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News By targeting one facet of the brain's electrical activity, UNC neuroscientist Flavio Frohlich showed it's possible to enhance memory, laying the groundwork for a new treatment paradigm for neurological and psychiatr...

News Pixium Vision announced that it has been awarded CE mark for its IRIS®II bionic vision system. This 150-electrode epi-retinal implant features a design intended to be explantable and upgradeable. Staff Author:  Le...

News Drexel University researchers show how multiple chains of microscopic magnetic bead-based robots can link up to reach impressive speeds swimming through in a microfluidic environment. Contributed Author:  Drexel Un...

News Investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed a hydrogel patch that can adhere to tumors in a preclinical model of colon cancer, delivering a local, combination treatment as the elastic gel breaks dow...

News In their mission to design new biomaterials that promote tissue regeneration, Drexel University researchers have identified how inflammation, when precisely controlled, is crucial to bone repair. Contributed Author:...

Industry Brief The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided additional guidance on the content and form of these unique device identifier (UDI) tags--and is seeking feedback on its proposal. Staff Author:  Lee Go...

Oxford University researchers have found a way to detect ovarian cancer early and identified an enzyme that is key in making ovarian cancer more deadly. Their results, published in two journals, provide new research rout...

News Researchers at CNRS, INSERM, Aix-Marseille University and AP-HM have just created a virtual brain that can reconstitute the brain of a person affected by epilepsy. Contributed Author:  Michel-Ange, CNRS

Although active surveillance, or watchful waiting, for patients with low risk prostate cancer has become an increasingly acceptable strategy for disease management, many men opt for definitive therapies such as radical p...

(Michigan State University) Teenagers who have easy access to drugs and alcohol in the home are more likely to drink and do drugs in their early and late 20s. That's according to the one of the first studies to look at h...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Vaccination against a single strain of Zika virus should be sufficient to protect against genetically diverse strains of the virus, according to a study conduct...

(University of Rochester Medical Center) Patients carrying certain mutations that cause Long QT Syndrome, a rare cardiac rhythm disorder, have an increased risk for developing seizures and have more severe cardiac sympto...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) A new study, which followed 180 pre-term infants from birth to age seven, found that babies who were fed more breast milk within the first 28 days of life had had larger volumes of certain ...

(Frontiers) A diet high in saturated fat can make your brain struggle to control what you eat, says a new study in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience.

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) In a study of more than 5,000 people, investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital have found that greater intake of nuts was associated with lower levels of biomarkers of inflammation, ...

(Medical University of South Carolina) Medical University of South Carolina investigators report preclinical research showing that Krüppel-like factor 12 promotes colorectal cancer cell growth by activating early growth...

(Biochemical Society) Scientists have developed a new method of measuring the activity of disease-causing mutations in the LRRK2 gene, a major cause of inherited Parkinson's disease.

(Michigan State University) In the first comprehensive work of its kind, a Michigan State University criminologist has completed a study on the implementation and outcomes of public safety consolidation -- the merging of...

(Northwell Health) Feinstein Institute received $1.5 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to study home-based pulmonary rehabilitation.

(Association for Psychological Science) A new research replication project, involving 24 labs and over 2,100 participants, failed to reproduce findings from a previous study that suggested that self-control is a depletab...