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To thousands of dedicated followers on Snapchat and Instagram, he's Dr. Miami, a plastic surgeon who has made a name posting sometimes graphic videos from inside the operating room. Paired with rap music, quirky antics a...

Videos On this episode of TinkerENG, our hosts review a new home-use gadget, the Rain Rocket ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler

Product Announcement They are designed for a wide array of applications such as Blood or Laboratory Analyzers to Ozone Generators to Packaging Equipment ... Contributed Author: Gardner Denver THOMAS

News Photothermal therapy (PTT) is an emerging noninvasive treatment option in which nanomaterials are injected and accumulate in cancer cells ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: Oncology

News The researchers worked with scientists around the world to test the new device on patient samples ... Contributed Author: MIT

News The imaging technology works to create accurate 3D renderings by tracing anatomical structures throughout the entire body ... Contributed Author: Anatomage Inc. Topics: Surgical

WHO Statement on Philip Morris funded Foundation for a Smoke-Free World

A British man underwent a bronchoscopy as he was suspected to have lung cancer. The tumor, however, turned out to be a tiny plastic cone, a toy that the patient inhaled during his childhood.

An elderly woman in Houston, Texas, died of flesh-eating bacteria after she fell into contaminated floodwaters. This is the second case of flesh-eating infection related to Hurricane Harvey. What are the symptoms of necr...

(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) A new Tel Aviv University study finds a link between the duration of fever during labor and maternal complications.

(Umea University) Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden have made a novel discovery connecting highly variant types of the caries bacterium Streptococcus mutans and their adhesive function to children with rampant ca...

(PLOS) Immune system cells known as natural killer cells play an important protective role against hearing loss in mice infected with cytomegalovirus (CMV), according to a new study published in PLOS Pathogens.

(University of Illinois at Chicago) The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing has received a four-year federal grant to assist HIV-positive prisoners in Indonesia -- a southeast Asian country where the num...

(James Cook University) James Cook University scientists in Australia have come up with a winning formula for basketball teams looking to take home Olympic gold.

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) To advance innovative research in women's health, a $1M prize will be awarded to top scientists at the inaugural 9-90™ Research Summit.

(Graz University of Technology) Biomechanics from TU Graz are developing surgical screws from donated human bone material for foot and jaw surgery with surgebright, a start-up from Linz. The donated material completely h...

(University of Cambridge) The amount of antimicrobials given to animals destined for human consumption is expected to rise by a staggering 52 percent and reach 200,000 tonnes by 2030 unless policies are implemented to li...

(Osaka University) Researchers in Japan and the United States find ivermectin, a drug used to kill parasites, suppresses tumor development in epithelial ovarian cancer

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) A research team has uncovered a fundamental molecular cue that the nervous system uses to communicate with the immune system, and may potentially trigger allergic lung inflammation leading ...

(University of Arizona) New research led by neuroscientists from the University of Arizona sheds new light on the evolution of some of the earliest brain structures, and stirs up new, intriguing questions about the origi...

(University of Groningen) Research groups from the University of Groningen reveal a novel mechanism of ribosome dimerization in the bacterium Lactococcus lactis using cryo-electron microscopy. As this dimerization render...

(Howard Hughes Medical Institute) The protein behind fragile X syndrome, a leading cause of autism and intellectual disability, controls a suite of genetic regulators.