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News Michael Goldfarb has now developed the world's first easily portable, wearable robot--the Indego exoskeleton. The prosthetic ankle is intelligent, and individuals can wear a dress shoe, running shoe or flat, while t...

Article In order to better assess the biomechanics behind overuse injuries, James Onate and Mike McNally designed a device that monitors a player's movements to analyze their pitching posture... Staff Author: Tierney Kin...

News Researchers have developed an oral delivery method that could transform the way in which diabetics keep their blood sugar levels in check. The key to the new approach is to carry insulin in an ionic liquid comprised...

News Leadless pacemakers do not need wires, and a recenty study found fewer short-term and mid-term complications in patients receiving these pacemakers. The small self-contained devices are placed directly into the hear...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Nursing mothers who live with two or more smokers are more likely to stop breastfeeding sooner than those who live in nonsmoking households.

(Elsevier) High risk, frail heart patients might derive benefits from 'prehabilitation,' a strategy designed to enhance the recovery process after heart surgery by maintaining or improving the patient's overall physical ...

(Imperial College London) A human virus that causes a rare form of leukaemia increases the risk of disease by changing the way DNA loops inside our cells.

(University of Guelph) Overload training -- or, training to exhaustion followed by a period or rest and recovery before a race -- is a method used by many endurance athletes in search of a personal best. A new University...

(Rice University) Scientists at Rice University, Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine have won a prestigious National Institutes of Health grant to study the processes involved in discrete subaortic s...

(RIKEN) Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science have discovered a circuit in the brain that is necessary for unlearning fear. Published in Nature Communications, the study details the role of dopamine in ensuri...

(University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center) A new technique of post-less distraction of the hip joint lessens complications of hip arthroscopy.

(World Scientific) 'Water Is... The Indispensability of Water in Society and Life' explores the ways-big and small-that water rules the world. It provides a holistic perspective on water, capturing the full breadth of th...

(Morgridge Institute for Research) Two new Morgridge Institute for Research studies suggest the current tests, which measure the abundance of lipid classes, are insufficient. Rather, lipids identified and studied at the ...

(George Mason University) Andrew Peterson is a Mason philosophy professor who recently received an award in bioethics from the Greenwall Foundation that will allow him to investigate ethical and policy issues associated ...

(NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) Young women with high body fat have a decreased chance of developing breast cancer before menopause, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health ...

(IDIBELL-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) New combined treatment shows promise in Hepatocellular Carcinoma. A combination of mTOR inhibitors and Phenformin leads to an increase in overall survival.

(Loyola University Health System) A new study published in Nature Communications has found that the female bladder not only contains bacteria, but the microbes are similar to those found in the vagina. The finding could ...

(Monell Chemical Senses Center) The Monell Center, in partnership with the University of Florida Center for Smell and Taste and the Rocky Mountain Taste and Smell Center at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, ...

(Edelman Seattle) A new epidemiological study representing more than 34,000 American adults suggests that those who consume walnuts may have about half the risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared to adults who do not...

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) Trauma to both mother and baby during vaginal deliveries, especially forceps deliveries, has increased in Canada in recent years, according to a large study published in CMAJ (Canad...

(DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) A plant's health is affected not only by conditions such as water and temperature, but by the microorganisms that live around its roots. This rhizosphere microbiome regulates n...