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(University of Exeter) Online computer games played by more than 30,000 people have helped scientists understand animal camouflage and color vision.

Videos Check out this video from the Wyss Institute and their new CRISPR-based diagnostic platform ... Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News 4WEB's record breaking quarter was highlighted by strong demand for its comprehensive Posterior Spine Truss System product line ... Contributed Author: 4WEB Medical Topics: Orthopedics

News While the biomechanical controls that determine the dimensions of other flagellar components ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: STEM

News In the researchers' petri dishes, different cell types develop ... Contributed Author: University of Luxembourg Topics: Neurology

A teen was denied treatment by the University of Utah Hospital after being diagnosed with severe pneumonia. Riley Hancey was left untreated as he tested positive for Tetrahydrocannabinol, a chief intoxicant in marijuana.

News Since most nanosilver textiles lose some of their silver coating every time they're laundered ... Contributed Author: Silke Schmidt, Phys.org Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News The PCR reaction involves the cyclical heating and cooling of a solution containing the genetic material being amplified ... Contributed Author: Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences Topi...

News Sustained angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels, and the suppression of the immune system are hallmarks of cancer ... Contributed Author: VIB (The Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) Topics: Oncology

News Their development of the new 3-D printed objects follows earlier work the team had done using smart shape memory polymers ... Contributed Author: Georgia Institute of Technology Topics: STEM

News The technology can aid pathologists to view and diagnose digital images of surgical pathology slides ... Contributed Author: Royal Philips Topics: Medical Diagnostics

An American company is planning to launch a chewing gum that can detect whether a person has cancer. When chewed, the gum can identify chemicals indicating cancer.

(Oxford University Press USA) Oxford University Press (OUP), together with Zhejiang University Press (ZUP) in Hangzhou, China, has launched a new, peer reviewed open-access journal: Food Quality and Safety (FQS).

(Osaka University) Research led by Osaka University showed that a regulatory protein of chromosome structure (cohesin) is essential for proper maintenance of gene expression in the developing brain. Reduced cohesin impai...

(Princeton University) Scientists at Princeton University have discovered a global regulator in the model bacterium Burkholderia thailandensis that 'switches on' many silent clusters at once, unleashing their full abilit...

(Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care) Researchers at Baycrest Health Sciences' Rotman Research Institute have reported the most comprehensive neuropsychological study of retired professional ice hockey players to date. Th...

(Oregon State University) Women with some characteristics commonly thought to increase pregnancy risks -- being over age 35; being overweight; and in some cases, having a vaginal birth after a cesarean section -- tend to...

(Elsevier Health Sciences) Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), characterized by chronic relapsing inflammation of the gut, is a common problem in the industrialized world. However, how IBD develops remains unknown. There i...

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Healthy college students who have a relatively small inferior frontal cortex - a brain region behind the temples that helps regulate thoughts and emotions - are more likely th...

(The Hodges Partnership) A recent study published in Pain Medicine validates the strong performance of Venebio Group's risk index tool -- Venebio Opioid Advisor (VOA) -- at predicting the likelihood of a life-threatening...

(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) Research led by Frank Lau, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has found that long-term breast reduction outcome...

(New York University) Investigators examined the relationship between injection drug use and immune activation in a sample of HIV infected and uninfected PWID. Findings suggest that efforts to encourage injection cessati...