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The human genome is composed of some 3 billion base pairs, the individual molecules that compose our DNA. A mutation to just a single base pair can have dramatic consequences if it occurs in certain locations. Cystic fib...

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News The batteries provide energy to turn the near-infrared LEDs on and off, depending on how they are programmed by a dentist ... Contributed Author: King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)

News Tannin extracts play an important role in developing composite materials for 3D printing ... Contributed Author: Swiss National Science Foundation

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The need to urinate more often than usual is a potential symptom of ovarian cancer, but only 1 percent of women are aware of this warning sign. What are the other signs of the disease?

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the bill that bans the use of e-cigarettes in places where smoking tobacco products is prohibited. The new law will take effect in 30 days.

(Children's National Health System) Continuously recording the brain's electrical signals and examining how those impulses evolve over time is a more reliable way to identify infants at risk for brain injury, compared wi...

(University of Vienna) Women who live with their own mother or their mother in law in the same household have, on average, fewer children than women who only live with their spouse. Martin Fieder and colleagues, evolutio...

(American Chemical Society) A new class of drugs for blood cancers such as leukemia and multiple myeloma is showing promise. But it is hobbled by a problem that also plagues other cancer drugs: targeted cells can develop...

(Stellenbosch University) The dangers of pseudoscience and quackery in healthcare will come under scrutiny later this year at a ground-breaking international summit in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Numerous high-profile he...

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) In the decade after the 1992 Earth Summit, at least $14 billion was devoted to biodiversity conservation around the globe. According t...

(Brown University) New research finds that while many Rhode Island young adults who use opioids get screened for hepatitis C, they aren't always connected to care for an infection if one is detected.

(Elsevier) When Medicare beneficiaries are admitted to the hospital, their care is normally covered by Part A benefits with a fixed deductible. However, when the hospital stay is "for observation," Part B benefits take o...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) A Massachusetts General Hospital research team has found a surprising potential solution to a persistent clinical problem -- the healing of chronic wounds. The researchers report that app...

(Society for Academic Emergency Medicine) Haloperidol is an effective first-line agent in combination with standard analgesic and antiemetic agents for the treatment of gastroparesis in the emergency department.

(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) Researchers at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have developed a promising technique that will facilitate the differentiation of stem cell...

(Brown University) With a $3.6 million award from the US Department of Defense researchers in Rhode Island and Alabama will study whether a form of cognitive behavior therapy could be effective in reducing seizure freque...

(University of Veterinary Medicine -- Vienna) Decoding Y chromosomes is difficult even with latest sequencing technologies. The question which genes lie on the chromosome and where they came from is hotly debated. Using ...

(Lund University) A risk assessment system developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden shows which patients, with a certain type of streptococcal bacteria in the blood, need to be examined for a heart valve inf...

(American College of Surgeons) A research team from Texas Tech University Health Sciences, Odessa, Texas, has developed a novel methodology to reduce rural area surgical costs, improve quality of care, and increase reven...