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A peptide secreted by a species of Indian frog can destroy variants of the influenza virus. Frogs, with little defensive weaponry to rely on, have armed themselves with a chemical arsenal that gets leached out through th...

News Finding variants of naturally occurring proteins with specific characteristics is only one approach ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: STEM

Product Announcement Rigid-Flex Circuits maximize three-dimensional space and support higher component density and leadless SMT packages ... Contributed Author: Tech-Etch Topics: STEM

News The University's Assistant Professor Ying Sun and co-workers used statistics to improve fall detection ... Contributed Author: KAUST Topics: Home Healthcare

News Study Watch is meant for research and will be put to work in several studies including a multi-year study to identify patterns in the progression of Parkinson's disease ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: STEM

News These bandages are 3D printed and can help doctors customize the patient's treatment ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Wearables

A study revealed that mental illnesses and suicides were at an all-time high in the United States. Researchers indicated that the Great Recession, coupled with lack of proper psychiatric healthcare coverage, led to the r...

A study revealed that most American parents struggle when figuring out the apt allergy medicine for their child. Reportedly, the expiry date of the medicine was not checked by 18 percent parents.

News Masterflow Plus is a new solution designed to treat Vertebral Compression Fractures (A1-type according to Magerl and AOSpine Classifications) ... Contributed Author: Business Wire Topics: Orthopedics

News One of the experimental bottlenecks in studying synaptic behavior and degenerative diseases that affect the synapse is performing electrical ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: STEM

News The research group has collected EEG-data while uttering Japanese digits and monosyllables ... Contributed Author: Toyohashi University of Technology Topics: Neurology

News Scientists at the University of Washington, Texas A&M University, and the Western Australian Museum have discovered and named a new genus ... Contributed Author: University of Washington Topics: STEM

News Cellular immunotherapies have shown promise in clinical trials, but challenges remain to making them more widely available ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: Oncology

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Beverly L. Davidson, Ph.D., a nationally prominent researcher at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, has been elected to the 2017 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences....

(ETH Zurich) Researchers have clarified how vaccinations can combat bacterial intestinal diseases: vaccine-induced antibodies in the intestine chain up pathogens as they grow in the intestine, which prevents disease and ...

(Baylor College of Medicine) Viruses that specifically kill bacteria, called bacteriophages, might one day help solve the growing problem of bacterial infections that are resistant to antibiotic treatment.

(European Society of Cardiology) The use of smartphones to assist the continuity of care between hospital and community is set to be discussed at EuroHeartCare 2017, which will be held 18 to 20 May in Jonkoping, Sweden, ...

(Experimental Biology 2017) American Physiological Society (APS) President Jane Reckelhoff, PhD, of the University of Mississippi Medical Center, has developed an engaging President's Symposium Series to be presented dur...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Cannabinoids contain anti-inflammatory properties that could make them useful in the treatment of a wide-range of skin diseases, according to researchers at the University...

(University of Southern California - Health Sciences) Accelerated healing isn't just for superheroes. A new study in Cell Reports suggests a way that mere mortals can potentially speed their recovery from a wide variety ...

(Karolinska Institutet) One of the most common combined oral contraceptive pills has a negative impact on women's quality of life but does not increase depressive symptoms. This is shown by a major randomized, placebo-co...

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Although nutrition-label users eat roughly the same amount of food as less-discerning diners, the two groups diverge when it comes to the quality of the food they eat, says a ...