Medicine & Health
Participatory breeding program assists organic tomato growers
(American Society for Horticultural Science) The first two phases of a participatory breeding program for organic tomatoes revealed grower preferences...
What counts as fair?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Neuroscientists at MIT and University of Rochester find that children's ability to count is key to...
Sugar molecules lose their ‘Cinderella’ status
(University of York) A team from the York Structural Biology Laboratory in the Department of Chemistry at the University of...
Controlling levels of specific gut bacteria could help prevent severe diarrhea
(Michigan State University) Everyone has suffered from it. It's ranged from mild to severe. It's a condition that's most-often described...
Copenhagen company to re-invent fresh air for city dwellers
(Faculty of Science - University of Copenhagen) Air pollution is making city living detrimental to health at an increasing speed....
Research points to development of single vaccine for Chikungunya, related viruses
(Washington University School of Medicine) What if a single vaccine could protect people from infection by many different viruses? That...
$1.225M Viertel Fellowship to advance critical lung research
(Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) Lung researcher Dr. Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat has won a competitive $1.225 million Viertel Fellowship for an...
An effective integrated reproductive strategy for hearing loss by researches from China
(Science China Press) Hearing loss is one of the most prevalent sensory disorders, affecting one in 500 newborns without effective...
Weight loss and lipid improvements sustained 8 years after surgery
(Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center) Eight years after having gastric bypass surgery as teenagers, patients continue to have significant weight...
Lung cancer surgery can be beneficial for high-risk patients with early stage disease
(Elsevier Health Sciences) Surgical lung resection, in which part of a lung is removed, can be a safe and effective...
Heart valve patients may benefit from managing own blood thinners
(Elsevier Health Sciences) Allowing select patients to self-manage blood thinners following heart valve surgery may lead to a lower risk...
Researchers develop antibiotic alternative for wound infections
(Washington State University) Washington State University researchers for the first time have discovered how electrical stimulation works for the treatment...
UH professor wins bronze for research of rare neurological disorder
(University of Houston) Michihisa Umetani, assistant professor of biology and biochemistry at the University of Houston's Center for Nuclear Receptors...
A treasure trove of new cancer biomarkers
(RIKEN) Research conducted at the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies (CLST) in Japan and the Harry Perkins Institute of...
New ACP paper explores impact of ‘concierge’ and other direct patient contracting practices
(American College of Physicians) The American College of Physicians today released a position paper exploring the factors driving the growth...
Endocrine Society experts delve into diabetes among seniors, microbiome and transgender health
(The Endocrine Society) Health and science journalists are invited to hear about emerging trends in the microbiome, transgender health, diabetes,...
Black mouse-eared bat goes green: First case of a fruit-eating bat in the largest genus
(Pensoft Publishers) Out of more than 110 allegedly well-studied mouse-eared bat species, there is one that has been keeping its...
Medicines do not seem to degrade faster in space
(Springer) The results of an opportunistic, pilot-scale study led by Virginia Wotring suggest that medication degradation on the ISS does...
Pancreatic cancer: CD44 protein induces metastases
(Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) ) Due to their rapid metastatic spread, pancreatic tumors are among the most aggressive types...
Highly sensitive sensors successfully map electrical patterns of embryonic heart
(University of Sussex) Highly sensitive sensors have been successfully used to map the electrical activity of the developing heart in...
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Rail industry urged to consider safety risks of space weather
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‘Exceptional’ results in phase III leukaemia trial
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Advanced MRI technology detects changes in the brain after COVID-19
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Cell therapy appears safe and effective for lymphoma in remission
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New study reveals latest data on global burden of cardiovascular disease
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal