No safe level of smoking
People who consistently smoked an average of less than one cigarette per day over their lifetime had a 64 percent higher risk of earlier death...
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Moffitt Cancer Center study shows promising clinical activity
TAMPA, Fla. (Dec. 5, 2016) - Immune cellular therapy is a promising new area of cancer treatment. Anti-cancer therapeutics, such as chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)...
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons announces official open access journal
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), a global leader in orthopaedic surgical education, is announcing the forthcoming launch of JAAOS: Global Research & Reviews....
Babies’ first words can be predicted based on visual attention, IU study finds
Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University psychologists have shown that a baby's most likely first words are based upon their visual experience, laying...
Global public health advocates open new fronts in war on tobacco
Credit: IASLC Efforts to control tobacco as a public health threat have escalated as clinicians and public health advocates have coalesced to beat back threats...
The Goldilocks effect in aging research
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(December 5, 2016) Ever since researchers connected the shortening of telomeres--the protective structures on the ends of chromosomes--to aging and disease,...
Legendary Chesapeake scientist Walter Boynton awarded Mathias Medal
Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science/Cheryl Nemazie ANNAPOLIS, MD (December 5, 2016)--Walter Boynton, a fixture in the world of Chesapeake Bay science for...
Transportation center earns $15 million federal research grant, national designation
Credit: TREC/Portland State University Portland State University has secured a five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation for transportation research, education and outreach. Portla..
Efficiency of insect biodiversity monitoring via Malaise trap samples and DNA barcoding
Credit: Bernhard Huber The massive decline of over 75% insect biomass reported from Germany between 1989 and 2013 by expert citizen scientists proves the urgent...
Delivering a power punch
Credit: Reproduced with permission from ref 1© John Wiley and Sons. Energy storage units that can be integrated into wearable and flexible electronic systems are...
Frank Wilczek hosts first workshop on axions as professor at Stockholm University
Credit: Photo: Niklas Björling/Stockholm University Stockholm University and NORDITA host this week an international workshop on axions and dark matter. Axions are hypothetical particles proposed...
New study of water-saving plants advances efforts to develop drought-resistant crops
Credit: Jason Richards/Oak Ridge National Laboratory OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Dec. 5, 2016 - As part of an effort to develop drought-resistant food and bioenergy crops,...
Tufts researchers uncover possible source of genetic error causing multiple diseases
Credit: Melody Ko/Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (December 5, 2016)--Tufts University researchers have discovered a possible explanation for the occurrence of a genetic error that causes..
RNA interference is activated in human response to influenza, other important viruses
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University of California, Riverside, have shown for the first time that RNA interference (RNAi) - an antiviral...
Genetic factors control regenerative properties of blood-forming stem cells
Credit: UCLA/Nature Medicine FINDINGS Researchers from the UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology Oncology and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine...
