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August 16, 2018

On Avoiding Deep Dementia Norman L. Cantor To avoid prolonged dementia, the author has written an advanced directive to prohibit ...

This matrix delivers healing stem cells to injured elderly muscles

Credit: Georgia Tech / Christopher Moore A car accident leaves an aging patient with severe muscle injuries that won't heal. ...

Rosenberg, NCI-supported researchers to receive 2018 Albany Prize

Credit: Rhoda Baer Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., of the Center for Cancer Research (CCR) at the National Cancer Institute ...

NSF awards grant to Portland State for state-of-the-art instrument

Portland State University investigators from the Departments of Chemistry and Biology have received a $350,000 grant from the National Science ...

Research brief: UMN researchers use green gold to rapidly detect and identify harmful bacteria

Researchers from the University of Minnesota (UMN) have developed a method to screen and identify harmful or antibiotic-resistant bacteria within ...

MD Anderson and Accelerator Life Science Partners launch Magnolia Neurosciences

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Accelerator Life Science Partners, a leading life science investment and management ...

Cetuximab+RT found to be inferior to standard treatment in HPV+ oropharyngeal cancer

Credit: National Cancer Institute An interim analysis of data from a randomized clinical trial of patients with human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive ...

Clinical trial suggests new direction for heavy-smoking head and neck cancer patients

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Patients with a greater than 10 pack/year history of smoking tend to develop an ...

Restoring blood flow may be best option to save your life and limb

DALLAS, Aug. 15, 2018 -- Treatments that restore blood flow to the lower limbs of people with a serious circulation ...

BioOne Complete welcomes back popular titles for 2019

WASHINGTON, DC - August 15, 2018 : BioOne (about.BioOne.org) proudly announces the return of three popular journals and the addition ...

Light-emitting nanoparticles could provide a safer way to image living cells

Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) A research team has demonstrated how light-emitting nanoparticles, developed at the U.S. Department ...

New HIV therapy reduces virus, boosts immunity in drug-resistant patients

New Haven, Conn.-- In a study, a new HIV drug reduced viral replication and increased immune cells in individuals with ...

Four URI scientists among 100 researchers on NASA-led expedition to North Pacific

KINGSTON, R.I., August, 9, 2018 -- Four scientists from the University of Rhode Island are among 100 researchers from 30 ...

Palliative care may reduce suicide risk in veterans with lung cancer

Credit: OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff Results from a large-scale patient population study, recently published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society, ...

Precision public health method identifies clusters of respiratory disease in Uganda

A study led by researchers at Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health ...

Novel blood test predicts kidney cancer risk and survival five years prior to diagnosis

A critical biomarker of kidney disease may help predict clear cell kidney cancer - the most common form of kidney ...

Wearable ‘microbrewery’ saves human body from radiation damage

Credit: Purdue University/Erin Easterling WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The same way that yeast yields beer and bread can help hospital ...

Nuclear gatekeeper could block undruggable prostate cancer targets

(PHILADELPHIA) - Certain molecular drivers of cancer growth are "undruggable" - it's been nearly impossible to develop chemicals that would ...

Research brief: New 3D-printed device could help treat spinal cord injuries

Engineers and medical researchers at the University of Minnesota have teamed up to create a groundbreaking 3D-printed device that could ...

Melanoma linked with CLL, close monitoring recommended