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(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Using fruit flies, Johns Hopkins researchers have figured out why a particular inherited human heart condition that is almost always due to genetic mutations causes the heart to enlarge, thicken ...

Potassium-rich foods such as bananas and avocados can help protect against heart disease, a study reveals. What are some other examples of food that contain high amounts of potassium?

News A group of Brazilian residents have been working at a hospital in Jacksonville, as part of the "Techniques and Technologies in Neurosurgery" program ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Neurology

News The scaffold is manufactured in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Materials Mechanics (IMWS) with the use of a unique electro-spinning process ... Contributed Author: Investment and Marketing Corporation...

News A biomedical engineer must be multilingual, as every field of science has its own lingo ... Contributed Author: Zahra Moussavi, The Conversation, Phys.org

News The idea of a tissue glue is not new: conventional glues consist primarily of fibrin ... Contributed Author: Cornelia Zogg, Phys.org Topics: Surgical

Article The process for obtaining a device clearance or premarket approval (PMA) in the United States is not the same as applying for a Shonin in Japan or a CE mark in Europe, but the challenges are similar ... Contribut...

Japanese scientists have genetically engineered hens to lay eggs that contain interferon beta, a type of protein used as treatment for malignant skin cancer and hepatitis. Here's how they did it.

California Governor Jerry Brown has now signed a bill lowering the punishment for HIV positive people who knowingly have unprotected sex with partners without telling them about their infection. Once a felony, it will so...

(Rutgers University) Rutgers scientists have found an efficient way to enhance the nutritional value of corn -- the world's largest commodity crop -- by inserting a bacterial gene that causes it to produce a key nutrient...

(SingHealth) Scientists from Singapore have mapped the complete genetic blueprint of durian, known in Asia as the 'king of fruits.'Infamous for its pungent and polarizing aroma, durian is well-known to ignite opposing pa...

(ANRS) Long-term follow-up in the ANRS TEMPRANO trial confirms that tuberculosis chemoprophylaxis in HIV-infected people is more than ever relevant in resource-limited countries.

(PLOS) Researchers successfully built a gene drive to reduce female fertility in the mosquito that spreads malaria, but mutations gradually arose that blocked the spread of the new genes. Tony Nolan of Imperial College L...

(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) A study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science investigated whether the calorie posting on menus impacts consumer evaluations of the restaurant. The study...

(Washington University School of Medicine) Scientists studying the molecular roots of Alzheimer's disease have encountered a good news/bad news scenario. The bad news is that in the early stages of the disease, high-risk...

(Goethe University Frankfurt) Learning and memory are two important functions of the brain that are based on the brain's plasticity. Scientists from Goethe University Frankfurt report in the latest issue of the scientifi...

(BMJ) A fatty diet may boost the risk of a relapse in kids with multiple sclerosis (MS) by as much as 56 per cent, with saturated fat associated with a tripling in risk, suggests research published online in the Journal ...

(Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia) The biological causes underlying obesity have been under intense scrutiny with studies suggesting a link between the nervous and the immune systems. Now, in a breakthrough study to be pu...

(Rice University) Rice and UTHealth scientists track the conformations of proteins that stand guard at transmembrane channels in the walls of nerve cells. The research could lead to refined drugs to treat neurological co...

(University of California - San Diego) An international team of researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, with colleagues at Sun Yet-sun University Cancer Center and o...

(Emory Health Sciences) Removal of a regulatory gene called LSD1 in adult mice induces changes in gene activity that that look unexpectedly like Alzheimer's. Another surprise: LSD1 is tangled up in brain samples from hum...

(University of Portsmouth) Researchers have designed a new tool designed to help GPs assess which older people are the most frail and vulnerable. Since July this year, identifying and managing patients with frailty has b...