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The Roman Catholic Church has reaffirmed its ban on the use of gluten-free altar breads to celebrate the Eucharist during mass. The Vatican only allows low-gluten hosts provided they still contain enough gluten to obtain...

Videos To make them, the team used a thin sheet of silicone and places it between two layers of conductive fabric ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Wearables

(Uppsala University) A research group at Uppsala University presents in PNAS a new, small-scale method that may become a smart shortcut for determining the 'bioavailability' of a pharmaceutical drug within cells. 'Findin...

News Halcyon is a system that is comfortable for the patient while delivering ease of use for healthcare providers, accelerated installation timeframes ... Contributed Author: Varian Medical Systems Topics: Oncology

News The biomaterial is a hydrogel -- a material consisting largely of water -- with a viscosity similar to toothpaste ... Contributed Author: Dara Farhadi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Topics: Implantables

News It was bendy and stretchy and degraded really fast ... Contributed Author: Weill Cornell Medicine Topics: Surgical

News The new technology is not a hologram, and differs from 3-D movies or 3-D computer design ... Contributed Author: Margaret Allen, Phys.org Topics: STEM

A girl died after attempting to use her cellphone while charging in the bathtub. Her family is now spreading awareness about the dangers of using electrical devices near water.

(University of Illinois at Chicago) Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have received a $1.2 million four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate new biological agents that mimic...

(University of Gothenburg) There is effective protection against hip fracture for the many elderly people whose skeleton is declining in strength, as a side effect of cortisone treatment. If patients receive the osteopor...

(University of Adelaide) Chemicals found in everyday plastics materials are linked to cardiovascular disease, type-2 diabetes and high blood pressure in men, according to Australian researchers.

(University of Surrey) People who are believed to be immoral are unable to reverse individuals' perception of them, potentially resulting in difficulties in the workplace and barriers in accessing fair and equal treatmen...

(University of Washington Health Sciences/UW Medicine) Information from nearly 4,000 US residents indicates that only 61 percent of all gun owners and 14 percent of non-owners who live with a firearm owner have received ...

(University of Exeter) Playing football can improve bone development in adolescent boys, new research shows.

(SAGE) A research paper in the Journal of Health Service Research & Policy provides, for the first time, the statistical evidence showing that, regardless of socio-economic class or other demographics, people who have ad...

(University of Missouri-Columbia) Research has indicated that women who take hormone replacement therapies have a higher incidence of breast cancer. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri have linked natural and ...

(American Chemical Society) Poor diet and a lack of physical activity are major contributors to the world's obesity epidemic, but researchers have also identified common environmental pollutants that could play a role. N...

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Migrating birds complete long non-stop flights of many hours for songbirds and days for some shorebirds to reach breeding or wintering grounds. During such flights a bird's metabo...

(University of Surrey) Vitamin D deficiency in expectant mothers during pregnancy has a negative effect on the social development and motor skills of pre-school age children, a new study in the British Journal of Nutriti...

(Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience) Researchers at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience developed a technique for selectively targeting and controlling the interneurons of the cerebellar molecula...

(IOP Publishing) A new study from the University of Southern California could pave the way for improving personalized lung cancer care and treatment. The research used mathematical modelling to examine if there was a lin...

(RMIT University) Researchers identified a protein that is activated by viruses, including influenza, rhinovirus (the common cold), dengue and HIV. Once activated, it suppresses the body's key antiviral reaction. The stu...