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Johns Hopkins animal study reveals sex-specific patterns of recovery from newborn brain injury
Physicians have long known that oxygen deprivation to the brain around the time of birth causes worse damage in boys than girls. Now a study by researchers from the ...
Read the releaseWSU research study supports new safety rule for truck drivers
SPOKANE, Wash. –The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today released the findings of ...
Read the releasePenn study finds more than a third of women have hot flashes 10 years after menopause
PHILADELPHIA - A team of researchers from the Perelman School ...
Read the releaseLike the X-Men, a diversely talented group of cancer cells is hard to defeat
For a cancer cell, it pays to have a group of eccentric friends. Like X-Men characters, a group ...
Read the releaseCould you relationship with your mom increase your child's chances of obesity?
URBANA, Ill. – Could the quality of your attachment to your parents affect your own child's risk for obesity? A new ...
Read the releaseRice lab clocks 'hot' electrons
HOUSTON – (Jan. 30, 2014) – Plasmonic nanoparticles developed at Rice University are becoming known for their ability to turn light into heat, but how to use them to generate ...
Read the releaseForests in Central America paying the price of drug trafficking shift
A group of researchers focused on sustainable practices, geography and earth sciences found something unexpected during their work in Central America: the effects of drug trafficking ...
Read the releaseWhat your company can learn from NASA tragedies
BYU business professor Peter Madsen has been researching NASA's safety climate ever since the Columbia shuttle broke apart upon re-entering Earth's ...
Read the releaseUSF psychologist: Childhood depression may increase risk of heart disease by teen years
TAMPA, Fla. – Children with depression are more likely to be obese, ...
Read the releaseRI Hospital researchers identify components in C. diff that may lead to better treatment
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Rhode Island Hospital researchers have identified components in Clostridium ...
Read the releaseResearchers create database to examine vast resources of health legacy foundations
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Jan. 30, 2014 - Local communities can expect the number and asset size of philanthropic foundations to increase, due to the rise in health ...
Read the releaseA detailed look at HIV in action
The human intestinal tract, or gut, is best known for its role in digestion. But this collection of organs also plays a prominent ...
Read the releaseThird-hand smoke shown to cause health problems
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Do not smoke and do not allow yourself to be exposed ...
Read the releaseNew study finds differences in concussion risk between football helmets
Football helmets can be designed to reduce the risk of concussions, according to a new study by some of the nation's leading concussion researchers published today in the Journal of Neurosurgery. The study ...
Read the releaseLemur lovers sync their scents
DURHAM, N.C. -- The strength of a lemur couple's bond is reflected by the similarity of their scents, finds a new study. "It's like singing a duet, but with ...
Read the releaseNew study finds no reason to replace fructose with glucose
TORONTO, Feb. 1, 2014 – Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital have found there is no benefit in replacing fructose, the sugar most commonly blamed for obesity, with glucose in commercially prepared ...
Read the releaseUse of testosterone therapy linked to heart attacks in men under 65, study shows
You may have seen one of the many advertisements geared toward men asking if they suffer from "low T" — low testosterone levels that, according to the ads, can result ...
Read the releaseClinical study finds 'bubble CPAP' boosts neonatal survival rates
HOUSTON -- (Jan. 29, 2014) -- The first clinical study of a low-cost neonatal breathing system created by Rice University bioengineering students ...
Read the releaseResearchers find novel approach for controlling deadly C. difficile infections
Researchers from the Alberta Glycomics Centre at the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta, ...
Read the releasePrecise gene editing in monkeys paves the way for valuable human disease models
Monkeys are important for modeling diseases because of their close similarities to humans, but past efforts to precisely modify genes in primates have failed. In a study published by Cell Press ...
Read the releaseCell cycle speed is key to making aging cells young again
A fundamental axiom of biology used to be that cell fate is a one-way street — once a cell commits to becoming muscle, skin, or blood it always remains muscle, skin, or blood cell. That belief was upended ...
Read the releaseMount Sinai researchers identify UHRF1 as oncogene driving liver cancer
New York, NY – Patients with advanced hepatocellular (or liver) cancer ...
Read the releaseHow DNA damage affects Golgi -- the cell's shipping department
In studying the impact of DNA damage on the Golgi, a research team from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have discovered ...
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