Plan A is to get patients to stick to their blood pressure pills
There is value in starting off patients with high blood pressure on an all-in-one pill. In the long run, it may help them stick to...
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New research helps to meet the challenges of nanotechnology
Credit: Scienta Omicron Research by scientists at Swansea University is helping to meet the challenge of incorporating nanoscale structures into future semiconductor devices that will...
Herbaria prove valuable in demonstrating long-term changes in plant populations
Credit: Claude Lavoie A new study published today in Botany demonstrates how herbaria can be valuable resources for studying the impact over time of large...
Harvests in the US to suffer from climate change
Some of the most important crops risk substantial damage from rising temperatures. To better assess how climate change caused by human greenhouse gas emissions will...
Graphene’s sleeping superconductivity awakens
Researchers have found a way to trigger the innate, but previously hidden, ability of graphene to act as a superconductor - meaning that it can...
Chip-sized, high-speed terahertz modulator raises possibility of faster data transmission
Credit: Nano Lab, Tufts University School of Engineering MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (January 19, 2017) - Tufts University engineers have invented a chip-sized, high-speed modulator that operates...
Precision medicine advances pediatric brain tumor diagnosis and treatment
Credit: Dana-Farber/Boston Children's BOSTON (January 19, 2017) -- Precision medicine - in which diagnosis and treatments are keyed to the genetic susceptibilities of individual cancers...
Save the date; 3 months to go until The International Liver CongressTM 2017
With just over three months to go until The International Liver Congress™ (ILC) 2017, we invite you to attend the 52nd Annual Congress of The...
Researchers discover greenhouse bypass for nitrogen
Credit: © D. Malmquist/VIMS. Those concerned with water quality are familiar with nitrogen as a major pollutant whose excess runoff into coastal waters can lead...
Mapping the mind of worms
Dr. Kevin Collins carefully places a petri dish with what looks like a blotch of yellowish slime under a microscope. Magnified, the slime comes alive...
Special issue highlights research at UM Schools of Medicine and Dentistry
Baltimore, Md., January 18, 2017 - New research by scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) and the University of Maryland...
Actress Kathy Bates to be honored at Research!America’s Advocacy Awards Dinner
> ARLINGTON, Va.--January 18, 2017--Kathy Bates, award-winning actress and Lymphatic Education & Research Network (LE&RN) spokesperson, will receive Research!America's Isadore Rosenfeld Award fo..
Intense industrial fishing
China, the world's largest seafood producer, has done something extraordinary. For the past 20 years, despite minimal management and some of the most intense industrial...
One year of sex-inclusive research celebrated at Jan. 25 symposium
CHICAGO --- Northwestern Medicine will host a symposium Jan. 25 to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the implementation of the National Institutes of Health's landmark...
Blood-repellent materials: A new approach to medical implants
Credit: Kota lab/Colorado State University FORT COLLINS, COLORADO - Medical implants like stents, catheters and tubing introduce risk for blood clotting and infection - a...
