Artificial pancreas improves blood sugar control in young kids
ORLANDO--An artificial pancreas, which delivers insulin in an automated way to individuals with type 1 diabetes, appears to be safe and effective for use in...
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Stretching the boundaries of neural implants
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Implantable fibers have been an enormous boon to brain research, allowing scientists to stimulate specific targets in the brain and monitor electrical...
New report links early life antibiotic use to inflammatory gut diseases in adulthood
A new research report in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology involving mice shows that antibiotic use very early in life that alters the normal development/growth...
Ethics complicate clinical interpretation & reporting of human genome sequence results
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 3, 2017-Medical use of a patient's genomic sequence information can improve diagnostic capabilities and enable...
Progesterone and bisexuality: Is there a link?
Bisexuality is quite common among men and women whose mothers received additional doses of the sex hormone progesterone while pregnant. This is one of the...
Batteries — quick coatings
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using the precision of an electron beam to instantly adhere cathode coatings for...
Microscopy — Biomass close-up
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists created an approach to get a better look at plant cell wall characteristics at high...
Estetrol (E4) shows promise as a safe, effective drug for use in advanced prostate cancer
ORLANDO--The natural fetal estrogen estetrol, also called E4, is being tested as a new drug that may help treat advanced prostate cancer, according to an...
Penn researchers use new imaging to show key enzyme in ovarian cancer
PHILADELPHIA - A new imaging test may provide the ability to identify ovarian cancer patients who are candidates for an emerging treatment that targets a...
Diagnosing cancer
Credit: RUB, Marquard Scientists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have established a process for identifying biomarkers for the diagnosis of different types of cancer. With the aid...
Advanced FDG-PET image analysis identifies cell mutations in cancer patients
Credit: Stephen S.F. Yip, PhD, and Hugo Aerts, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston Massachusetts; John Kim, MD,...
Negative regulator stops extreme immune response to parasite, averting multi-organ damage
Credit: Osaka University Osaka - Cytokines are proteins secreted by several types of immune cells in response to infection, inflammation, or injury. Interleukin-17 (IL-17) is...
Solitary perturbations in the steep boundary of magnetized toroidal plasma
Throughout the history of mankind, an anthropomorphic figure transcends time and distance to appear repeatedly and consistently wherever man resides. Ra, Tonatiuh, Sol Invictus, Taiyang...
Robot epigenetics: Adding complexity to embodied robot evolution
Evolutionary robotics is a new exciting area of research which draws on Darwinian evolutionary principles to automatically develop autonomous robots. In a new research article...
Researchers document how melanoma tumors form
Loading video... Credit: David Soll laboratory, University of Iowa There's a reason why melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, is so aggressive. You...
