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Hot flashes -- sudden rushes of overwhelming warmth that heat up the body like a roaring furnace - plague millions of women, and some men. Now scientists find a single type of brain cell is responsible for setting off th...

Videos In this episode of TinkerEng, Don Kralik, a mechanical engineer with Mars International, take a look at Rob Haviland's ladder alert system and provides feedback on the prototype, as well as next steps in productio...

News Wearable mobile health devices improved the rate of diagnosis of a dangerous and often hidden heart condition called atrial fibrillation (AFib), according to a first of its kind, home-based clinical study conducted ...

Article Many emergency services, who need access to a broad range of internet-based communications services the most, are still using old-fashioned, telecommunications technology. This is the gap the EMYNOS project sough...

News Researchers have laid out an AI system for predicting potential side effects from drug combinations. The system, called Decagon, could help doctors make better decisions about which drugs to describe and find better...

News A team led of researchers has developed a chip that can detect a type of genetic mutation known as a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and send the results in real time to a smartphone, computer, or other electro...

(American Chemical Society) In the six years since its inception, CRISPR gene editing has experienced ups and downs, from giddy excitement over the technology's potential to cure genetic diseases to patent disputes, ethi...

(Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) Majority of infants with food-induced anaphylaxis present with hives and vomiting, suggesting there is less concern for life-threatening response to early food intro...

(Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)) Scientists headed by ICREA researcher Angel R. Nebreda at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) report a new mechanism that contributes to the d...

(San Francisco State University) Heart health and gut health may be linked. A new study by San Francisco State University researchers finds that people with better cardiovascular fitness have more of a certain type of ba...

(Michigan State University) Support from female co-workers may be even more important to new moms who are breastfeeding than getting encouragement from their significant others, close friends and relatives, says a new st...

(Deutsches Zentrum fuer Diabetesforschung DZD) Breathlessness and conditions of restrictive lung disease (RLD), such as pulmonary fibrosis, may be a late complication of type 2 diabetes. These are the key findings of a j...

(McGill University) A recent study in NeuroImage demonstrates that exercise performed immediately after practicing a new motor skill improves its long-term retention. More specifically, the research shows, for the first ...

(American College of Physicians) In a new policy issued today, the American College of Physicians (ACP) stated that immigrant families who have been separated at the border should be reunited as expeditiously as possible...

(Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research) Ludwig Cancer Research and the Cancer Research Institute (CRI) announce the initiation of a clinical trial to evaluate the combination of ONCOS-102, an experimental anti-tumor virot...

(University of Zurich) A new approach established at the University of Zurich sheds light on the effects of anti-cancer drugs and the defense mechanisms of cancer cells. The method makes it possible to quickly test vario...

(Springer) The numerous high-profile men who have recently been accused of sexual harassment may not have been simply exercising their power. Instead their behavior could be related to feeling insecure and believing that...

(Drexel University) A study designed to demystify the way research gets into legislators' hands found that the majority don't look to universities to inform their behavioral health policies.

(American Heart Association) Approximately 75 percent of black men and women develop high blood pressure by age 55 compared to 55 percent of white men and 40 percent of white women of the same age. Both black and white s...

(Burness) Aeras, a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing vaccines against tuberculosis (TB), today announced the publication of the full results from a Phase 2, randomized, controlled clinical trial of two TB va...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Virus-like particles (VLPs) are protein-based structures that mimic viruses and bind to antibodies. Because VLPs aren't infectious, they show promise as vaccine...

(Kyoto University) Researchers find that a key circadian clock controlling kinase, CK1D -- controlling the stability of PER2 -- has two forms, one that stabilizes PER2 and one that destabilizes it.