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NEW YORK, July 11, 2018 -- Ludwig Cancer Research and the Cancer Research Institute (CRI) announce the initiation of a ...

New gears in your sleep clock

Credit: Kyoto University / Jean-Michel Fustin Kyoto, Japan -- A long-studied factor controlling human sleep cycles actually has two forms, ...

Blood sample breakthrough good news for pregnant women

Credit: University of South Australia A wide range of fetal genetic abnormalities could soon be detected in early pregnancy thanks ...

Database analysis more reliable than animal testing for toxic chemicals

Advanced algorithms working from large chemical databases can predict a new chemical's toxicity better than standard animal tests, suggests a ...

Cleaning out pollen shells (video)

Credit: American Chemical Society As allergy season intensifies, many people are cursing pollen - the powdery substance released by plants ...

ACA credited with earlier diagnosis of gynecologic cancers in young women

The gains in insurance coverage with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) have already translated into improved health ...

Why randomized trials for proton therapy are difficult to complete (and what we can do about it)

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Randomized clinical trials are the gold standard of cancer research and can shed light on ...

RIT to continue to lead Pollution Prevention Institute after DEC’s contract renewal

A Rochester Institute of Technology-led consortium has won a $19.5 million, five-year award from the New York State Department of ...

Baker’s yeast helped MSU-based biologists to understand drug resistance in fungi

Credit: Courtesy of Dmitry Knorre. MSU-based biologists advanced in understanding of fungal drug resistance mechanisms. To study them the scientists ...

Unique brain ‘fingerprint’ can predict drug effectiveness

Credit: Yasser Iturria Medina Personalized medicine - delivering therapies specially tailored to a patient's unique physiology - has been a ...

Fishy chemicals in farmed salmon

Credit: Swanson School of Engineering/Carla Ng PITTSBURGH (July 10, 2018) ... Persistent organic pollutants--or POPs--skulk around the environment threatening human ...

Removing barriers to advance care planning for cancer patients and their family caregivers

Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS - Thinking about death and discussing emotionally challenging topics such as end-of-life preparations are difficult for ...

Evolution does repeat itself after all

Credit: Copyright: Andreas Kautt For every two species of mammal there is one species of cichlid fish, which goes to ...

Scribes may be more financially viable under capitated payment

Team documentation (i.e., the use of scribes) has the potential to improve primary care clinician satisfaction and efficiency, yet little ...

July/August 2018 Annals of Family Medicine media tip sheet

Alcohol Consumption is Associated With Nocturnal Leg Cramps New research finds that, among patients over 60 years old, there is ...

Artificial intelligence helps Stanford researchers predict drug combinations’ side effects

Credit: L.A. Cicero Last month alone, 23 percent of Americans took two or more prescription drugs, according to one CDC ...

UA researchers preparing for quick radiation diagnostic test in case of a nuclear disaster

Credit: Sun Czar Belous, UA College of Medicine - Phoenix Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - ...

In end-of-life cancer care, geography may be destiny

July 9, 2018

When it comes to how much end-of-life care a patient with cancer receives, geography may, indeed, be destiny, according to ...

Discovery of a new on/off switch affecting cell-to-cell communications

July 9, 2018

Cellular functions rely on several communications networks that allow cells to rapidly respond to signals affecting the organism. A new ...

Biosensor chip detects single nucleotide polymorphism wirelessly, with higher sensitivity