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Videos Roaming the vast show floor at MD&M West can be exhausting, so I was very grateful to discover that Kuka and Kawasaki had decided to demonstrate their machines' dexterity and material handling capabilities by........

Videos Roaming the vast show floor at MD&D can be exhausting, so I was very grateful to discover that Kuka and Kawasaki had decided demonstrate their machines' dexterity and material handling capabilities by......

Videos Roaming the vast show floor at MD&M West can be exhausting, so I was very grateful to discover that Kuka and Kawasaki had decided to demonstrate their machines' dexterity and material handling capabilities by........

Industry Brief Using nuclear medicine, German researchers have found a way to accurately differentiate cancerous tissue from healthy tissue in prostate cancer patients. The research is highlighted in the February issue o...

News For the first time, researchers have fabricated sensing elements known as fiber Bragg gratings inside optical fibers designed to dissolve completely inside the body. The bioresorbable fiber Bragg gratings could be u...

Can't fall asleep at night? People with insomnia have a hard time falling asleep at night. A sleep expert shares reasons you can't fall asleep at night.

News Minnesota Rubber and Plastics will be showcase its Qmonix® Elastomer 912T, a USP Class VI certified high-dielectric material for bio-compatible applications, at this year's MDM West. The company will also exhibit i...

News Two families of ultra-miniature peelable heat shrink tubing (PHST) products announced today by Junkosha are aimed at helping make tools for micro-surgical procedures safer, more precise, and......

A 56-year-old man from the United Kingdom once drank 25 cans of Red Bull and Monster energy drinks over a six-hour period. Later that night, he was rushed to the hospital, where he was found to have a brain hemorrhage.

Smoking, stress, and high levels of blood sugar can cause heart attacks and strokes. Here's our guide on how to prevent these occurrences and lead a healthy lifestyle.

If you have a special someone, your weight loss could affect their fitness as well. A new study suggests that when one member of a couple commits to losing weight, their partner also sheds some pounds.

(Anglia Ruskin University) People with diabetes are twice as likely to develop cataract as the general population and the relative risk is highest in those aged between 45 and 54, according to a new study published in th...

(Children's National Health System) Monitoring and treating de novo donor-specific antibodies before they could cause graft damage helped to decrease dnDSA in a majority of pediatric kidney transplant recipients at Child...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) In 2011, Medicare introduced the annual wellness visit -- a yearly check-up for Medicare beneficiaries at no cost to the patient -- but many practices have been slow to offer the visits. A ...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) Cellular models of fetal and adult intestinal tissues generated by investigators from MassGeneral Hospital for Children have identified differences in the immune response to natural intes...

(Forschungsverbund Berlin) Tiny plastic particles also present a threat to creatures on land and may have damaging effects similar or even more problematic than in our oceans. Researchers from the Leibniz-Institute of Fr...

(American Roentgen Ray Society) The American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) will host leading radiologists from around the world at the ARRS 2018 Annual Meeting, April 22-27 in Washington, DC.

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) Moffitt Cancer Center researchers are trying to identify new drug targets to reduce the risk of GVHD. Their new study, published last week in the Proceedings of the Nat...

(Ohio State University) A woman's memories of a loved one's experience with cancer could play a significant role in how she approaches breast cancer prevention in her own life, a new study has found.

(University of California - San Francisco) An international team of researchers has shown that two different compounds-one, an older malaria drug, the other a common laboratory dye with known antimalarial properties-can ...

(Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) New research published today in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, suggests the effectiveness of large-scale distribution of medication (known as Mass Drug Administration or MDA) to t...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) After years of investigation, researchers at Johns Hopkins, the University of California, Davis, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have discovered how the immune syste...