Search Result for &#039;advanced&#039;

New research from the University of Chicago Medicine shows a program that uses electronic medical records to connect Chicagoans with ...

How ACOs are trying to improve patients’ health by addressing nonmedical needs

Credit: The Dartmouth Institute Lebanon, NH (Nov. 10, 2016) -- Health care leaders and policy makers agree that in order ...

Penn-led team receives DARPA support to develop ‘next generation’ social science

A scientific team led by the University of Pennsylvania has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...

TGen’s Dr. Von Hoff is named a ‘Giant of Cancer Care’

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Nov. 10, 2016 -- Dr. Daniel Von Hoff, Physician-In-Chief and Distinguished Professor at the Translational Genomics ...

Study links shorter sleep and sugar-sweetened drink consumption

People who sleep five or fewer hours a night are likely to also drink significantly more sugary caffeinated drinks, such ...

‘Bottlebrush’ polymers make dielectric elastomers increasingly viable for use in devices

Credit: Richard Spontak A multi-institutional research team has developed a new electroactive polymer material that can change shape and size ...

Elucidating sex differences in Alzheimer’s disease risk

Boston, MA - Women have a two-fold higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease than men, yet strikingly little is known ...

Experimental drug delivers one-two punch to prostate cancer cells

Credit: Venu Raman An experimental drug that targets abnormally high levels of a protein linked to cancer growth appears to ...

New study: Male chimpanzees can be players and good fathers

Credit: Joel Bray, Arizona State University WASHINGTON (Nov. 8, 2016)--New research suggests that male chimpanzees are more invested in protecting ...

Changing views of evolutionary factors at work on earliest mammals

Credit: UMass Amherst/Andrew Conith AMHERST, Mass. - Using 3D-printed replicas of 200-million-year-old mammal teeth and polymers that mimic insect prey, ...

Researcher finds key to drug resistant bowel cancer

BLOCKING a molecule could bypass bowel cancer's defence against the drug cetuximab, according to new research* presented at the National ...

The process of DNA packaging in cell nucleus revealed

November 8, 2016

Credit: Igor Kireev Scientists from the Lomonosov Moscow State University in collaboration with their colleagues from the USA have conducted ...

New technology taps power of diatoms to dramatically improve sensor performance