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November 12, 2016

WASHINGTON -- Allopurinol, a widely used treatment for lowering serum urate levels, does not appear to increase risk of kidney ...

Scientists develop tissue-engineered model of human lung and trachea

Scientists at Children's Hospital Los Angeles have developed a tissue-engineered model of lung and trachea which contains the diverse cell ...

CRF to launch new journal focusing on structural heart disease

NEW YORK - November 11, 2016 - The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) announced that it will launch a new international ...

New discovery paves way for pancreatic cancer treatment

Credit: University of Notre Dame/Matt Cashore Pancreatic cancer, the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths, is projected to be the ...

Using pectin to advance neuron-like electronic systems

WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 11, 2016 -- Most of us know pectin as a key ingredient for making delicious jellies and ...

Molecular structure in Zika virus leads to potentially disease-causing RNAs

AURORA, Colo. (Nov. 10, 2016) - - Researchers, led by scientists at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, have ...

Rotting away: Getting at the evolutionary roots of wood decay

Credit: Professor Laszlo Nagy, Synthetic and Systems Biology Unit, Institute of Biochemistry, BRC-HAS, Szeged 6726, Hungary Decay is a complex ...

Is vitamin D level in blood at breast cancer diagnosis associated with survival?

A new report published online by JAMA Oncology examined whether levels of a blood biomarker of Vitamin D - 25-hydroxyvitamin ...

First random laser made of paper-based ceramics

Credit: Photo: Institute for Complex Systems /Rome Working with physicists from the University of Rome, a team led by Professor ...

RIT professor images David Livingstone diaries, gives talks in UK

Credit: Livingstone Spectral Imaging project Multispectral imaging technology continues to recover new insights from the field diaries of 19th-century explorer ...

Johns Hopkins researcher advance treatment of tuberculosis by targeting new enzyme

Researchers at Johns Hopkins report they have laid the foundation to develop novel antibiotics that work against incurable, antibiotic-resistant bacteria ...

Study: UChicago’s CommunityRx intervention helps patients find community resources

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