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News Cell replacement may play an increasing role in alleviating the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) in future. Experts describe how newly developed stem cell technologies could be used to treat the disease an...

Article NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent Chris Yahnker, group supervisor for Extreme Environments Robotics, to MD&M West this year to talk about how NASA's robots are revolutionizing the way of design and manufactur...

(NIH/National Institute of Mental Health) Researchers have shown that a type of magnetic resonance imaging -- called neuromelanin-sensitive MRI (NM-MRI) -- is a potential biomarker for psychosis. NM-MRI signal was found ...

(NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) A new protocol could help emergency room physicians to rule out life-threatening bacterial infections among infants up to 2 months of ...

(McMaster University) Physicists at McMaster University have for the first time identified a simple mechanism used by potentially deadly bacteria to fend off antibiotics, a discovery which is providing new insights into ...

(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) A new breakthrough from the Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits consortium, which includes many public health researchers from the University of North Carolina at ...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) MD Anderson researchers discovered that a combination of immunotherapy and targeted therapies that block normal DNA damage repair, such as PARP inhibitors, achieved dram...

(American Heart Association) People receiving hormone therapy during gender transition had an elevated risk for cardiovascular events, such as strokes, blood clots and heart attacks.Findings underscore the importance of ...

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) A new map of newborn babies' brains offers details of structure that will provide a new reference for researchers studying both typical brain development and neurological disorders. ...

(University of Pennsylvania) Research led by University of Pennsylvania scientists offers a new look at African genetic diversity, with data from 50 populations. Among other insights, their analysis suggests that geograp...

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Specialized lung cells appear in the developing fetus much earlier than scientists previously thought. A new animal study reports how cells that become alveoli begin their specialize...

(CNRS) The bacteria responsible for tuberculosis can be killed by a toxin they produce unless it is neutralized by an antidote protein. The European team of scientists behind this discovery is coordinated by researchers ...

(JAMA Network) This study used U.S. population data to identify changes in the supply of primary care physicians across counties from 2005 to 2015 and the association with life expectancy and other outcomes. A greater su...

(University of California - Davis Health) A national research team led by UC Davis Health clinicians and researchers from the University of Michigan, Nationwide Children's Hospital and Columbia University, has derived an...

(Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center) From fathers to children, the delivery of hereditary information requires the careful packing of DNA in sperm. But just how nature packages this DNA to prepare offspring is...

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) Directly activating a gene important to exciting our excitatory neurons and associated with major depression may help turn around classic symptoms like social isolation ...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Investigating the fetal signaling pathways active in developing mice may offer future opportunities to treat lung damage caused by prematurity and other lung injuries.

(American Academy of Sleep Medicine) A new clinical practice guideline from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) provides guidance to clinicians on the use of positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy to treat obst...

(Rutgers University) Smoking more than 20 cigarettes a day can damage your vision, a study co-authored by a Rutgers researcher finds.

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) A Vanderbilt University Medical Center study in the New England Journal of Medicine is showing that using bag-mask ventilation, squeezing air from a bag into the mouth for 60 second...