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Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology In nanotechnology control is key. Control over the arrangements and distances between nanoparticles can allow tailored interaction strengths so that...

Washington, DC - December 2, 2016 - In several clinical trials, the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus paracasei DG has been shown to promote health, but until...

Credit: Colette Wabnitz Coastal Indigenous people eat on average 15 times more seafood per person than non-Indigenous people in the same country, according to new...

The "reproducibility crisis" in biomedical research has led to questions about the scientific rigor in animal research, and thus the ethical justification of animal experiments....

Washington, D.C., December 2, 2016 -- What are the characteristics of the way you say, "hello," (or anything else for that matter) that makes you...

Credit: UT Dallas Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas will take part in a project that aims to design and construct a patient-focused...

Credit: Copyright: Benjamin Judkewitz, Charité. Having played a central role in the advent of modern life sciences, optical microscopy is now virtually indispensable in research....

December 2, 2016 - Older adults with cataracts are more likely to have symptoms of depression, reports a study in the December issue of Optometry...

Investigators from Children's Hospital Los Angeles and 37 other Children's Oncology Group hospitals in the U.S. and Canada have determined that sodium thiosulfate prevents cisplatin-induced...

Credit: NASA/HU/VT/CU-LASP/AIM/Joy Ng, producer Data from NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, or AIM, spacecraft shows the sky over Antarctica is glowing electric blue...

Credit: University of Michigan Health System Nearly one in 11 Americans will have a kidney stone in their lifetime, causing pain, sometimes missed work and,...

Credit: Neeta Pandit-Taskar, M.D., and Michael J. Morris, M.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New research demonstrates that a novel imaging agent can quickly and...

Controlling the way fluorinated polymer chains twist and turn may enable fast and flexible electrical circuits, according to collaborative research conducted at Penn State. The...

While it seems static from our vantage point on Earth 93 million miles away, the sun is constantly changing. Under the influence of complex magnetic...

Credit: Tim Betler/UPMC PITTSBURGH, Dec. 1, 2016 - In the first analysis of how to treat patients on anticoagulants who suffer a major bleeding event,...