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Eating a healthy diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and fish can help lower the risk of developing acne for adult women, a new study says. Keeping stress levels low can also reduce a person's likelihood for the skin condit...

(Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) By screening thousands of individuals, an international team led by researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the University of Bristol, the Broad Institu...

To the 78 organs that make up the human body, we can add one more: the mesentery. Located in our abdominal cavity, the mesentery is a belt of tissue that holds our intestines in place. While anatomists knew it was there,...

Product Announcement Connectors deliver robust continuous power and sense without physical connection. Contributed Author: PR Web Topics: Surgical

News We use the CRISPR methodology to study both immune cells and cancer cells. Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: STEM

News The device, the Myo armband, is controlled by hand movements based on Samsung Gear VR hardware. Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News They hope their new technique could prevent vision loss via earlier diagnosis and treatment for these diseases. Contributed Author: University of Rochester Medical Center Topics: Medical Diagnostics

The chemical composition of your alcoholic drink decides the level of hangover you are going to get. The complex chemical compound called congeners is responsible for the ugly side effects of drinking way too much.

A 10-month-old baby girl had to be resuscitated by doctors twice after she had suddenly stopped breathing. It was later discovered that the child had ingested traces of the dangerous opiate fentanyl in her system.

News The device uses the patient's own blood serum as an electrolyte rather than draw its power from a potentially toxic lithium-ion battery. Contributed Author: Colin Poitras, UConn Communications Topics: Implantables

News The idea behind their innovative fluorescent small molecule imaging reagent is that it binds to specific intermediate filament proteins. Contributed Author: Chris DeFrancesco, University of Connecticut Topics: Medic...

News Their goal is to create a synthetic, porous, biologically compatible "scaffold" that mimics the normal extracellular environment of skeletal muscle. Contributed Author: James Urton, University of Washington Topics: ...

News Chon and his research team are working to create a small armband that can be worn all day, without any wired connection, to monitor for atrial fibrillation over an extended period of time without disrupting a person...

News Two recent papers describe the latest ways that XROMM technology, which has spread to dozens of similar research facilities worldwide, enables studies of human and animal motion in previously unseen detail. Contribu...

The Southwestern city of Quetta in Pakistan launches a special anti-polio drive as the rare Type 2 polio virus surfaced in sewage samples. Officials have recruited religious leaders for the mission amid resistance of ext...

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) A life-threatening infection in an infant with leukemia led to a St. Jude Children's Research Hospital discovery of how prolonged infection sets the stage for bacterial persistence...

(Canadian Science Publishing) If losing weight is on your list of New Year resolutions, be sure to include both diet and exercise. New research published today in Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism evaluated c...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) A common antioxidant found in human breast milk and foods like kiwi fruit can protect against nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in the offspring of obese mice, acco...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Funding and publication of gun violence research are disproportionately low compared to other leading causes of death in the United States, according to new res...

(Future Science Group) The Future Science Group (FSG) published journal, Future Oncology, has released a special issue that examines the field of psycho-oncology, which aims to bring together the biomedical and psychosoc...

(NIH/National Institute of Mental Health) Researchers have discovered molecular mechanisms that may underlie a woman's susceptibility to disabling irritability, sadness, and anxiety in the days leading up to her menstrua...

(University of Washington Health Sciences/UW Medicine) Researchers have found promising results for treating depression with a video game interface that targets underlying cognitive issues associated with depression rath...