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News The avatar first was activated by the motion sensors, allowing its movement to precisely mimic that of the test subject ... Contributed Author: University of Houston

News The heart device uses magnetic technology ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Cardiovascular

Article STAR-CCM+ software from Siemens PLM Software is used to compute the blood flow within the rotational blood pump ... Contributed Author: Kristian Debus, Director of Life Sciences, Siemens PLM Software Topics: Card...

News The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the device to clear the liver after overdoses and poisonings ... Contributed Author: University of Maryland Medical Center

News Magnetic compression anastomosis applies the force of magnetic attraction to form an anastomosis without sutures or staples ... Contributed Author: American College of Surgeons Topics: Surgical

(DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory) Biological "detectives" are tracking down biothreats such as the bacteria that causes tularemia ("rabbit fever"), but they constantly face the challenge of avoiding false positives.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report for the first time that tumors stressed by cancer immunotherapy release their mitochondrial DNA into nearby immune cells, triggering a ho...

(Deutsches Zentrum fuer Diabetesforschung DZD) In mice that are given a high-fat diet, an increased production of the enzyme DPP4* by the liver promotes an increase in body fat, the development of fatty liver disease and...

(University of California - Davis) The advent of farming, especially dairy products, had a small but significant effect on the shape of human skulls, according to a recently published study from anthropologists at UC Dav...

(University of Gothenburg) There was no weight gain, despite a higher energy intake, and insulin sensitivity was increased. These are the results from experiments on mice that had elevated levels of the protein BMP4 foll...

(University of Turku) Finnish researchers at the University of Turku have revealed that exercise-induced endorphin release in the brain depends on the intensity of the exercise. Endorphin release induced by exercise may ...

(Hong Kong Baptist University) The School of Chinese Medicine of Hong Kong Baptist University recently conducted a clinical observation on Chinese medicine treatment of chronic renal failure.

(Intermountain Medical Center) New study of 645 ARDS survivors by researchers at Intermountain Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University, and University of Utah, has identified subgroups of ARDS survivors who suffer what'...

(University of Washington) A University of Washington study finds that lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) older adults were found to be in poorer health than heterosexuals, specifically in terms of higher rates of cardiovas...

(Case Western Reserve University) Scientists have found distinctive portions of genetic material -- known as lncRNAs -- that help sperm develop. Male mice lacking a particular lncRNA have low sperm count, suggesting lncR...

(University of California - Riverside) Underground drinking water sources in parts of the US and three Asian countries may not be as safe as previously thought due to high levels of manganese, especially at shallow depth...

(University of Utah Health) Removing a single gene from the brains of mice and zebrafish causes these animals to become more anxious than normal. Researchers from University of Utah Health show that eliminating the gene ...

(Rice University) Rice University chemists have designed a plug-in metalloprotein to simplify the task of making targeted antibody therapies.

(University of Southampton) Failure to deliver complete nursing care explains why hospitals with lower registered nursing (RN) staff levels have a higher risk of patient death, a new University of Southampton study has s...

(University of Arizona Health Sciences) The center will use the money to accelerate development of a Valley fever vaccine for dogs that one day may lead to a successful human vaccine. A California-based biotech company a...

(Deutsches Zentrum fuer Diabetesforschung DZD) One in four patients in a university hospital suffers from diabetes (22 percent), and again as many suffer from prediabetes (24 percent). These were the findings of a curren...

(University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) The newly established research program, 'Programme for Translational Hematology,' has just received DKK 100 million in funding from the Novo Nordisk F...