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News Specifically, once the wearable is placed on the wrist, it wireless measures electrical changes across the skin, according to MIT ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Wearables

News The scientists presume that the ability to compensate an impaired process by another part of the brain depends on the hierarchy level ... Contributed Author: Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Scienc...

News Lipomi and colleagues built a glove that decodes the American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet and then wirelessly transmits the text to electronic ... Contributed Author: PLOS Topics: STEM

(Elsevier) Children conceived using donor sperm have similar health and well-being to the general population, according to a study published in Reproductive BioMedicine Online.

(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) DFG submits list to Federal Labour Minister. 89 supplements and new entries are included and a high number of MAK values werereviewed.

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) The scientific textbook depiction of the flu virus is about to get a facelift, due to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine team's discovery that a model ...

(Frontiers) Scientists in Brazil have imaged elderly female yoga practitioners' brains and found they have greater cortical thickness in the left prefrontal cortex, in brain areas associated with cognitive functions like...

(University of North Carolina Health Care) UNC Health Care is one of only 27 systems in the United States to be recognized as a 'Most Wired Advanced' health system by the American Hospital Association (AHA) for its use o...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Immune cells with a general knack for recognizing and killing many types of infected or abnormal cells also can be engineered to hunt down cells with specific targets on...

(University of California - San Francisco) UCSF Health has signed an affiliation with Golden Gate Urgent Care (GGUC) to collaborate in providing top-quality urgent care in the GGUC's six Bay Area locations.

(SAGE) Many women are turning to egg freezing to promote fertility, but what happens when it isn't an option because of special medical conditions? And, what option is there for women who want to preserve hormonal functi...

(ETH Zurich) ETH researchers from the Functional Materials Laboratory have developed a silicone heart that beats almost like a human heart. In collaboration with colleagues from the Product Development Group Zurich, they...

(University of California - Davis) Scientists from the University of California, Davis, have detected a herpes virus in wild mountain gorillas that is very similar to the Epstein-Barr virus in humans.

(University of Plymouth) An international team has created the first data network for research into Huntington's disease, freely available to all scientists in this field.

(University of Wisconsin-Madison) A lack of evidence that bats are key reservoirs of human disease has not prevented their vilification or efforts to exterminate bat colonies where threats are presumed to lurk. 'The fact...

(Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin were able to positively influence the immune response in severe viral and bacterial co-infection. Using a human lung tissue...

(Elsevier) Maternal obesity and child neurodevelopmental problems have both increased in the US and scientists have suggested a possible link. A new study has found that the heavier mothers were when they entered pregnan...

(Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) Depending on what generation you belong to, the term 'improvisational dance' may conjure up images of beatniks grooving to the beat of bongos in a darkened coffeehouse or the black-cl...

(American Society for Radiation Oncology) The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has issued an update to its recommendations for medical insurance coverage regarding the use of proton beam therapy to treat c...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Researchers examined the sexual behaviors of a nationally representative group of US women that can prevent against or increase risk for HIV infection and reported the di...

The Office of Inspector General revealed that mentally ill inmates in federal prisons are being placed in confinement for long periods. The report alleges that the Bureau of Prisons has done a poor job at providing care ...

News The polymer shell also protects the radicals from being broken down in the bloodstream ... Contributed Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Topics: Medical Diagnostics