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Credit: RMIT University Australian researchers have designed a rapid nano-filter that can clean dirty water over 100 times faster than ...

Can a common heart condition cause sudden death?

Credit: Zhen Ma, PhD SAN FRANCISCO, CA--September 18, 2018-- About one person out of 500 has a heart condition known ...

New hub to drive vaccine discovery, development and manufacturing revolution

Vax-Hub, a new Future Vaccine Manufacturing Research Hub, will bring together academia, industry and policy makers to affect radical change ...

Lighthouse Guild to present Alfred W. Bressler Vision Science Symposium and Pisart Seminar

Lighthouse Guild, the leading not-for-profit vision and healthcare organization, will present the 2018 Alfred W. Bressler Vision Science Symposium and ...

Sample size matters in multisensory integration studies

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine The accuracy and reproducibility of research studies are a major concern of the scientific community. ...

Festschrift dedicated to Mathilde Krim includes scientific research by Krim fellows

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 20, 2018--A special Festschrift dedicated to the memory of Dr. ...

Genomic dark matter activity connects Parkinson’s and psychiatric diseases

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