About 8% of West Virginia babies are exposed to alcohol shortly before birth
Credit: Aira Burkhart/West Virginia University illustration About 8 percent of West Virginia newborns are exposed to alcohol two to four ...
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E-cigarette users are exposed to potentially harmful levels of metal linked to DNA damage
Zinc excess in the body correlates with oxidative stressCredit: Talbot lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Researchers at the University ...
Hispanics/Latinos underrepresented in Alzheimer’s disease research
UH researcher to increase health literacy among largest US minorityCredit: University of Houston A University of Houston researcher is working ...
ATS Foundation/Pulmonary Hypertension Association 2019 Partner Grant awardees
Credit: ATS (Feb. 20, 2020) -- The ATS Foundation Research Program/Pulmonary Hypertension Association has awarded Rahul Kumar, PhD, of the ...
Active droplets
Long-lasting and precise dosing of medication thanks to an oil-hydrogel mixtureCredit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Using a mixture of oil ...
New drug combination restores beta cell function in animal model
Potential for diabetes remissionCredit: Helmholtz Zentrum München / Aimée Bastidas-Ponce The loss of the identity of insulin-secreting beta cells in ...
$3.2 million NIH award to support technology to fight deadly bacterial lung infections
Credit: Ella Maru Studio WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - New support may help Purdue University scientists target what they call one ...
On the trail of cancer stem cells
Credit: © Samantha Praktiknjo, MDC Two research teams from the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and their collaborators have ...
Tulane University launches new coronavirus research program to develop vaccine
Tulane National Primate Research Center working to develop a nonhuman primate model to study the disease's clinical progression, how it ...
New discovery has important implications for treating common eye disease
Credit: Dr Sarah Doyle, Trinity College Dublin. Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have made an important discovery with implications for ...
Finding new clues to brain cancer treatment
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic use AI, radiological MRI scans, and genomics to determine relative life expectancy of glioblastoma ...
Research team tackles superbug infections with novel therapy
University of Cincinnati scientist patented treatment for stubborn pathogensCredit: Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati There may be a solution on the ...
Scientists aim to learn how serotonin modulates behavior
Credit: Steven Flavell Lab/ MIT Picower Institute In popular experience the story of how serotonin modulates the brain might seem ...
Risk of coronavirus importation in Africa
Credit: Vittoria Colizza and colleagues The COVID-19 coronavirus continues to spread in China and cases have been reported in more ...
Language disorders as indicators of the diagnosis and progression of Huntington’s disease
A study shows that the first symptoms of the disease are revealed through linguistic changes in spontaneous speechCredit: UPF Huntington's ...
New front opened in fight against common cancer driver
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have revealed a new vulnerability in lymphomas ...
Colorectal cancer partner-in-crime identified
Credit: Toyoshima Y. et al., Cancer Immunology Research. December 1, 2019 A protein that helps colorectal cancer cells spread to ...
Researchers say extended antidepressant use creates physical dependence
Drug class 'notoriously difficult to quit,' yet not intended for permanent use, according to authors in the journal of the ...
Study points to better medical diagnosis through levitating human blood
Floating human plasma helps researchers detect diseases like opioid addictionCredit: UBCO New research from the UBC's Okanagan campus, Harvard Medical ...
Plant-based relatives of cholesterol could give boost to gene therapy
Credit: Image provided by Gaurav Sahay, OSU College of Pharmacy. PORTLAND, Ore. - Gene-infused nanoparticles used for combating disease work ...
