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Product Announcement This 35mm linear stepper motor offers a design for applications demanding high linear force ... Contributed Author: Portescap

News The material is biocompatible--meaning it doesn't affect or harm living tissue--is safe to use, and maintains the intestine-like structure for months ... Contributed Author: Taylor McNeil, Tufts University

News DNA brick technology is based on the stable and highly programmable nature of DNA ... Contributed Author: Wyss Institute

News The startup developed a jet-injection device that delivers a rapid, high-pressure stream of medicine, as thin as a strand of hair ... Contributed Author: Rob Matheson, MIT News Office

Videos This bionic arm is a step closer to Luke Skywalker's ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Prosthetics

News Hung says that future studies will explore how the recorded performance data compares to clinical outcomes ... Contributed Author: University of Southern California - Health Sciences

Men with many older brothers have a higher chance of becoming gay. A study has explained how certain maternal antibodies, produced in women pregnant with boys, increase with more male children one has.

(University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) ) Canadian researchers identify a promising avenue for improving treatments for people with cystic fibrosis. They found that adding molecules called quorum-sensin...

(University of California - Berkeley) A new law took effect in California last year allowing pharmacists to prescribe birth control, but few of the state's pharmacies are actually offering this service, according to new ...

(Kanazawa University) Although the folded surface (the gyrus) of the cerebral cortex is believed to be important for higher brain functions, research on the gyrus has been much retarded since the mouse, a widely used mod...

(Kumamoto University) HIV-1 regulation by the HLA-B*52:01 allele has been established for some time. However, evidence of regulation by its companion, the HLA-C*12:02 allele, has been difficult to produce due to the stro...

(Osaka University) A new study by researchers at the Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine reports which epigenetic factors in certain chromosomes that make one twin more at risk for autoimmune thyroid diseases.

(Baylor College of Medicine) Tyrosine 78 in Atoh1 is phosphorylated exclusively in 'tumor-initiating cells' in sonic hedgehog medulloblastoma and reducing the levels of Atoh1 promotes tumor regression in mice and provide...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Michigan Medicine is among the first recipients to receive the Antimicrobial Stewardship Centers of Excellence designation from the Infectious Diseases Society of America. The...

(Elsevier) Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, today announced the publication of the most reputable and easily searchable cardiovascular-focused basic and translational refer...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) A centralized chronic disease management program produced significant improvements in the care of patients with diabetes, hypertension or cardiovascular disease treated at practices in th...

(Rockefeller University) A protein transferred from male to female mosquitoes during sex influences female mating behavior -- a phenomenon that could be exploited to limit the spread of mosquito-borne illnesses like Zika...

(Instituto de Medicina Molecular) Portuguese researchers have found a mechanism through which certain types of leukaemia resist chemotherapy, revealing novel molecular targets to improve this therapy's efficiency.

(Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute) The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors approved a new PCORI Funding Announcement (PFA) that makes up to $40 million available for compar...

(University of Surrey) An innovative new study from the University of Surrey and Cambridge's MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications, has uncovered the secrets of t...

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Different types of privacy laws in US states produce markedly different effects on the willingness of patients to have genetic testing done, according to a new study co-authored by...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) An analysis of 16 audiotaped conversations between parents of infants in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and clinicians found that medical staff routinely downplay quality of life issues an...