Dartmouth study: How age-related genetic anomalies contribute to the maternal age effect
Credit: Courtesy of Sharon Bickel, Dartmouth College. For women in their 30s and beyond, the probability of a pregnancy that results in a miscarriage or...
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What role can schools play in preventing and responding to teen dating…
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 12, 2017-A nationwide study of school principals has shown that while the majority had assisted...
Chances to treat childhood dementia
Credit: (Picture: Janos Groh) Childhood dementia is an inherited disorder that affects the metabolism of the brain. Initial symptoms include degeneration of sight followed by...
New study finds that lymph node removal isn’t necessary for all melanoma patients
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Many patients with melanoma need a sentinel-lymph-node biopsy to determine if cancer cells have spread there, but a positive finding doesn't...
Loss of cells in brain’s memory center linked to schizophrenia
IMAGE: This is an image of the mouse hippocampus, with CA2 inhibitory neurons stained in light blue. In the researchers' mouse model of schizophrenia, this...
COPD, asthma now can be studied outside the body
A research team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University leveraged its organ-on-a-chip technology to develop a model of the human...
Is the finger-stick blood test necessary for type 2 diabetes…
Credit: Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga, UNC Health Care Chapel Hill, NC – In a landmark study, UNC School of Medicine researchers have shown that blood glucose testing...
IU study finds slight shift in attitudes toward bisexuals, from negative to neutral
Credit: Indiana University Bloomington While positive attitudes toward gay men and lesbians have increased over recent decades, a new study led by researchers at IU's...
Thousands on one chip: New method to study proteins
Since the completion of the human genome an important goal has been to elucidate the function of the now known proteins: a new molecular method...
Cystic fibrosis bacterial burden begins during first years of life
Credit: Wolfgang Lab, UNC School of Medicine CHAPEL HILL, NC – Cystic fibrosis (CF) shortens life by making the lungs prone to repeated bacterial infections...
Discovery of new Hepatitis C Virus mechanism
Researchers at Osaka University, Japan uncovered the mechanisms that suppress the propagation of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) with the potential of improving pathological liver...
Investigators may unlock mystery of how staph cells dodge the…
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) LOS ANGELES (Sept. 21, 2017) — For years, medical investigators have tried and failed to develop...
Mutations in key cancer protein suggest new route to treatments
For years, scientists have struggled to find a way to block a protein known to play an important role in many cancers. The protein, STAT3,...
Opioid crisis impacts ICUs with more admissions, deaths
Credit: ATS Aug. 8, 2017 — The opioid crisis in the United States is resulting in increased admissions to hospital intensive care units and in...
Organism responsible for paralytic shellfish poisoning may affect…
The toxic dinoflagellate, Alexandrium fundyense, is a photosynthetic plankton–a microscopic organism floating in the ocean, unable to swim against a current. New research by scientists...