Tailored pre-transplant therapy boosts survival rate in rare immune deficiency 'It has so to speak 'emptied' Quebec from children with the disease' -- Elie Haddad, CHU Ste-Justine and University of Montreal This news release is available in French. ...

Houston area survey: African-Americans are the most likely to value postsecondary education African-Americans are the most likely of all ethnic groups to emphasize the importance of postsecondary education, according to the 2013 Houston Education Survey. This and other findings ...

Conscientious people more likely to provide good customer service Conscientious people are more likely to provide good customer service, according to a new study from researchers at Rice University. The study, "Relations Between Personality, Knowledge and Behavior in Professional ...

Building block for exoskeleton could lead to more independence among the elderly What if certain patients could get a bionic pick-up without undergoing the pain and lengthy recovery of surgery? University of Cincinnati researchers are working on just that idea, with ...

The secrets of a bug's flight New experiments in Pennsylvania, described in the journal "Physics of Fluids," offer insight into how insects fly and how to design tiny flying robots WASHINGTON, D.C. Nov. 12, 2013 -- Researchers have identified ...

New discovery on early immune system development Researchers at Lund University have shed light on how and when the immune system is formed, raising hope of better understanding various diseases in children, such as leukaemia. The immune system is complex ...

Biomaterial-delivered chemotherapy could provide final blow to brain tumors A polymer originally designed to help mend broken bones could be successful in delivering chemotherapy drugs directly to the brains of patients suffering from brain tumours, ...

American Chemical Society podcast: A greener source of ingredients for plastics WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2013 — The latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS') award-winning Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions podcast series highlights a first-of-its-kind ...

Researchers at Penn add another tool in their directed assembly toolkit An interdisciplinary team of University of Pennsylvania researchers has already developed a technique for controlling liquid crystals by means of physical templates and elastic energy, rather ...

Researchers call for health-care changes to help adults with developmental disabilities (Toronto) November 12, 2013 – Adults with developmental disabilities such as autism and Down syndrome are having a harder time accessing health care even though they ...

Wayne State researchers discover specific inhibitor for rheumatoid arthritis treatment Wayne State collaboration with Northwestern University leads to new understanding of the stress mechanism for development of rheumatoid ...

Penn and Drexel team demonstrates new paradigm for solar cell construction For solar panels, wringing every drop of energy from as many photons as possible is imperative. This goal has sent chemistry, materials science and electronic engineering researchers on ...

New ethics guidelines from American Thyroid Association published in Thyroid journal New Rochelle, NY, November 12, 2013—In this changing era of health care delivery, physician guidelines on ethics are more important than ever. As each specialty ...

Medicine: The heart's metronome A specific cell population is responsible for ensuring that our heartbeat remains regular. Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now elucidated the mode of action of one of the crucial ...

Like shopping at home New research from Concordia University shows how familiarity encourages people to support their favorite businesses This news release is available in French. Montreal, November 12, 2013 — Why put a big comfy couch in the ...

Putting the brakes on immunity Tel Aviv University researchers discover a powerful mechanism that keeps white blood cells from going rogue The immune system is a double-edged sword. While its primary role is to fight infections, it can also become overactive, ...

Shared medical appointments -- Key factors for successful implementation New Rochelle, NY, November 12, 2013–Group visits, also called shared medical appointments (SMAs), can offer advantages over traditional one-on-one patient-physician ...

The secret of short stems Arabidopsis plants that only reach half their normal height have a mutation in the biosynthesis of the plant growth factor gibberellin This news release is available in German. The normal height to which plants grow is ...

A nano-sized sponge made of electrons X-rays reveal an unexpected property of widely used nanoparticles A new chapter has been opened in our understanding of the chemical activity of nanoparticles says a team of international scientists. Using ...

Altering surface textures in 'counterintuitive manner' may lead to cooling efficiency gains Uncovering the physical secrets underlying surface phenomena may increase cooling efficiency for a wide range of applications, according to MIT and Boston University ...

Using morphine after abdominal surgery may prolong pain, CU-Boulder researchers find Using morphine to fight the pain associated with abdominal surgery may paradoxically prolong a patient's suffering, doubling or even tripling the amount of time it takes to recover ...

Deaths from pancreatic cancer rise, fall along racial lines Trends among whites and African-Americans go in opposite directions Pancreatic cancer death rates in whites and blacks have gone in opposite directions over the past several decades in the United States, with ...

Balloon mis-positioning during prostate cancer treatment could affect success of radiation delivery A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Physics in Medicine and Biology shows that endorectal balloons commonly used during ...

UTHealth study aims to change traditional approach to preventing pressure ulcers HOUSTON – (Nov. 11, 2013) – A study led by Nancy Bergstrom, Ph.D., associate dean at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) ...

Taking a new look at carbon nanotubes Berkeley Lab researchers develop technique for imaging individual carbon nanotubes Despite their almost incomprehensibly small size – a diameter about one ten-thousandth the thickness of a human hair – single-walled ...