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(University of Texas at San Antonio) Making a bold commitment to develop groundbreaking approaches for treating brain diseases and injuries, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has assembled a world-class resea...

Product Announcement DFM 3.0 allows OEMs and their suppliers to explore bids in a neutral framework where machine types, speeds, processing sequences and optimum levels of automation ... Contributed Author: Boothroyd Dew...

Videos Researchers from the University of Connecticut are using 3D print outs to determine how to pull out blood clots from stroke victims ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Neurology

News The development of sophisticated and accurate 3-D oral scanners and new 3-D printing dental materials has also catapulted 3-D printing as a disruptive technology in dentistry ... Contributed Author: Ivar Mendez, The...

News A self-contained soft actuator three times stronger than natural muscle, without the need of externals, signals a breakthrough in soft robotics ... Contributed Author: Columbia University School of Engineering and A...

News The device is able to identify substance types by dividing a given material into segments and processing the obtained vector signal ... Contributed Author: Phys.org

(University of California - San Diego) Chronic tissue inflammation resulting from obesity is an underlying cause of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. But the mechanism by which this occurs has remained cloaked, unt...

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) Expanding the high-dose influenza vaccine recommendation to include middle-aged adults with chronic health conditions may make economic sense and save lives. The ...

(George Washington University) Community health centers all over the country could suffer catastrophic losses, resulting in site closures, job and economic losses, and a disruption in health care access for 9 million peo...

(University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center) A study led by environmental health researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine finds that children in East Liverpool, Ohio with higher levels of...

(Northeastern University) New research by a Northeastern infectious disease modeling expert has linked a person's risk of contracting Zika in the U.S. to time spent outdoors. The findings could impact how communities add...

(McGill University) McGill University researchers have discovered a mechanism through which mitochondria, the energy factory of our body's cells, play a role in preventing cells from dying when the cells are deprived of ...

(Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research) A novel psychological therapy that encourages addressing emotional experiences related to trauma, conflict and relationship problems has been found hel...

(University of Liverpool) On average overweight dogs lose an average of 11 percent of their body weight when enrolled on a weight loss trial according to researchers who have conducted the largest international multi-cen...

(Wiley) In light of ongoing concerns by the media and the public surrounding the use of mesh in women with pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence, the Pelvic Floor Society has issued a consensus statement address...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Doctors at Penn Medicine have become the first in the world to treat a patient with a new treatment platform designed to streamline the way therapeutic radiation is deliver...

(Florida State University) Findings of a new and comprehensive study from FSU College of Medicine Associate Professor Antonio Terracciano and colleagues, published today in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, has found no evide...

(University of Utah) A new study estimates employer-sponsored health plans spent at least $6 billion extra on infants born prematurely in 2013 and a substantial portion of that sum was spent on infants with major birth d...

(University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) Three researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen have received prestigious grants from the EU Innovat...

(American Academy of Sleep Medicine) A new study suggests that while healthy preterm children have more medical sleep problems than full-term children, they are more likely to fall asleep independently.

(University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) In the future diabetics might benefit from getting insulin-regulating beta cells transplanted into their body because their own beta cells are destroy...

(Boston Medical Center) Routine and rapid hepatitis C virus testing among young adults who use injection drugs improves life expectancy and may provide a good use of limited resources, according to new research out of Bo...