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News The developers hope this device helps to put an end to the sale of street drugs ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler

News Key to this new imaging paradigm is a 3-D-printed device that holds a tube attached to a small motor and sits on the stage of an upright microscope ... Contributed Author: Silke Schmidt, Phys.org

News Brain-machine interfaces now treat neurological disease and change the way people with paralysis interact with the world. Improving those devices depends on getting better at translating the language of the brain .....

News A powerful X-ray tomography scanner allowed the researchers to image particularly thick sections of the brains of mice ... Contributed Author: Georgia Institute of Technology Topics: Neurology

News The result is a device that can be used as a pressure sensor, proving that the process can create working devices ... Contributed Author: Ken Kingery, Duke University

A new study revealed that working out for too many hours a week increases the risk of coronary artery calcification, which is a warning for possible heart disease. Interestingly, the trend was only seen among white men.

Men are more likely to die when they receive blood from a woman who had been previously pregnant, says a new study. This could ultimately alter blood donation policies in the global scale if future studies support the co...

Suspected cases from Seychelles test negative for plague

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Brazilian scientists found that addicts who began using cocaine before and after the age of 18 showed differences in sustained attention and working memory, among o...

(University of Bonn) Novel immunotherapies can strengthen the body's own defenses against cancer cells. Treatment of patients with advanced disease can promote partial and complete tumor regressions. However, such strate...

(American Academy of Ophthalmology) Children who are considered to be at risk of developing eye cancer should receive genetic counseling and testing as soon as possible to clarify risk for the disease. This is the consen...

(University College London) The gentle touch of another individual soothes the effects of social exclusion, one of the most emotionally painful human experiences, according to new UCL research.

(Wiley) For individuals experiencing a heart attack, delays in getting to the hospital can have life-threatening consequences.

(Virginia Tech) Blood samples taken by first responders showed that individuals exposed to small amounts of oil from the spill suffered from hemolytic anemia--a condition that occurs when toxins enter the blood stream an...

(American Society of Agronomy) Living mulch functions like mulch on any farm or garden except -- it's alive. No, it's not out of the latest horror movie; living mulch is a system farmers can use to benefit both profits a...

(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) MRI study analyzes stress-processing brain regions in older city dwellers.

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) A targeted therapy resurrected by the Moon Shots Program™ at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has produced unprecedented response rates among patients...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) A new study on two specially bred strains of mice has illuminated how abnormal addition of the chemical phosphate to a specific heart muscle protein may sabotage the way the protein behaves in a ...

(Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf) A scientific collaboration between stem cell researchers of the Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany, led by Prof. Patrick Küry (Neurology) and by Prof. James Adjaye (St...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) A study led by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Diane Spatz, Ph.D., RN-BC, FAAN, the Helen M. Shearer Term Professor of Nutrition, has found that delayed l...

(Sanford-Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute) A new study led by researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) identifies potential new therapeutic avenues for patients with Alagille synd...

(Cornell University) Melanoma, a cancer of skin pigment cells called melanocytes, will strike an estimated 87,110 people in the US in 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A fraction of those...