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Part 1 of this article provided context for the critical role of David Sarnoff, development of color TV, and RCA's place in modern electronics; this part looks at the solution to the compatible color-TV challenge and the...

You may thank Formula E electric racing technology for some of the advances that ultimately make electric vehicles practical on ordinary highways. Just as automakers have sponsored racing programs to help perfect advance...

A hand-held spectrum analyzer series (Spectrum Compact) coupled with NEON Signal Mapper software delivers real-time geo-referenced signal data that can be visualized both locally by the user and remotely on a 3D display....

(Kessler Foundation) Dr. Zanca has contributed to a system for classifying rehabilitation interventions with support from NIDILRR and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. She is co-investigator for the NIDIL...

(University of North Carolina Health Care) The UNC School of Medicine has awarded the 20th Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize to Lily Jan, Ph.D., and Yuh-Nung Jan, Ph.D., both at UC San Francisco, for the 'discovery and functio...

(Society for Academic Emergency Medicine) Video discharge instructions in the emergency department are associated with less perceived acute otitis media (AOM) symptomatology compared to a paper handout.

(University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) The largest initiative to improve hospital work environments to date has officially begun, with an award of €4 million from the European Union's Horizon 2020 program. The ...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Using a targeted gene epigenome editing approach in the developing mouse brain, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers reversed one gene mutation that leads to the genetic disorder WAGR syndrome, whi...

(Salk Institute) In mouse models of Alzheimer's disease, the investigational drug candidates known as CMS121 and J147 improve memory and slow the degeneration of brain cells. Now, Salk researchers have shown how these co...

(European Research Council) The European Research Council today announced the winners of its latest Consolidator Grant competition: 301 top scientists and scholars across Europe. Funding for these researchers, part of th...

(RAND Corporation) While it's well understood what sources of income and insurance support people who experience a disability, less is known about the mechanisms of how family support changes over the evolution of a disa...

(George Mason University) George Mason University's Dr. Katherine Scafide and collaborators from Georgia State University and University of Nevada, forensic nursing units at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, and Inova Heal...

(Earlham Institute) Scientists at the Earlham Institute (EI), Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB) and the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK, have pioneered how to get very detailed transcriptomics data from gut organoid...

(IOS Press) Amsterdam, NL, December 10, 2019 - For patients with Huntington's disease (HD), clinical trials can offer hope when there are no treatments available despite unknowns about whether the therapy will work or is...

(NIH/National Cancer Institute) New findings from a clinical trial show that treatment with the immunotherapy drug blinatumomab is superior to standard chemotherapy for children and young adults with high- or intermediat...

(Boston Medical Center) A new study led by Boston Medical Center uncovered a need to improve testing rates for Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) in young people, specifically those with documented substance use history. In the nat...

(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, Ph.D., Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has discove...

(FAIR Health) From 2007 to 2018, claim lines with diagnoses of Lyme disease increased nationally 117%. The new FAIR Health Study Uncovers Geographic, Age and Gender Variation, among Other Notable Statistics. Comparing Ly...

(International Headache Society) Two medicines already used to prevent migraine in adults also showed efficacy in adolescents with migraine. Cinnarizine and Sodium Valproate were more efficacious than placebo, with large...

(University of California - San Diego) People with cystic fibrosis who carry genetic variants that lower RNF5 gene expression have more mutant CFTR protein on cell surfaces. Even if the CFTR protein isn't fully functiona...

(Brown University) A major grant from the Alzheimer's Association will enable researchers to test a drug that could reduce brain inflammation in Alzheimer's patients and possibly slow the progression of the disease.

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Aging adults are more likely to have - and die from - cardiovascular disease than their younger counterparts. New basic science research finds reason to link biological aging ...