were associated with improvements in hearing...
Credit: Fotis Sampaziotis Cambridge scientists have developed a new method for growing and transplanting artificial bile ducts that could in future be used to help...
Credit: From Zhang et al NSMB (2017). Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are not the same. They affect different regions of the brain and have...
Credit: Hong Kong Baptist University The School of Chinese Medicine (SCM) of Hong Kong Baptist University recently completed a clinical trial on the use of...
Researchers have gained new insights into the mechanisms with which certain proteins help the immune defence mechanism in the human body. Pathogens such as viruses...
Credit: British American Tobacco A new genetic road map of tobacco has been used to successfully identify and clone two mutated genes associated with how...
Research from King's College in London, UK, and Lund University in Sweden could explain why diabetes drugs which have worked in animal experiments are not...
Patients with Alzheimer's disease have a higher risk of developing glioblastoma and a lower risk of lung cancer. A paper published in Scientific Reports by...
Researchers at the University of Helsinki, Finland, in cooperation with Professor John P. Atkinson's research group at the University of Washington and Professor Mark Daly's...
Geneva, 3 July 2017: A higher number of eggs retrieved in an IVF treatment cycle is independently associated with more chromosomally normal embryos available for...
Credit: UNIST In-situ assembly of amphiphilic peptides with accompanying cellular functions inside a living cell (i.e., intracellular assembly) and their interaction with cellular components have...
Geneva, 3 July 2017: For the first time, a large population study has quantified the chance of pregnancy after treatment for cancer diagnosed in girls...
Credit: Raquel Carvalho Most plant species, including crops, cannot tolerate the toxic effects of soil pollutants, which dramatically impair their growth and development. In a...
Credit: Image by Janet Sinn-Hanlon CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new portable device can quickly find markers of deadly, unpredictable sepsis infection from a single drop...
Credit: David A. Broadway/cqc2t.org Researchers at the University of Melbourne have demonstrated a way to detect nuclear spins in molecules non-invasively, providing a new tool...
