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Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES (Embargoed Until Oct. 18, 2018 @ 10:05AM ET) -- A surgical technique called EDAS (encephaloduroarteriosynangiosis) significantly ...

Dr. Erkut Kucukboyaci of Kessler Foundation named Switzer Research Fellow

Credit: Kessler Foundation Erkut Kucukboyaci, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in Traumatic Brain Injury Research at Kessler Foundation, has been awarded a ...

UT Southwestern researcher wins Breakthrough Prize for innate immunity discovery

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 17, 2018 - UT Southwestern biochemist Dr. Zhijian "James" Chen today was named winner ...

$11 million NIH grant creates new center for musculoskeletal research at Clemson

CLEMSON, South Carolina - With an $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Center for Biomedical Research Excellence, ...

For preterm infants, skin-to-skin contact affects

October 18, 2018 - For premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), skin-to-skin contact with parents influences levels ...

With a microbe-produced toxin, bacteria prove old dogs can learn new tricks

Credit: Mougous Lab/UW Medicine A newly discovered toxin that some bacteria deploy to fend off competing bacteria stands out from ...

For preterm infants, skin-to-skin contact affects hormone levels — and may promote parental engagement

October 18, 2018 - For premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), skin-to-skin contact with parents influences levels ...

Dry conditions in East Africa half a million years ago possibly shaped human evolution, study finds

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Samples of ancient sediments from a lake basin in East Africa have revealed that arid conditions ...

Arctic greening thaws permafrost, boosts runoff

Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Oct. 17, 2018--A new collaborative study has investigated Arctic shrub-snow interactions to ...

Study uncovers new link between neonicotinoid pesticide exposure and bumblebee decline

Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Mass. - Adding to growing evidence that pesticide use may be contributing to the decline ...

Pitt engineer’s research on magnetically activated engineered cells attracts NIH funding

Credit: Swanson School of Engineering During graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Warren Ruder wondered if it ...

Evolution is everywhere

Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture: Evolutionary Social, Environmental and Policy Sciences (Cambridge University Press, October 2018) is a new ...

Study examines aspects of conscientious objection among nurses

One-on-one interviews with eight nurses in Ontario revealed that nurses making conscientious objections to ethically-relevant policies lack concrete supports and ...

UC researcher fighting breast cancer with light therapy

Credit: Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati When treatment is working for a patient who is fighting cancer, the light at the ...

Probiotics and antibiotics create a killer combination

November 3, 2018

Researchers showed that by delivering a combination of antibiotic drugs and probiotics, they could eradicate two strains of drug-resistant bacteria ...

Breastfeeding protects infants from antibiotic-resistant bacteria

A recent study completed at the University of Helsinki investigated the amount and quality of bacteria resistant to antibiotics in ...

Genomic analysis offers insight into 2018 Nigeria Lassa fever outbreak

Credit: NIAID WHAT: A surge in Lassa fever cases in Nigeria in 2018 does not appear to be linked to ...

Just how blind are bats? Color vision gene study examines key sensory tradeoffs