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(Osaka University) The research group at Osaka University has succeeded in developing a safe and easy self-donning and self-adjusting surgical gown called 'Selfgown,' which could also minimize environmental infection fro...

Road traffic accidents are the leading cause of death among adolescents worldwide, says a WHO report, stating most victims are pedestrians or cyclists. Almost 1.2 million teens lose their life every year, and most teenag...

A highschool student collapsed in his class after drinking three caffeinated beverages over a period of two hours. The coroner said that the teenager died due to caffeine-induced heart event.

Mice with artificial, 3-D printed ovaries have successfully given birth to healthy offspring. It's another success for members of the same Northwestern University team that in March reproduced an entire menstrual cycle u...

News The 2017 ECN IMPACT Awards are the culmination of a Product Technology Awards history stretching back 60 years ... Contributed Author: ECN IMPACT Awards Team Topics: STEM

News The technology is a combination of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and linear accelerators (linacs), according to phys.org ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Oncology

News he development and use of innovative materials, fibers, fabrics and processes should assure Swiss textile companie ... Contributed Author: Martina Peter, Phys.org Topics: STEM

News This hybrid nanoparticle structure enables DNA strands to be attached to the upconversion nanoparticles ... Contributed Author: National University of Singapore Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News Through "heart-on-a-chip" technology--modeling a human heart on an engineered chip and measuring the effects of compound exposure on functions ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: Cardiovascular

Drinkers may find that their sober and drunk selves are a far cry from each other, but a study has found that observers don't actually see much difference in one's drunk personality. The findings are hoped to assist in n...

A study revealed that people with high physical activity levels age lesser than those who have a sedentary lifestyle. Researchers studied the cellular structure to determine how the aging process altered with the variati...

The Minnesota measles outbreak spread to the Le Sueur County, where two cases were confirmed on May 15. These additional cases took the total number of people infected to 58, making it the worst measles outbreak since 19...

More than 3000 adolescents die every day, totalling 1.2 million deaths a year, from largely preventable causes, according to a new report from WHO and partners.

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) The preparations that are used for allergen immunotherapy against bee sting allergies do not always contain all the relevant venom components...

(Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis School of Science) Nicholas Manicke of the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis is developing a new method to screen for lethal designe...

(American Academy of Sleep Medicine) Sleep clinicians and scientists from around the world will present new research and discuss the latest developments in clinical sleep medicine and circadian science at SLEEP 2017, the...

(New York University) Researchers surveyed individuals entering NYC EDM parties about their drug usage, with almost one out of ten participants who reported no 'bath salt' use as per the gate question then reported use o...

(Sanford-Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute) Compound could serve as basis for drugs to prevent neurological complications of Zika.

(University of Texas at Arlington) A leading psychology professor at The University of Texas at Arlington has focused international attention on how a chronic pain patient's irrational doubts about never getting better c...

(University of Illinois at Chicago) A team led by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, along with collaborators at the University of Michigan and Sage Bionetworks, has won the Mood Challenge for Research...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Penn Medicine's Pennsylvania Hospital (PAH) and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) have received a three-year, $1.35 million grant from the Pennsylvania D...

(University of Eastern Finland) Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland have discovered a likely cause for visual impairment and eventual loss of vision in the Finnish variant of Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis...