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Credit: Clemens Scherzer, Brigham and Women's Hospital Dopamine neurons are located in the midbrain, but their tendril-like axons can branch ...

After EMR implementation, surgeons spend less time interacting with patients

September 19, 2018 - Implementing an electronic medical records (EMR) system at an orthopaedic clinic may have unanticipated effects on ...

UCLA researchers develop mechanism for characterizing function of rare tumor cells

Scientists have long known that circulating tumor cells, rare cancer cells that are released into the bloodstream, have the potential ...

Russian scientists applied aerospace technologies to combat fresh water deficit

Credit: Samara University Young specialists of JSC "Metallist-Samara" and scientists of Samara University are completing the testing cycle of a ...

NUS researchers invent new test kit for quick, accurate and low-cost screening of diseases

Credit: NUS BIGHEART A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a portable, easy-to-use ...

NSF awards contract to group led by WHOI to continue OOI

Credit: Photo by James Kuo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that it has awarded a ...

Understanding epilepsy in pediatric tumors

Credit: KAIST Pediatric brain tumors are characterized by frequent complications due to intractable epilepsy compared to adult brain tumors. However, ...

ESMO 2018 awardees announced

Lugano, Switzerland, 19 September 2018 - The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the leading organisation for medical oncology, has ...

CTLA4 targeted therapy plus PD-1 targeted therapy could benefit women with ovarian cancer

An analysis of the NRG Oncology clinical trial NRG-GY003 suggests that adding ipilimumab, a monoclonal antibody that targets the protein ...

Newborn opioid withdrawal requires a ‘cascade of care,’ study suggests

September 19, 2018 - Effective management of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) - withdrawal symptoms occurring in infants exposed to opioids ...

Fiber optic sensor measures tiny magnetic fields

WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a light-based technique for measuring very weak magnetic fields, such as those produced when neurons ...

What your cell phone camera tells you about your brain

Credit: Rensselaer Driving down a dark country road at night, you see a shape ahead on the roadside. Is it ...

Flu season forecasts could be more accurate with access to health care companies’ data

Credit: University of Texas at Austin In an era when for-profit companies collect a wealth of data about us, new ...

Anti-cancer drugs may hold key to overcoming antimalarial drug resistance

Credit: Dr Eric Hanssen Scientists have found a way to boost the efficacy of the world's most powerful antimalarial drug ...

New method improves temperature imaging accuracy in fat-containing tissues

Credit: SIAT Magnetic resonance thermometry (MRT) is the only imaging technique that noninvasively provides temperature distribution in vivo. The water ...

The walking dead: Fossils on the move can distort patterns of mass extinctions

Credit: Figure by Nawrot et al. in Proceedings of the Royal Society B GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Using the fossil record ...

An innovative procedure improves the control of liquid intake during haemodyalisis

The research was conducted over a period of six months with a group of 36 patients in the Haemodyalisis Unit ...

Financial incentives for cholesterol control may be cost-effective

Boston, MA - A program that offered financial incentives to both patients and their physicians to control low-density lipoproteins (LDL) ...

Growing computers in petri dishes

Credit: Xiaochen Guo/Lehigh University Will the computers of tomorrow be manufactured, or will they be cultivated? This question lies at ...

Case Western Reserve’s Dr. Lan Zhou receives $2M to study colorectal cancer development