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(Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth) A team of researchers from Dartmouth has been awarded nearly $225,000 from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to develop an...

(AlphaMed Press) A phase 2 clinical trial whose results were released in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine might point to a way to overcome bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), a major cause of death in preterm infants.

(Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute) Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys have identified, at an atomic level, how a part of a protein called PLEKHA7 interacts with a cell's membrane to regulate important...

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(St. Petersburg State University) The coenocytes, i.e. large multinucleate cell structures, originate via nuclear multiplication and cytoplasmic growth among the cells surrounding the early embryo. Interestingly, the coe...

(American Roentgen Ray Society) An award-winning Scientific Electronic Exhibit to be presented at the ARRS 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting found no statistically significant threshold for increased renal transplant biopsy ri...

(Texas A&M University) With roughly 80% of jobs being sedentary, often requiring several hours of sitting stooped in front of a computer screen, neck pain is a growing occupational hazard. Smartphones and other devices h...

(University of South Florida (USF Health)) A new University of South Florida Health (USF Health) study suggests that disruption of chaperone proteins in the aging brain may tip the balance to promote toxic tau accumulati...

(American Roentgen Ray Society) An award-winning Scientific Electronic Exhibit to be presented at the ARRS 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting found non-contrast pituitary MRI for central precocious puberty, growth hormone defic...

(Oregon State University) Policies designed to prevent the misuse of opioids may have the unintended side effect of limiting access to the pain-relieving drugs by terminally ill patients nearing the end of their life, ne...

(LaGuardia Community College) On Earth Day, Thursday, April 22, 2021, LaGuardia Community College will host the first-ever CUNY Conf. on Climate Change Education. Renowned environmental activist, author, and founder of 3...

(Experimental Biology) Embargoed press materials are now available for the virtual Experimental Biology (EB) 2021 meeting, featuring cutting-edge multidisciplinary research from across the life sciences. EB 2021, to be h...

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) Researchers have found a causal link between caesarean section birth, low intestinal microbiota and peanut sensitivity in infants, and they report the effect is mor...

(University of Virginia Health System) Recent growth in the number of healthcare workers providing home care for Medicare patients is "small and inadequate" compared with the increasing demand in an aging America, a new ...

(Frontiers) COVID-19 can enter the body via the lungs and gut, and a new study suggests the gut's immune response alone may not provide adequate whole-body immunity from the virus. Blood samples analyzed from COVID-19 pa...

(Hospital for Special Surgery) A hand surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery performed the first surgery with an FDA-cleared total wrist replacement implant he designed.

(University of Washington) The federal government, in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, could learn from how the nation responded to Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 and the H1N1 swine flu, a new study found.

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) A new study identified clear strengths and a series of specific challenges autistic adolescents experience while learning to drive.

(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) Researchers have discovered how the blood plasma protein fetuin-B binds to the enzyme meprin β and used a computer model to visualize their findings. These results could lead to t...

(NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)) The NIH has launched a phase 3 clinical trial to examine the use of prescription and over-the-counter medications for people with mild-to-moderate COVID-...

(Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) People who regularly use psychoactive substances report experiencing a variety of negative impacts since the COVID-19 pandemic began, including increased usage and fear of relapse...

(University of California - Davis Health) The UC Davis MIND Institute is now offering online treatment appointments as part of its clinical trial known as the STAAR study. The trial will compare the effectiveness of the ...