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Though genetically modified crops may steal the spotlight, similarly reprogrammed insects may have just as big an effect on the agricultural industry. Biotechnology company Oxitec is moving forward with plans to develop ...

Product Announcement Medical lasers are designed for use in hospitals, outpatient surgical centers, and physician offices ... Contributed Author: Laird Thermoelectrics Topics: Surgical

News this CRM device is able to sense when a patient is near an MRI environment and switch to "MRI mode" ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Implantables

News AI, machine learning and deep learning have disrupted many industries and areas of activity that were previously the exclusive arena of human cognition ... Contributed Author: Biogerontology Research Foundation Topi...

About 34 children are sent to the emergency room each day for using cotton-tipped applicators to clean the ear. Why is it not safe to use these products?

A 26-year-old woman's skin melted off after she was given an incorrect dosage of the prescription drug Lamictal. The woman suffered from Stevens Johnson Syndrome, a rare skin disorder as a result.

(University of British Columbia) New research suggests that simply telling a young man that an energy drink has been added to his alcoholic beverage can make him feel more intoxicated, daring and sexually self-confident.

(Brown University) New research shows that New Englanders are susceptible to serious health effects even when the heat index is below 100, a finding that has helped to change the National Weather Service threshold for he...

(University of Plymouth) The University of Plymouth and a collaboration of Cornish and national partners have been awarded £2.7m European funding to improve the use of e-health in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The c...

(Queensland University of Technology) A test to assess the effect of red Smarties on happiness has been used to teach the often 'dull' or 'boring' concepts of clinical research. The study, published in the Asia-Pacific J...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A new study has shown that compared to HIV-negative young adults, those positive for HIV infection with limited or no treatment history had significant disruptions in who...

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Ecuador and Minnesota, have found altered short-term neurological behaviors in children ...

(American Institute of Biological Sciences) The BioScience Talks podcast () features discussions of topical issues related to the biological sciences.

(University of Sussex) African lions are under the same threats extinct sabre-toothed tigers faced.

(University of California - Santa Barbara) Biologists discover an unexpected role for a light-sensitive receptor protein in the central brain that regulates circadian rhythms.

(Brigham Young University) Despite their best efforts, no scientist has ever come close to stopping humans from aging. Even anti-aging creams can't stop Old Father Time.But new research from Brigham Young University reve...

(Goethe University Frankfurt) With drug resistance being on the rise worldwide, bacterial infections pose one of the greatest global threats to human health. By deciphering the host-pathogen interaction on a molecular le...

(Cornell University) Which came first, overall bigger brains or larger brain regions that control specialized behaviors? Neuroscientists have debated this question for decades, but a new Cornell University study settles ...

(Queen Mary University of London) Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have now sampled spinal cords of thirteen people with MS and five healthy controls, and found that spinal cord cross sectional area is no...

(Oxford University Press USA) Surgical site infections are noteworthy and costly health complications. Patients with infections are likely to stay longer an intensive care unit and a hospital. Those with infections have ...

(University of California - Los Angeles) A region of the brain that helps to manage body functions including stress, heart rate and blood pressure reacts differently between men and women when presented with certain stim...

(University of Groningen) Plants are very efficient at turning photons into electrons. But the transport of these electrons is a rather chaotic process, University of Groningen scientists have discovered. They used molec...