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(American College of Cardiology) A new study adds to mounting evidence that the use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), or vaping, has increased in recent years among US adults, with nearly 1 in 20 reporting current...

(Duke-NUS Medical School) Scientists and clinicians from Duke-NUS Medical School, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research's (A*STAR's) Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), and the Singapore General Hospital (SGH)...

(Children's National Hospital) Children's National Hospital researchers for the first time have isolated bacterial extracellular vesicles from the blood of healthy donors, a critical step to better understanding the way ...

With the coronavirus dictating what people can and cannot do for the short term, and many conferences cancelling or postponing, especially those in the April timeframe, healthy sensors experts should focus on what they c...

Researchers discuss the idea that bacteria, viruses or other infectious pathogens may play a role in Alzheimer's disease.

Biological engineers have created a multitissue model that lets them study the relationships between different organs and the immune system on a microfluidic chip seeded with human cells. With this 'organs-on-a-chip' mod...

Ion channels, which allow potassium and sodium ions to flow in and out of cells, are crucial in neuronal 'firing' in the central nervous system and for brain and heart function. These channels use a ''ball-and-chain'' me...

A puzzling modification of DNA that is typical in bacteria does not occur in humans or other mammals. This has been shown in a new study. The study shows that findings from the epigenetic marker 6mdA in animals are proba...

A recent study in mice led a team of researchers in Japan to believe that psychosis may be caused by problems with specialized nerve cells deep within the brain, as well as a certain kind of learning behavior. The resear...

Maggots on a dead body or wound can help pinpoint when a person or animal died, or when maltreatment began in elder, child care or animal neglect cases. However, the current process for making this determination is time ...

Experts share lessons learned from early experiences treating people with cancer during COVID-19 outbreak.

Binder USA LP introduces the Series 718 M8 female connector, a 12-contact cable connector with an overmolded, hex screw connection and companion M8 male panel mount connector with single wires. The 12 gold plated contact...

Newark, the Development Distributor, has added Rohde & Schwarz's NGP800 Series of power supplies to its portfolio. The new generation NGP800 Series is made up of five 2- and 4-channel models operating at either 400 W or ...

Listening to music can be enjoyable, but is it also good for your heart? Patients who suffered episodes of chest pain soon after a heart attack, known as early post-infarction angina, had significantly lower levels of an...

Compared with people who slept for longer or shorter periods of time, those who reported sleeping seven or eight hours a night had significantly less evidence of stiffness in their arteries, indicating a lower chance of ...

A new study suggests that people following a plant-based diet who frequently consumed less-healthful foods like sweets, refined grains and juice showed no heart health benefit compared with those who did not eat a plant-...

(American College of Cardiology) Nearly half of a cohort of female athletes at two US universities were found to have higher than normal blood pressure levels, according to research presented at the American College of C...

(American College of Cardiology) A new study, presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session Together with World Congress of Cardiology (ACC.20/WCC), suggests that giving birth to a baby unde...

(Impact Journals LLC) The cover for issue 11 of Oncotarget features Figure 6, 'Effects of AZD8186 in combination with anti-PD1 on syngeneic models,' by Owusu-Brackett, et al.In vitro cell viability assay and immunoblotti...

(National Institutes of Natural Sciences) Dr. Naoto Ueno from NIBB, Japan and Dr. Ileana Cristea from Princeton Univ. have demonstrated that physical forces, enhance cell-to-cell attachment and increase the stiffness of ...

(American College of Cardiology) Listening to music can be enjoyable, but is it also good for your heart? Patients who suffered episodes of chest pain soon after a heart attack, known as early post-infarction angina, had...

(University of Cincinnati) New research from the University of Cincinnati shows an increased rate of sudden episodes of kidney failure or damage in women who are hospitalized during pregnancy. The increased rates of acut...