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Poor quality sleep can lead to buildup of amyloid and tau, compounds linked to Alzheimer's disease. Experts and studies, however, offer hints that may help people with sleep problems such as insomnia.

Product Announcement This new, off the shelf, hygienic sensor solution has been designed for the pharmaceutical industry ... Contributed Author: European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group Topics: STEM

News The team's approach uses gold nanoclusters treated with lysozyme enzymes that have innate defenses against pathogens ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: STEM

News In the search for alternative, Han and colleagues focused on proteins, which are naturally occurring nanomaterials ... Contributed Author: University of Massachusetts Medical School Topics: STEM

News The implanted chips are ultra-conformable to the brain surface, very light, and flexible enough to move with the tissue ... Contributed Author: Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science Topics: I...

News The system will be designed to have both "read-out" and "write-in" capabilities ... Contributed Author: Brown University Topics: Neurology

News By combining their FAST technique with specific staining procedures, Seiriki and colleagues were able to visualize subcellular nuclei ... Contributed Author: Osaka University Topics: Neurology

Two new large studies published Monday, July 10, showed a link between coffee and longer life through reducing the risk of death from heart disease, stroke, diabetes, or even cancer. Coffee benefits held up even if one d...

In a new study, a mass vaccination campaign for a meningitis outbreak in New Zealand has offered the unintended benefit of helping reduce gonorrhea incidence. Should we expect a gonorrhea vaccine soon amid the threat of ...

(Hiroshima University) Over a century since scientists first observed that cells and their nucleus grow at a constant ratio, we are now closer to finding out how.This study was carried out by Assistant Professor Kazunori...

(American Chemical Society) Chemists have found potential drugs and other really useful compounds in some truly bizarre places in nature. From a natural immune defense in the blood of komodo dragons, to a sponge armed wi...

(Indiana University) A visit by a home health worker, such as a nurse or physical therapist, within a week of an older adult's discharge from a skilled nursing facility appears to lower the risk of hospital readmission w...

(Stanford University Medical Center) A pair of studies led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine demonstrates that scientists can predict, with a high degree of accuracy, which patients with post-t...

(eLife ) Researchers have identified a pheromone released by female insects after mating that tells males exactly when they are ready to mate again.

(Naval Research Laboratory) Antibiotic resistance is one of the most significant global public health problems in many developing countries. NRL, working with researchers in the Republic of Kenya, discovered a high preva...

(University of California - Davis) Electric fields can be used to guide neural stem cells transplanted into the brain towards a specific location. The research, published July 11 in the journal Stem Cell Reports, opens p...

(American College of Physicians) Below please find summaries of new articles that will be published in the next issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. The summaries are not intended to substitute for the full articles as ...

(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) A widely used screening tool deployed in the early phases of drug discovery to weed out undesirable compounds is wrong so often it can't be trusted on its own, according to s...

(The Wistar Institute) Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ('Syndax,' the 'Company' or 'we') (Nasdaq:SNDX), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing entinostat and SNDX-6352 in multiple cancer indications, in colla...

(Mayo Clinic) In a new study published in Prosthetics and Orthotics International, Mayo Clinic researchers describe the direct medical costs of falls in adults with a transfemoral amputation. In this type of amputation, ...

(Springer) Doctors often prescribe preventative drugs to women who are to receive spinal blocks while giving birth via a Caesarean section. Such preventative treatment against hypotension, however, can have side-effects....

(University of Illinois at Chicago) Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have identified an enzyme present in the cornea that becomes dramatically upregulated and triggers inflammation during and even aft...