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The FDA today announced plans to reduce levels of nicotine in cigarettes, a move that is aimed at lowering smoking rates in the U.S. In a press release, FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb said the move will cut the amount o...

Researchers recently claimed that patients do not need to finish out their antibiotics. Doctors are now firing back over the irresponsible and potentially harmful advice.

News Penn researchers used a near-infrared contrast agent called OTL38 that makes tumor cells glow ... Contributed Author: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Topics: Oncology

News The trick to fixing that error without investing in additional expensive equipment is software that makes a computer model out of the original image ... Contributed Author: Vanderbilt University Topics: Oncology

News So far, synthetic biological circuits can only sense a handful of signals, giving them an incomplete picture of conditions in the host cell ...

News To test their hypothesis, the team used a robotic system--Tethered Pelvic Assist Device (TPAD)--invented in Agrawal's Robotics and Rehabilitation ... Contributed Author: Columbia University School of Engineering and...

News To combat these bacterial infections in an eco-friendly way the EU-funded SKHINCAPS project is combining concentrated plant oil with nanotechnology ... Contributed Author: Alan Archer-Boyd, From Horizon, Phys.org To...

(Cornell University) Cornell University food scientists have found that people with a diminished ability to taste food choose sweeter -- and likely higher-calorie -- fare. This could put people on the path to gaining wei...

(University of Veterinary Medicine -- Vienna) The female sex hormone estrogen plays an important role in the structural stability of bones. To date, however, it had been unclear exactly which cells were involved in the h...

(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) A study published online in The FASEB Journal, involving mice, suggests that EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate), the most abundant catechin and biologically acti...

(Rockefeller University) Scientists identified two new populations of cells in the brain that potently regulate appetite. The two types of cells, located in a part of the brainstem called the dorsal raphe nucleus, are po...

(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) Research led by Lauri Byerley, Ph.D., R.D., Research Associate Professor of Physiology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has found that walnuts in the diet ...

(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) along with the US Food and Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) have named the 2017-2018 class of the ...

(University of Rochester Medical Center) Antibiotics are lifesaving drugs, but overuse is leading to antibiotic resistance, one of the world's most pressing health threats. Scientists identified 11 genetic markers in blo...

(National Research University Higher School of Economics) Researchers from the HSE Centre for Cognition & Decision Making and the Control of Complex Systems Laboratory (Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering, Ru...

(Rice University) The structure of a protein key to the survival and spread of a virus that affects salmon could help researchers form strategies to treat the flu in humans.

(Duke University Medical Center) The push to develop treatments for Alzheimer's disease has yielded a greater understanding of the disease, but has failed to generate successful new drugs.To blame are the many undefined ...

(American Geriatrics Society) A new study has found that a community-based service learning experience involving greater interaction with older adults had a positive impact on career development for medical residents (ph...

(Northwell Health) Researchers at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and the department of neurosurgery at the Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, announced today that they have published a paper with researc...

(Sanford Health/Sanford Research) The Sanford Project: T-Rex Study, a Phase 2 clinical trial conducted collaboratively by Sanford Health and Caladrius Biosciences Inc. has reached the halfway point for enrollment and tre...

(ecancermedicalscience) New open access monograph gives unique insight into extent of childhood cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa.

(Hokkaido University) A molecule produced by insulating glial cells facilitates the functional wiring of brain cells involved in motor coordination.