New tool helps pick puppies most suited to guide dog training
Credit: Guide Dogs UK Animal behaviour experts at the University of Nottingham have developed a new tool which can be used to predict a young...
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Free app helps providers treat patients grieving pregnancy loss, newborn death
Credit: University of Louisville LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A group of University of Louisville researchers and engineers has developed a free mobile app designed to help...
Hackensack Meridian Health becomes charter member of NJII Ideation Program for Healthcare
New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), a New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) corporation, announces that Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey's most comprehensive and integrated network...
Drug design strategy boosts the odds against resistance development
Credit: Courtesy of Eugene Shakhnovich A new rational drug design technique that uses a powerful computer algorithm to identify molecules that target different receptor sites...
12th Annual Symposium of the Penn Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology
PHILADELPHIA - Several critical periods over a human life span - including before birth -- determine when individuals are the most susceptible to environmental toxicants....
Statins may not be used for protection against Parkinson’s disease
Use of statins may speed up the onset of Parkinson's disease symptoms in people who are susceptible to the disease, according to Penn State College...
The soft touch
What do ketchup, silly putty, leaves, glue, cloth and our bodies have in common? They all fall under the category of soft matter, a class...
USDA announces more than $9 million to address critical water resources issues
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 14, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced 14 grants totaling more...
A surprising new link between inflammation and mental illness
Credit: Boston Children's Hospital Up to 75 percent of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus -- an incurable autoimmune disease commonly known as lupus -- experience...
Protein network signals found to drive myeloid leukemias
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers have uncovered how mutations in a protein network drive several high-risk leukemias, offering new prospects for novel therapies. An...
Dressmakers found to have needle-sharp 3-D vision
Haute couture can be credited for enhancing more than catwalks and red carpets. New research from the University of California, Berkeley suggests that the 3D...
Why we get diarrhea
Credit: Image courtesy of the Turner laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Researchers want to know: does diarrhea serve a purpose? Does it actually help...
State medical licensing boards’ practices may hurt physician mental health
Credit: Michigan Medicine Sharing a history of mental health issues with an employer is difficult for anyone. It's that much harder if reporting an old...
Boston Medical Center, Head Start partner to prevent maternal depression
BOSTON - Boston Medical Center (BMC), in partnership with Action for Boston Community Development's (ABCD) Head Start program, has helped mothers experience a 40 percent...
Anti-malaria drugs: Potential new target identified
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH University Park, PA -- A newly described protein could be an effective target for combatting drug-resistant...
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