WPI researcher creating safer, more accurate way to detect prostate cancer
WPI Biomedical Engineer receives $1.8 Million NIH grant to build robotic system to find and monitor common and deadly cancerCredit: ...
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New drug-delivery technology promises efficient, targeted cancer treatment
Credit: Photo by PNNL PULLMAN, Wash. -- A precise and non-toxic treatment that targets lung cancer cells at the nanoscale ...
Los Alamos AI model wins flu forecasting challenge
'Dante' beat 23 others in predicting the timing, peak, and short-term intensity of the unfolding 2018-2019 flu season. Enhanced version ...
IQSEC1 gene mutations cause new intellectual disability syndrome
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine It used to take several years or sometimes decades to unequivocally identify the genes that ...
New organelle that helps prevent cancer discovered in our cells
Could lead to better treatments, spare patients ones that won't workCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Scientists at the University of ...
Q-suite motor assessment tool promising for evaluating Huntington’s disease
Having a test to measure subtle changes in motor ability in young childrenCredit: National Institute of Neurological Disorders Amsterdam, NL, ...
Regenstrief and IUPUI researchers use EHRs to identify cancer symptom clusters
Award-winning methodology applicable to symptom clusters in other chronic diseasesCredit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS - Patients with chronic diseases such as ...
Identified a neural mechanism involved in the creation and consolidation of memories
Innovative methodology to study memoryCredit: University of Barcelona The memory of specific episodes is the base of autobiographical memory, but ...
Men with breast cancer face high mortality rates: Study
Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Men with breast cancer are more likely to die than their female counterparts, across all ...
3D printing, bioinks create implantable blood vessels
A modified triple-coaxial 3D cell printing technique allows fabrication of multilayer blood vessels that have the unique biomolecules needed to ...
A blood factor involved in weight loss and aging
Credit: © Institut Pasteur Aging is a process that affects all functions of the human body, particularly brain function. However, ...
A ‘shocking’ new way to treat infections
New Pitt research uses electrochemical approach to treat infections of metal-based implantsCredit: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH (Oct. 22, 2019) -- ...
Promising lessons learned from PROMISE
Special issue of the Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation offers takeaways from this interagency program to improve living, learning, and earning ...
Transient and long-term disruption of gut microbes after antibiotics
Antibiotic treatment can disrupt the gut microbiome at the strain level, with changes lasting as long as 6 monthsCredit: UAB ...
Women less likely to receive Canadian federal research funding
Credit: stevepb, Pixabay Women are significantly less likely than men to be awarded grants and New Investigator personnel awards from ...
New way to wrap liquid drops could improve drug delivery
Credit: BRIAN CALDWELL Researchers have developed a faster, cheaper way to coat liquid medication, an invention that could improve how ...
Novel study documents marked slowdown of cell division rates in old age
Clearer understanding of lower cell replication rates in old age may have implications for preventing cancer and slowing agingCredit: Justin ...
Oncolytics Biotech® and PrECOG announce study in metastatic breast cancer
The BRACELET-1 (PrE0113) study seeks to confirm predictive and prognostic biomarkers demonstrating pelareorep can expand application of checkpoint inhibitors in ...
Simple test predicts dangerous pregnancy disorder
Credit: Edith Cowan University Australian researchers have developed a way to predict the onset of a deadly pregnancy condition that ...
IOF report underscores urgent need to maintain mobility in the world’s older population
Launched for World Osteoporosis Day, a new edition of the IOF Compendium of Osteoporosis highlights alarming increases in dependency ratios ...
