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New drug therapy could lead to more effective treatment for millions with asthma
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School researchers identified a new treatment that could lead to more effective drug therapy for millions of individuals with asthma...
Acute treatment suppresses posttraumatic arthritis in ankle injury
A University of Iowa study has identified a method for inhibiting the occurrence of an aggressive form of arthritis that frequently develops following a...
Apple’s iBoot Source Code for iPhone Leaked on Github
Apple source code for a core component of iPhone's operating system has purportedly been leaked on GitHub, that could allow hackers and researchers to...
Researcher Claims Hotspot Shield VPN Service Exposes You on the Internet
Virtual Private Network (VPN) is one of the best solutions you can have to protect your privacy and data on the Internet, but you should...
Researcher uses stem cells to attack bacteria and regenerate dental pulp
Emi Shimizu's research could someday transform a procedure dental patients dread:
the root canal.
Shimizu, a faculty member at Rutgers School of Dental Medicine (RSDM), is...
Mouse study reveals what happens in the gut after too much fructose
Princeton University researchers report that in mice, fructose, a sugar found in fruit, is processed mainly in the small intestine, not in the liver...
Virus-cracking molecules advance fight against hepatitis B
Indiana University researchers have made an important step forward in the design of drugs that fight the hepatitis B virus, which can cause liver...
Despite bans, toxic flame retardants continue to show up in pregnant women’s blood
Adding another chapter to the unfolding story of flame-retardant chemicals and their lasting legacy on the environment and human health, a UC San Francisco...
A blueprint for future blood-nerve barrier and peripheral nerve disease research
Human peripheral nerves—all the nerves outside of the central nervous system—are protected by the blood-nerve barrier.
This is a tight covering of endothelial cells that...
Dementia care improved by just one hour of social interaction each week
Increasing the amount of social interaction for people with dementia living in care homes to just one hour a week improves quality of life...
New algorithm decodes spine oncology treatment
Every kind of cancer can spread to the spine, yet two physician-scientists who treat these patients describe a paucity of guidance for effectively providing...
Scientists can now measure activity of key cancer cell-survival protein, an important step toward...
A recent study from the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute and the University of California, San Francisco, has opened new options to further...
How exercise training promotes a sound mind in a sound body
A new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that the same mechanisms behind the beneficial effects of exercise training on the brain also...
Scientists discover off-switch for ‘molecular machine’ active in many diseases
A discovery by Queensland scientists could be the key to stopping damage caused by uncontrolled inflammation in a range of common diseases including liver...
A brain chemical blamed for mental decline in old age could hold key to...
It's a fact of life, for lifeforms big and small, that the mind declines with age.
Now researchers at UC San Francisco have identified the...
