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The brain is an enormously complex thing. Trying to suss out the genetic overlap of the disorders that strike it is perhaps even more complicated. Still, the Brainstorm Consortium, a collaboration of researchers from Har...

News Researchers designed an application that measures various patient parameters such as temperature, blood pressure and heart rate to recommend insulin doses and adapt the therapy on an individual basis... Contributed ...

Videos The GrowMeUp project is aimed at providing affordable robotic technology to one-fifth of Europe's population, the elderly. Named GrowMu, the robot continues to develop intellectually as it provides support... Staf...

News Researchers have devised a new fundus camera small enough to fit on a smartphone that allows people to know that status of their health from the fundus image... Contributed Author: NARA Institute of Science and Tech...

News Purdue University researchers have developed soft contact lenses that not only correct vision but also can monitor glucose and medical conditions and be used for ocular pain relief or drug delivery... Contributed Au...

News A HKU Mechanical Engineering team led by Dr. Kwok Ka-wai recently designed the first neurosurgical robotic system capable of performing bilateral stereotactic neurosurgery inside a magnetic resonance imaging ("MRI")...

(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) A team of researchers at Sanofi and Mainz University finds no positive action of isomers of the fatty acid derivatives 5- and 9-PAHSA in diabetes models.

(New York University) Bisexual men have a higher risk for heart disease compared with heterosexual men across several modifiable risk factors, finds a new study published online in the journal LGBT Health.

(University of Delaware) A pioneering technique developed to analyze genetic activity of Antarctic worms is helping to predict cerebral palsy. The technique uses next-generation genetic sequencing data to measure how cel...

(ETH Zurich) Researchers from ETH Zurich and EPFL have discovered a new type of fat cell that suppresses the growth of new fat cells. This opens up new avenues for preventing obesity-related diseases.

(University of Miami) The first comprehensive study comparing the outcomes of robotic surgery to those of traditional open surgery in any organ has found that the surgeries are equally effective in treating bladder cance...

(Sainsbury Wellcome Centre) How does your brain decide what to do in a threatening situation? A new paper published in Nature describes a mechanism by which the brain classifies the level of a threat and decides when to ...

(The Gerontological Society of America) The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and the Organization for Associate Degree Nursing (OADN) are collaborating in a new partnership with the goal of sharing education and t...

(UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center) An analysis co-led led by a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher linked higher body mass index, or BMI, to lower breast cancer risk for younger women, even fo...

(Wiley) How can elimination of therapeutics from the bloodstream or their early enzymatic degradation be avoided in systemic delivery? Chinese scientists have new developed a method to bind an established cancer therapeu...

(Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) A discovery about how human cells are 'triggered' to undergo an inflammatory type of cell death could have implications for treating cancer, stroke and tissue injury, and immune disorder...

(University of Illinois at Chicago) Researchers led by Mark Rasenick in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, describe the molecular mechanisms behind ketamine's ability to squash depression and keep...

(PadillaCRT) Major immunization gaps among older adults of racial and ethnic groups was the core of an expert roundtable comprised of various health care system leaders. The experts convened to specifically address laggi...

(American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology) A new study shows in an emergency, 52 percent of adults with potentially life-threatening allergies didn't use the epinephrine auto-injectors (EAI) they were prescrib...

(Penn State) Taking a walk may be a good opportunity to mentally review your to-do list, but using the time to instead be more mindful of your breathing and surroundings may help boost your wellbeing, according to resear...

(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) Investigators have identified a new cellular pathway that may help explain how arterial inflammation develops into atherosclerosis -- deposits of cholesterol, fats and other substances that ...

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) Oxidative stress can help tumors thrive, but one way novel cancer treatments work is by pushing levels to the point where it instead helps them die, scientists report.