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D3 Engineering, a Texas Instruments platinum design partner, announced their DesignCore RVP-TDA4Vx Development Kit with rugged ECU. The DesignCore® RVP-TDA4Vx Rugged ECU accelerates ADAS and autonomous system product de...

Secure boot, the first line of defense against security breaches in embedded systems, verifies the pre-boot authentication of system firmware using a root-of-trust service and thus safeguards code and data to prevent mal...

A 10-percent reduction in body weight improves sleep apnea symptoms, thanks to a slimmer tongue.

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found the main characteristics of loneliness in a senior housing community and the strategies residents use to o...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) Mass General Hospital recently performed the largest number of adult heart transplants in the country using what are known as Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) donor hearts.

(Yale University) Fat cells are filled with droplets coated by molecules that act like hotel doormen: These 'doormen' control cellular access for nutrients as well as for the exit of energy-supplying molecules called lip...

(Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia) The group also found that in experimental disease models that mimic the development of human obesity, loss of iRhom2 results in less fat accumulation in the body. In addition, adipose ti...

(BfR Federal Institute for Risk Assessment) Consumers can take up aluminium compounds from various sources, such as food, cosmetic products like aluminium containing antiperspirants and toothpaste, food contact materials...

(Binghamton University) Of three possible ways for people to deliver the life-saving antidote naloxone to a person experiencing an opioid overdose, the use of a nasal spray was the quickest and easiest according to resea...

(Kessler Foundation) 'The labor market's continuing strength seems to be benefiting workers with disabilities,' said John O'Neill, Ph.D., director of employment and disability research at Kessler Foundation. 'This gain i...

(Society for the Study of Addiction) A new large study of Chinese adults, published by the scientific journal Addiction, has found that eight percent of men in China are problem drinkers, and that problem drinking is mor...

(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) A new study from researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons suggests that prenatal exposure to flame retardants may increase the risk of read...

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) Very little information is known about the molecular development of leptomeningeal melanoma metastases (LMM), making it difficult to develop effective therapies. Resear...

(Boston Medical Center) Boston researchers have developed a new way to generate groups of intestinal cells that can be used, among others, to make disease models in the lab to test treatments for diseases affecting the g...

(University of Kentucky) Researchers at the University of Kentucky's College of Medicine have found that a class of antibiotics called aminoglycosides could be a promising treatment for frontotemporal dementia.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Patients who received Mohs surgery to treat the most serious form of skin cancer, melanoma, reported a 95 percent long-term satisfaction rate with their results, according to a new study ...

(University of California - San Diego) UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers have discovered how a new immune system works to protect bacteria from phages, viruses that infect bacteria -- new information that could...

(National Marine Mammal Foundation) In a groundbreaking study just published in Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound, scientists have developed a new ultrasound technique for evaluating dolphin fetuses at all stages of gest...

(InSilico Medicine) Insilico Medicine to present new results in generative biology AI at the 38th J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) Leatherback turtle eggs in the Panamanian Caribbean may be harmful to the health of consumers, due to the concentrations of trace metals found in them. Increasing awareness among...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) For the many men diagnosed with testosterone deficiency, losing weight can help increase testosterone levels. But certain diets -- specifically a low-fat diet -- may be associated with a small but...

(Technische Universität Dresden) Placing a checkmark on the to-do list is an extremely liberating feeling for many eager list lovers, especially when the task has been postponed for a long time. But what happens in our ...