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(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) In just four months, high-doses of vitamin D reduce arterial stiffness in young, overweight/obese, vitamin-deficient, but otherwise still healthy African-Americans, rese...

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News Researchers from MIT Sloan School of Management created an ambulance cart that could help villagers get to healthcare facilities ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler

News In the study, the research team used a femtosecond laser to desorb biomolecules from biological samples and a plasma jet to ionize biomolecules ... Contributed Author: DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and...

News Researchers at Nagoya University have developed a novel medical device that can efficiently capture these EVs ... Contributed Author: Nagoya University Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News The sensor designed by the Valencian researchers can detect volatile organic compounds that act as diagnostic markers ... Contributed Author: Asociacion RUVID Topics: Oncology

A Type 2 diabetes drug presented new hope in treating Alzheimer's disease. Containing three growth factors, it proved to be effective in reducing brain inflammation, and much more.

A research group developed a skin patch that regulates blood sugar level without inducing any pain. It contained an innovative formula that acts unlike any other existing treatment for Type 2 diabetes.

Climate change may cause the extinction of cacao plants, which in turn means the extinction of chocolate. But scientists are trying to prevent the catastrophe through gene editing.

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) In a direct comparison study, Johns Hopkins researchers have added to evidence that a newer method of calculating so-called 'bad cholesterol' levels in the blood is more accurate than the older m...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) With a mortality rate estimated at 10 percent, the life-threatening condition known as thyroid storm (TS) demands rapid diagnosis and treatment and can benefit from new e...

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have shown that experimental diabetes drugs can make cancer cells more vulnerable to traditional chemotherapy agents, and they say such combinatio...

(University of Pennsylvania) Boris Striepen, PhD, Professor of Pathobiology at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has received a $1.8-million, three-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Ga...

(Cornell University) Working with a simple mathematical model in which chance plays a key role, Cornell University researchers calculated how long it would take a bacterial infection or cancer cell to take over a network...

(American Thoracic Society) Every year in May researchers and clinicians in pulmonary medicine, critical care and sleep join colleagues from around the world for the ATS International Conference. Presentations include cl...

(The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice) Restasis, a blockbuster drug sold by Allergan to treat chronic dry eye, has done $8.8 billion in US sales between 2009 and 2015, including over $2.9 billion...

(Medical University of South Carolina) In a Jan. 2, 2018, article in Cell Reports, researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina report that pericytes, a little-understood cell type on the brain's blood vessels...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) The most common type of tumor found in the kidney is generally quite small (less than 1.5 in). These tumors are usually found by accident when CAT scans are performed for other reasons an...

(Rockefeller University Press) Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered how the Pacific midshipman fish can hum continuously for up to an hour in order to attract potential mates. The study, which is...

(Pharmamar) PharmaMar (MSE:PHM) has announced today a commercialization and distribution license agreement with Megapharm Ltd. for the marine-derived anticancer drug Aplidin® (plitidepsin) in Israel and the territory kn...

(Boston University School of Medicine) A new discovery of a potential biomarker for Huntington's disease (HD) could mean a more effective way of evaluating the effectiveness of treatments for this neurological disease. T...

(University of Gothenburg) If you are concerned about your health, you should also think about what your gut bacteria consume. Dietary fiber is a key source for their nutrition. Thus the quantity of fiber in your diet in...