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(University of Massachusetts Medical School) A study by Craig J. Ceol, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, has revealed a protein active during early embryo...

What happens when you stick your head inside a particle accelerator and get hit with a beam of trillions of protons? Well, if you're Anatoli Bugorski, you go on to finish your PhD. Bugorski is the only person known to ha...

Dogs are sending us an early warning signal about the spread of a potentially deadly tapeworm in North America. The tapeworm, Echinococcus multilocularis, is normally found in rodents and other wild animals, including co...

Product Announcement All overrun parts in the Meller Optics 2018 Stock Parts List meet OEM quality requirements ... Contributed Author: Meller Optics

News The researchers demonstrated the feasibility of bio-digital hybrids with a bio-digital oscillator ... Contributed Author: Institute of Science and Technology Austria

News The researchers removed the middle linking bone in the ossicular chain from three human cadavers and imaged the structures with CT ... Contributed Author: Radiological Society of North America Topics: Implantables

News The team developed the all-optical ultrasound imaging technology for use in a clinical setting over four years ... Contributed Author: University College London Topics: Cardiovascular

News The model, developed to study pediatric hydrocephalus, could prove useful in elucidating mechanisms that are relevant to other types of brain injury ... Contributed Author: Medical University of South Carolina Topic...

Earlier recommendations greenlighted administration of Sanofi's Dengvaxia in healthy individuals to prevent dengue fever. Findings of a new long-term study, however, found the dengue vaccine could pose risk to certain in...

Researchers discovered that smartphone addiction may lead to chemical imbalances in the brain, resulting in anxiety and depression, among others. For people who do not think therapy is for them, here are some things to t...

A woman could lose her eyeball because of her botched eyeball tattoo. Here are some body modification prodecures that are as risky as a scleral tattoo.

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Incidental durotomy -- small tears of the outer membrane of the spinal cord -- are a common occurrence in spinal surgery, and may lead to litigation. Most malpractice cases associated with dural t...

(Osaka University) A research group led by Osaka University found that proteins called RIFIN expressed on erythrocytes infected with Plasmodium falciparum help the parasite to suppress the host immune response, causing s...

(National Institutes of Natural Sciences) The phenomenon of collective cell migration has been observed in the process of animal development, the healing of wounds, and cancer cell invasion. Professors Kazuhiro Aoki et a...

(Washington University School of Medicine) A new study hints that even large physician practices may have trouble moving to a payment system that rewards quality of health care over quantity of services delivered. The an...

(George Washington University) If the Community Health Center Fund is not restored, millions of patients served by community health centers may lose access to crucial health care and up to 161,000 jobs could be lost in c...

(American Geriatrics Society) Disappointed by Senate passage of a tax reform proposal that could curtail critical supports for older Americans and threaten important gains securing health coverage for more Americans, exp...

(Washington State University) New research finds that frequent marijuana use seems to strengthen the relationship between pain and depression and anxiety, not ease it.

(University of Kent) Kent scientists find new cultivation system to battle parasite causing diarrhoeaA research team at the University of Kent has established the first long-term cultivation system at a laboratory scale ...

(Pensoft Publishers) Being neither mantids nor flies, the peculiar mantis-flies are in fact predatory lacewings which use their mantis-like forelegs to catch prey. While most mantis-flies are known to feed on spider eggs...

(Karolinska Institutet) A new study in EBioMedicine by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, suggests that immune response in early childhood to a handful of allerg...

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) A simple new tool that tracks cognitive performance in adults aims to help physicians identify people who may be on the path to Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia. The ...