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(Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center) Eating walnuts may help slow cognitive decline in at-risk groups of the elderly population, according to a study conducted by researchers in California and Spain.

Mixing drinking water with chlorine, the United States' most common method of disinfecting drinking water, creates previously unidentified toxic byproducts.

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A new approach that uses artificial intelligence to analyze retinal images could one day help doctors select the best treatment for patients with vision loss from diabetic macular edema. This diabetes complication is a m...

Scientists have invented a nanoparticle that eats away -- from the inside out -- portions of plaques that cause heart attacks.

Administration of zinc acetate lozenges to common cold patients did not shorten colds in a randomized trial.

Researchers have mapped how different nerve cells in the brain area striatum process information to plan and execute our movements at just the right time and with the right vigor. The results show that different cell typ...

'Under-representation of Asian populations in genetic studies has meant that medical relevance for more than half of the human population is reduced,' one researcher said.

A pair of biomarkers of brain function -- one that represents 'listening effort,' and another that measures ability to process rapid changes in frequencies -- may help to explain why a person with normal hearing may stru...

Researchers have developed an unrivaled, fully automated robotic screening system which allows them to rapidly test the effect of drugs and other chemicals on human sperm. The researchers are working towards finding a sa...

Functional safety, a critical requirement in automotive applications, addresses catastrophic failures from data corruption by attaining Automotive Safety Integrity Levels (ASILs) as per ISO 26262 standard. Contrary to th...

The bits that travel over wireless networks also travel over wired networks, ultimately over cables and PCB traces as serial data streams such as Ethernet, PCIe, and others. All serial data transmissions must contend wit...

(Anglia Ruskin University) New research shows that exercise addiction is nearly four times more common amongst people with an eating disorder.

(Queensland University of Technology) Is it possible to create a truly bushfire-resistant house? What's the best way to donate to bushfires? How can you tell fact from fake news in this era of Twitter bots? How can we im...

(University of California - San Diego) University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers created a new type of brain cancer model for glioblastoma using stem cells, CRISPR and gene sequencing.

(University of Montreal) In the human body, cells shield themselves from disease-causing microbes by scrambling their lipids into liquids, according to new research by an international team headed by the Montreal Clinica...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Compounds based on palladium, a metal belonging to the same group as platinum, have been developed by researchers from Brazil, the UK and Italy. In vitro tests show...

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) High levels of protein in a patient's urine shortly after an episode of acute kidney injury is associated with increased risk of kidney disease progression, providing a valuable too...

(University of Otago) People who cycle to work have a lower risk of dying, a New Zealand study has found. The study, by researchers from the University of Otago, Wellington, the University of Melbourne and the University...

(Queen Mary University of London) The role of primary care needs to be improved to help young stroke survivors return to work, according to a new study from Queen Mary University of London and the University of Cambridge...

(Florida Atlantic University) Researchers examined racial and ethnic differences in genetic testing frequency and results among diverse breast cancer patients diagnosed at age 50 or younger from January 2007 to December ...

(Stand Up To Cancer) Stand Up To Cancer has awarded the $250,000 2020 Laura Ziskin Prize in Translational Research to Dr. Leisha A. Emens, MD, PhD (UPMC Hillman Cancer Center) and Dr. Xiang Zhang, PhD (Baylor College of ...