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Stroke patients : A therapeutic shoe engineered to improve stroke recovery is proving successful
A therapeutic shoe engineered to improve stroke recovery is proving successful and expected to hit the market by the end of the year.
Clinical...
Insulin homeostasis : protein Atp6ap2 is essential for the correct functioning of pancreatic beta...
Researchers from La Trobe University in Australia and the Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, partner in the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.), in...
Researchers have demonstrated why chemotherapy drugs work better with some types of cancers than...
Researchers at Children's Medical Research Institute have demonstrated why chemotherapy drugs work better with some types of cancers than with others.
Dr. Pragathi Masamsetti, the...
New approach for children with high-risk neuroblastoma: giving not one but two autologous stem...
Since the early 1990s, chemotherapy followed by an autologous stem cell transplant has been the standard of care for high-risk neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer...
Teenage girls who experience inadequate sleep increase risk of obesity
Teen girls–but not boys–who prefer to go to bed later are more likely to gain weight, compared to same-age girls who go to bed...
Researchers have developed a new method to transplant neural stem cells without the need...
In experiments in mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have developed a way to successfully transplant certain protective brain cells without the need...
Eating cheese and other dairy products helps improve vascular health
Cheese lovers, rejoice. Antioxidants naturally found in cheese may help protect blood vessels from damage from high levels of salt in the diet, according...
Video games are often blamed as a cause of mass shootings
People are more likely to blame violent video games as a cause of school shootings by white perpetrators than by African American perpetrators, possibly...
Machine learning algorithms can identify bullies and aggressors on Twitter with 90 percent accuracy
A team of researchers, including faculty at Binghamton University, have developed machine learning algorithms which can successfully identify bullies and aggressors on Twitter with...
New research suggests to avoid making any important decisions about the future on an...
We all know that food shopping when hungry is a bad idea but new research from the University of Dundee suggests that people might...
A potential carcinogen is present in electronic cigarette liquids and smokeless tobacco products
A potential carcinogen that has been banned as a food additive is present in concerningly high levels in electronic cigarette liquids and smokeless tobacco...
What distinguishes happy couples?
In marriage, conflict is inevitable. Even the happiest couples argue.
And research shows they tend to argue about the same topics as unhappy couples:...
Cancer treatment could be dramatically improved by new imaging technology
Cancer treatment could be dramatically improved by an invention at the University of Waterloo to precisely locate the edges of tumors during surgery to...
Mosquitoes are more likely to acquire the dengue virus when they feed on blood...
Mosquitoes are more likely to acquire the dengue virus when they feed on blood with low levels of iron, researchers report in the 16...
Influenza A viruses spawn epidemics – scientists discovered vulnerable targets in RNA polymerase
Influenza A viruses spawn epidemics, global pandemics and sweeping outbreaks that kill millions of birds, yet only now have flu scientists obtained comprehensive, high-resolution...
