Medical News

(Oregon State University) A type of soil-dwelling bacterium produces molecules that induce death in melanoma cells, research at Oregon State University shows.

(ecancermedicalscience) Research published this week in ecancermedicalscience may provide the motivation needed to stick with your New Year's resolutions for healthy living. Researchers led by Professor Peter Elwood of C...

(Wiley) A new Birth analysis has uncovered dramatic increases in the rates of maternal mortality -- the death of a mother during pregnancy, childbirth, or post-partum -- in Texas in recent years. There was an 87 percent ...

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News Researchers have designed cancer cell models to help predict the outcomes for patients ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Oncology

News A hybrid meta-biomaterial that promotes bone growth is not something you will find in nature ... Contributed Author: California Institute of Technology Topics: Implantables

News In the paper, LLNL researchers describe cracking the code on resist materials optimized for two-photon lithography ... Contributed Author: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

News The machines move using a motor called a bimorph ... Contributed Author: Cornell University

News The team investigated the spider's photonic structures using techniques that included light and electron microscopy, hyperspectral imaging ... Contributed Author: University of Akron

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) lifted the ban preventing the project of creating super viruses from being funded. Superviruses are now free to be modified.

Luxturna, a drug for gene therapy to cure inherent blindness that was recently approved by the FDA, will cost $850,000. Does the prohibitive cost outweigh the advantages of a one-time treatment to cure a hereditary disea...

Silicon Valley was hooked by another health craze called raw water. Live Water, the company that markets the product, claimed it is the key to balancing good gut bacteria.

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Overweight children are less accurate in estimating their own body size than normal weight children. And the bigger their body size, the more inaccurate their guesses.

(American Geriatrics Society) Over a three-year period, researchers from the United Kingdom examined the relationship between poor oral health and older adults' risks for becoming frail. They published their findings in ...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have used precision editing of the bacterial populations in the gut to prevent or reduce the severity of inflammation in a mouse model of coliti...

(Boston University School of Medicine) An international team of researchers has developed a novel compound that successfully inhibits growth of melanoma cells by targeting specific epigenetic modifying proteins in these ...

(Rockefeller University Press) A team of researchers in Italy and Austria has determined that a drug approved to treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) may be less effective in a particular subset of patients. The stud...

(Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging) The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) has published appropriate use criteria (AUC) for somatostatin receptor PET imaging in neuroendocrine tumor...

(Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown) Motor behavior could be formed from a range of continuous possible movements. But it could also be constituted by sequences of distinct, discrete movement types. New results suggest ...

(Wiley) In a study that investigated the association between allergic diseases and ophthalmologic diseases in 14,776 adults, asthma and allergic rhinitis were each associated with a 50 percent increased likelihood of hav...

(Instituto de Medicina Molecular) An international study from the Instituto de Medicina Molecular shows one of Africa's most lethal diseases is actually a circadian rhythm disorder caused by the acceleration of biologica...

(University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) Given the ever-increasing obesity epidemic, researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have discovered a promising developing drug that has been...