Designing diagnostic labs that are safe, specific and sustainable
Credit: (Photo by Randy Montoya) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- An outbreak is like a wildfire; the sooner it's caught, the easier it is to fight, said...
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New national Lyme Disease biobank to accelerate research by making samples available
Portola Valley, Calif., Jan. 24, 2017 - Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a national organization funding research to make Lyme disease easy to diagnose and simple...
Overall rate of death from cancer decreases in US
The overall rate of death from cancer declined about 20 percent between 1980 and 2014; however, there are distinct clusters of counties in the U.S....
New study finds where you live may determine likelihood of dying from cancer
SEATTLE - The rate at which Americans die from cancers varies dramatically by where they live, according to a new scientific analysis. Lung cancer kills...
Penn researchers help unravel mysteries of pancreatic cancer’s resistance to standard therapies
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Pancreatic cancer has long been one of the hardest to treat. Now, in a new study, researchers at the Perelman...
Small proteins help deliver receptors to the surface of our cells, ensuring their function and helping us avoid disease
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 24, 2017) - Receptors on the surface of our cells enable a wide variety of functions from our sense...
Consumer-use baby monitors have little proven benefit for healthy infants
Credit: Childen's Hospital of Philadelphia It sounds simple and harmless--an electronic sensor attached to a baby's sock that monitors vital signs and alerts parents on...
Swarm of underwater robots mimics ocean life
Credit: Scripps Oceanography/Jaffe Lab for Underwater Imaging Underwater robots developed by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego offer...
NAS honors five for major contributions in physical science and engineering
WASHINGTON -- The National Academy of Sciences will honor five individuals with awards in recognition of their extraordinary scientific achievements in physical science and engineering....
Bursts of methane may have warmed early Mars
Credit: NASA The presence of water on ancient Mars is a paradox. There's plenty of geographical evidence that rivers periodically flowed across the planet's surface....
New sensors can detect single protein molecules
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- For the first time, MIT engineers have designed sensors that can detect single protein molecules as they are secreted by cells or...
Large pre-ACA Medicaid expansion did not level health disparities in cancer surgery
Credit: Georgetown University WASHINGTON -- An analysis of the New York State's Medicaid expansion, which predated the 2010 Affordable Care Act, finds substantial decrease in...
News media registration open for ENDO 2017: The 99th Annual Meeting & EXPO in Orlando, Fla.
Washington, DC--Members of the media can now register to cover the latest advances in hormone health and science at ENDO 2017, the Endocrine Society's 99th...
Timing of chemo affects inflammation, mice study suggests
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The time of day that breast cancer chemotherapy drugs are given affects the amount of damaging inflammation in the body, a new...
Role of thrust and drag clarified for swimming microorganisms
Credit: Felderhof WASHINGTON, D.C., Tuesday, January 24, 2017 -- For years, B. Ubbo Felderhof, a professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Germany's RWTH...
