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News The group's project involves ultrasonic distance sensors and miniature vibrating motors mounted on a headband, plus some prototype electronics stored in a waistpack ... Contributed Author: Nathan Collins

News It can be used to test chemical and pharmaceutical drugs without using a human or animal ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler

News The team found that higher oxygen concentrations slow down the cross-linking of chemicals in the hydrogel, inhibiting growth in that specific area ... Contributed Author: Nanyang Technological University

News Studies using motion sensors and AI software have revealed expert bricklayers use previously unidentified techniques to limit the loads on their joints ... Contributed Author: University of Waterloo

News The Rice team's microfluidics-based technique promises to improve therapies that rely on electrodes to sense neuronal signals ... Contributed Author: Rice University

There might be a way to prevent humans from acting on their impulsive behaviors. Stanford researchers want to implant devices on human brains to 'zap' them whenever they'll do anything impulsive.

A review of four findings indicated that dementia cannot be prevented by following a healthy diet, training the brain, taking vitamins, or exercising regularly. The research was conducted by a team from Minnesota.

(University of California - San Francisco) UC San Francisco physician-scientists have developed a test that can predict how patients with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) will respond to treatment, and may also be...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) In a historic move, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved a gene therapy initially developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Childre...

(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Imagine you're walking down a busy street like Times Square in New York. There are tons of people around. As you make your way through the crowd, your brain notices several faces but ...

(University of Montreal) A study in The Journal of Pediatrics by researchers at Université de Montréal reveals that sexual assaults on children leads to an increase in genitourinary health problems in girls but not in ...

(University of Delaware) A University of Delaware professor has received a Scientist Development Grant from the American Heart Association to investigate the impact of a low energy dense diet in children. This type of di...

(Drexel University) A new study suggests that the extent to which brain signals 'stick' to white matter networks is associated with cognitive flexibility, or our ability to switch our focus from one concept to another.

(University of Pennsylvania) Adolescents who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or questioning are much more likely to consider, plan or attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers, according to research from the Unive...

(University of Stirling) A child's attention and memory improves after exercise according to new research conducted by primary school pupils and supported by the Universities of Stirling and Edinburgh.

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) While cigarette smoking has declined in the US for the past several decades, since 2002 the prevalence of smoking has increased significantly among people with an i...

(Lobachevsky University) Researchers of the Lobachevsky University, Institute of Biology and Biomedicine (IBBM) have established as a result of laboratory tests that bee venom and bee products inhibit the growth of malig...

(Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research) Many cancer cells are relatively sensitive to the deprivation of an essential amino acid known as methionine. Now, a Ludwig Cancer Research study published in the journal Science Si...

(George Washington University) There are major measurement issues in patient experience data collected from US emergency departments, including high variability and limited construct validity, according to an analysis pu...

(IDIBELL-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) new study carried out by IDIBELL and ISGlobal associates for the first time mild obsessive-compulsive symptoms to characteristics and specific alterations of the cerebral...

(University of Bonn) When the immune system mobilizes its troops, antigen-presenting cells play an important role. They can emerge from white blood cells (monocytes) that circulate in the blood. An international research...

(NIH/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders) Cisplatin is retained in the cochlea indefinitely following chemotherapy.