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Researchers discover that removing senescent cells from joints reverses osteoarthritis and promotes cartilage growth in mice. The procedure could also benefit advanced osteoarthritis cases in humans.

News The researchers' invention consists of paper with thin layers of aluminum and hexagon/honeycomb patterns that serve as electrodes to produce ... Contributed Author: Rutgers University Topics: STEM

Videos This device mimics a spleen and helps to accelerate blood-cleansing ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News The research found that tweaking the electronic structure of current probes improves their inherent fluorescence ... Contributed Author: American Friends of Tel Aviv University Topics: Oncology

News The team developed WiGait to be more privacy-minded than cameras, showing you as nothing more than a moving dot on a screen ... Contributed Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CSAIL Topics: STEM

News The team developed the drill from scratch to meet the needs of the neurosurgical unit ... Contributed Author: University of Utah Health Topics: Surgical

Middle-agers and seniors on average sleep less than younger people, about 6 to 7 hours a night compared to 8 to 9 hours. But why is this so? And are older people therefore sleep deprived, which can give rise to chronic m...

'Stealthing,' the new trend that implies nonconsensual condom removal, could be construed as sexual assault. Already punishable under Irish law as a sex crime, this practice inflicts emotional and physical trauma compara...

Minnesota health officials faced opposition from anti-vaccine activists even as measles cases in the state increase. The outbreak is mostly centered on the Somali-Minnesotan community of Hennepin County who opposed vacci...

The FDA approved the Novartis AG's Rydapt on April 28. The drug is targeted toward AML patients and the FDA lists it for $22,500 for an average 42-day treatment.

(New York Genome Center) Dr. Sanjana's three-year grant was awarded for his research entitled "A human T cell genetic screen for melanoma immunotherapy," which aims to characterize genetic mutations that lead to immunoth...

(Cell Transplantation Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair) Dr. Li-Ru Zhao received the 2017 Bernard Sanberg Memorial Award at the 24th annual meeting of the American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair (ASN...

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Studies have suggested a link between fitness and memory, but researchers have struggled to find the mechanism that links them. A new study by University of Illinois researche...

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) UCLA study identifies a potential test that may help select patients for whom combination therapy could be most effective.

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) The suicide of an automotive pioneer has spurred research on bipolar disorder, including the first line of bipolar-specific stem cells. Now, his family has made a new $5 milli...

(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) A new mechanism developed by Tel Aviv University researchers produces a water-resistant chemiluminescent probe that is 3,000-times-brighter than those currently in use. It has pa...

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) Using a mouse heart attack model, Ganesh Halade, Ph.D., and his University of Alabama at Birmingham colleagues have shown that knocking out one particular lipid-modifying enzyme, alo...

(Mayo Clinic) A Mayo Clinic research team has developed a new type of cancer-fighting nanoparticle aimed at shrinking breast cancer tumors, while also preventing recurrence of the disease.

(City of Hope) A City of Hope-led study found that the use of low-dose aspirin (81 mg) reduces the risk of breast cancer in women who are part of the California's Teacher's Study.

(NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) May is Asthma Awareness Month, and the National Institutes of Health is finding solutions to improve the health of the nearly 25 million people in the United Stat...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) In perhaps the largest national suicide intervention trial ever conducted, researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Brown University found tha...

(American Association for Cancer Research) A noninvasive PET imaging method that measures granzyme B, a protein released by immune cells to kill cancer cells, was able to distinguish mouse and human tumors that responded...