New way to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria: Target human cells instead As more reports appear of a grim "post-antibiotic era" ushered in by the rise of drug-resistant bacteria, a new strategy for fighting infection is emerging that targets a patient's ...

Mounting challenges undermine parenting Family Life Project releases major new findings New findings from a long-running study of nearly 1300 rural children by UNC's Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) reveal ...

Evidence mounts for endometrial cancer tumor testing to identify women with Lynch syndrome A recent article by Norris Cotton Cancer Center researchers published in the January 2014 issue of the journal Clinical Chemistry reviews the scientific ...

Office holiday parties highlight racial dissimilarities and fail to promote team unity Research from Columbia Business School warns that management's attempt to build closer bonds among colleagues through office gatherings fails to help among racially dissimilar ...

Eating burgers from restaurants associated with higher obesity risk in in African-American women (Boston) – Americans are increasingly eating more of their meals prepared away from home, and this is particularly true among African Americans, who also ...

Maternal health program in India failing to deliver, study shows Study shows investment of $25 million hasn't changed numbers DURHAM, N.C. -- A prominent program that claims to reduce infant and maternal deaths in rural India by encouraging mothers to deliver in private hospitals ...

Skip the balloon after placing carotid stent, surgeons suggest Johns Hopkins surgeons say skipping one commonly taken step during a routine procedure to insert a wire mesh stent into a partially blocked carotid artery appears to prevent patients from developing ...

Study finds biomaterials repair human heart Clemson University biological sciences student Meghan Stelly and her father, Alabama cardiovascular surgeon Terry Stelly, investigated a biomedical application following a coronary artery bypass surgery and found that the application ...

The garden microbe with a sense of touch A common soil dwelling bacterium appears to possess a sense of touch, researchers have shown. A study, by Dr James Stratford at The University of Nottingham and Dr Simon Park at the University of Surrey, has ...

Toxic substances in banana plants kill root pests Banana plants protect themselves from parasitic nematodes by increasing local concentrations of defensive substances in infected root tissues This news release is available in German. ...

Picturing pain could help unlock its mysteries and lead to better treatments Understanding the science behind pain, from a simple "ouch" to the chronic and excruciating, has been an elusive goal for centuries. But now, researchers are reporting a promising ...

Each food fish can cause specific allergies Research into protein provides new insight into fish allergies This news release is available in German. Leipzig. Food allergies are evidently much more specific than previously assumed. ...

Magpie parents know a baby cuckoo when they see one Cuckoo fledglings are fed less frequently by magpie parents when raised together with magpie nestlings Cuckoos that lay their eggs in the nest of a magpie so that their chicks can be raised by the latter better hope ...

Keeping growth in check Ribosomal proteins RPL5 and RPL11 play an essential role in normal cell proliferation Researchers from the Laboratory of Cancer Metabolism (LCM) led by George Thomas at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute ...

Queen's leads 6-million-euro European study to combat bowel cancer Queen's University has announced it is to lead a €6 million European study to find new treatments for bowel cancer. The research, which involves 13 partners in eight different European countries, ...

Hemophilia and long-term HIV infection -- is there a protective link? New Rochelle, NY, December 11, 2013—People with the genetic blood clotting disorder hemophilia who have been infected with HIV for decades have an increased ...

New system allows for high-accuracy, through-wall, 3-D motion tracking Technology could revolutionize gaming, fall detection among the elderly, and more Imagine playing a video game like Call of Duty or Battlefield and having the ability to lead your virtual ...

Precise docking sites for cells This news release is available in German. The Petri dish is a classical biological laboratory device, but it is no ideal living environment for many types of cells. Studies lose validity, as cell behavior on a flat plastic ...

UNL-led team finds less is more with adding graphene to nanofibers Creates potential for high-performance, low-cost carbon nanofibers Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 11, 2103 -- Figuring that if some is good, more must be better, researchers have been trying to pack more ...

Negative resistivity leads to positive resistance in the presence of a magnetic field In a paper appearing in Nature's Scientific Reports, Dr. Ramesh Mani, professor of physics and astronomy at Georgia State University, reports that, in the presence of a magnetic ...

Even when test scores go up, some cognitive abilities don't CAMBRIDGE, MA -- To evaluate school quality, states require students to take standardized tests; in many cases, passing those tests is necessary to receive a high-school diploma. These high-stakes ...

1 protein, 2 personalities: Penn team identifies new mechanism of cancer spread Cancer involves a breakdown of normal cell behavior. Cell reproduction and movement go haywire, causing tumors to grow and spread through the body. A new finding by University ...

Online tool aids clinicians' efforts to treat injured workers University of Alberta researchers have developed a new web-based tool to aid health professionals in determining the right treatment course for injured workers, helping them feel better and get back ...

In search of a treatment for a rare bone cancer Johns Hopkins researchers use FDA-approved lung cancer medication to shrink chordoma in mice Johns Hopkins researchers say that a drug approved to treat lung cancer substantially shrank tumors in mice that were ...

Hipster, surfer or biker? Computers may soon be able to tell the difference Researchers develop algorithm that uses computer vision to identify social groups Are you a hipster, surfer or biker? What is your urban tribe? Your computer may soon be able ...