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May 18, 2018

Credit: Innodem CENTECH, a Montreal-based technology incubator, announced earlier that it has selected a company founded by Dr. Etienne de ...

Simpler scan still effective in deciding stroke treatment

May 18, 2018

HOUSTON - (May 18, 2018) - A study led by a neurologist from McGovern Medical School at The University of ...

Supercomputing the emergence of material behavior

Credit: Credit: Robert Alberstein et al. What makes kevlar stop a bullet, at the atomic level? The properties of materials ...

New blood test rapidly detects signs of pancreatic cancer

Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Pancreatic cancer is expected to become the second deadliest cancer in ...

The Lancet Oncology: Patients’ sex may impact efficacy of immunotherapy in cancer treatment

Different immune responses between men and women, and potential interaction with hormones might impact how men and women benefit from ...

Surviving sepsis campaign update focuses on critical first hour

May 16, 2018 - For patients with sepsis, a serious infection causing widespread inflammation, immediate treatment is essential to improve ...

One third of people aged 40-59 have evidence of degenerative disc disease

BOSTON -- Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research, and Boston Medical Center have reported that one-third of people ...

Injections for knee osteoarthritis — ‘subtle but significant’ impact of revisions in clinical practice guidelines

May 17, 2018 - Recent updates in evidence-based recommendations have led to changes in the use of steroid and hyaluronic ...

Ovarian cancer drug shows promise in pancreatic cancer patients with BRCA mutation

PHILADELPHIA - A targeted therapy that has shown its power in fighting ovarian cancer in women including those with BRCA1 ...

SNMMI collaborates with industry to advance nuclear medicine and molecular imaging

RESTON, Va - The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) Value Initiative Industry Alliance brings members of the ...

Princeton researchers crowdsource brain mapping with gamers, discover 6 new neuron types

Credit: Image by Alex Norton, Eyewire With the help of a quarter-million video game players, Princeton researchers have created and ...

Mechanical force controls the speed of protein synthesis

Credit: Benjamin Fritch As cells create proteins, the proteins modulate synthesis speed by exerting a mechanical force on the molecular ...

NIH, Northwestern scientists develop potential new approach to stop cancer metastasis

Researchers have identified a compound that blocks the spread of pancreatic and other cancers in various animal models. When cancer ...

A simple software error corrected: bittersweet chloroplast genome becomes the model

Credit: Péter Poczai The first complete plastome nucleotide sequence was published in 1986 for tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) of the ...

THE IADR/AADR publish JDR special issue on head and neck cancer

Alexandria, VA, USA - The International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR) have published a special issue in the ...

Case Western Reserve, Lucid Diagnostics sign agreement on Barrett’s Esophagus detector

CLEVELAND--Case Western Reserve University and Lucid Diagnostics, a subsidiary of publicly traded New York-based medical device company, PAVmed Inc. (Nasdaq: ...

Plug-and-play diagnostic devices

Credit: Melanie Gonick/MIT CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Researchers at MIT's Little Devices Lab have developed a set of modular blocks that ...

OHSU, UCF launch first US clinical trial of 3D-printed prosthetics for children

The first U.S. clinical trial of bionic arms for children produced on 3D printers is launching today thanks to researchers ...

VTC Research Institute leads effort to develop test for mild traumatic brain injury

Credit: Virginia Tech Scientists at two of Virginia's largest universities, working with clinicians from the two major health systems and ...

The first wireless flying robotic insect takes off