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If bacteria all glowed the way some bioluminescent species do, you'd probably go blind walking into your kitchen. An abundance of organic material and damp surfaces allows microbial life to flourish around spaces where f...

News The open architecture of NexSys PCS facilitates bi-directional connectivity to donor management systems enabling automated collection procedure ... Contributed Author: Haemonetics Corporation Topics: Surgical

News New echocardiography strain imaging is now allowing cardiologists to hunt for any early warning signs of heart muscle function changes ... Contributed Author: Lauren Woods - UConn, Schools of Medicine and Dental Med...

News The microfluidic chip contains a cross-shaped sorting area and three-branched microfluidic channel ... Contributed Author: Nagoya University

News The approach described uses circuits composed of ribonucleic acid or RNA ... Contributed Author: Arizona State University

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(Oregon State University) Pregnant women on Medicaid are more likely to receive timely prenatal care following Oregon's implementation of coordinated care organizations, or CCOs, which are regional networks of health car...

(Drexel University) For women who have never experienced intimate partner violence before, a diagnosis of HIV during pregnancy means that they are twice as likely to experience violence after their child is born, a new s...

(Case Western Reserve University) Even among people who had just joined a gym and expected to visit regularly, getting paid to exercise did little to make their commitment stick, according to a new study from Case Wester...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) A new study led by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests that testing for the presence of orthostatic hypotension, a form of low blood pressure, be performed within one minute of standing after a pe...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) The delayed arrival of immune cells after cancer therapy is well documented and critical for responses to chemotherapy and radiation, yet the events underlying their induct...

(Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association) The calls of new-born mice draw the attention of their mother. A group of neuronal cells in the brain stem, which coordinate exhalation and tensi...

(Brown University) When Brown University scientists took a deeper look into a classic example of parenting strategy in nature, they found that what really matters may be more than what meets the eye.

(Children's National Health System) New four-year NIH grant will enable Zhe Han, Ph.D., to carry out the latest stage in the detective work to determine how histone-modifying genes regulate heart development and the mole...

(American College of Surgeons) In a new study examining the relationship between mental health and burn injury, researchers note that burn injuries may be preventable through increased access to high-quality mental healt...

(McGill University Health Centre) Tuberculosis is a recognized hazard for healthcare workers, but the annual screening strategy currently in place in Canada and the United States is costly with very limited health benefi...

(Binghamton University) Researchers at Binghamton University have developed a new drug that may limit the progression of Parkinson's disease while providing better symptom relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of p...

(The Hastings Center) Moral implications of the 'Precision Medicine Nation,' radical life extension, artificial wombs, and more.

(Children's National Health System) Using three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging, a Children's National research team characterized the shape, volume, morphometry and texture of placentas during pregnancy and, usin...

(Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania) Does a scientific breakthrough increase confidence in science? The question is raised by a study of public attitudes about trust in science following med...

(Care New England ) Rhode Island has become the first state to pass a law explicitly requiring coverage for fertility preservation prior to gonadotoxic medical therapy, treatment that could directly or indirectly cause i...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Writing today in the journal Cancer Research, James DeGregori, Ph.D., deputy director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center offers evidence that it is forces of evol...