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UrduCancer biologists and engineers collaborated on a device that could help predict the likelihood of breast cancer metastasis Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center and U-M College of Engineering have found that breast cancer cells that swallow…
Finding Missing Network Links Could Help Develop New Drugs, Stop Disease, Ease Traffic
Sex, drugs and traffic: Search for missing links in networks could help uncover new cancer treatments, build more efficient traffic networks and stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2019 — A new mathematical model of…
Which Climates Are Best for Passive Cooling Technologies?
If you guessed locations with drier atmospheres and frequent clear skies, you’re right. WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2019 — A group of University of California, San Diego researchers set out to gain a better understanding of the thermal balance of…
Low Dose of Bacterial Toxin Could Be Protective for Men at Risk of Acute Kidney Injury
Lipopolysaccharide improved outcomes for male, but not female, rats Charlottesville, Va. (June 25, 2019)—In a counterintuitive result, researchers found that giving male rats a low dose of the endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS) prior to inducing a model of acute kidney injury…
Radioactive tadpoles reveal contamination clues
Tadpoles can be used to measure the amount of radiocesium, a radioactive material, in aquatic environments, according to new research from University of Georgia scientists. Whether from nuclear accidents, global fallout from weapons testing, or production of nuclear energy, tadpoles…
UVA Darden Taps Innovation Expert to Lead Degree Programs
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business today announced the appointment of Professor Jeanne Liedtka to the role of senior associate dean for degree programs. Liedtka, who is United Technologies Corporation Professor of Business Administration and has taught at Darden since 1990, will…
Three Honored by Society for Risk Analysis Europe
The Society for Risk Analysis – Europe (SRA-E) awarded three prestigious scholarships at its Annual Conference in Potsdam, Germany. These awards recognize individuals for their outstanding contributions to the study and science of risk analysis. This year’s awardees include: Gavin…
Video Games Offer Clues to Help Curb Animal Disease Outbreaks
As Asia and Europe battle African swine fever outbreaks, University of Vermont research shows how farmers’ risk attitudes affect the spread of infectious animal diseases and offers a first-of-its kind model for testing disease control and prevention strategies. Strengthening biosecurity…
Artificial Intelligence Could be ‘Game Changer’ in Detecting, Managing Alzheimer’s Disease
Study Introduces Machine Learning as New Tactic in Assessing Cognitive Brain Health and Patient Care Worldwide, about 44 million people are living with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or a related form of dementia. Although 82 percent of seniors in the United…
Remote-controlled drug delivery implant the size of a grape may help chronic disease management
Nanofluidic device delivered controlled doses People with chronic diseases like arthritis, diabetes and heart disease may one day forego the daily regimen of pills and, instead, receive a scheduled dosage of medication through a grape-sized implant that is remotely controlled.…
New Transmission Model for Ebola Predicted Latest Uganda Cases
MANHATTAN, KANSAS — A new risk assessment model for the transmission of Ebola accurately predicted its spread into the Republic of Uganda, according to the Kansas State University researchers who developed it. Caterina Scoglio, professor, and Mahbubul Riad, doctoral student, both…
‘M-RISE’ Research Program Aims to Prevent Brain Damage Caused by Cardiac Arrest
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – For the more than 350,000 Americans that experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each year, less than 1 in 10 of those treated will survive with good neurologic function. “Survival for these patients decreases with every minute there is a delay…
Outdoor Exercise Reduces Progression of Common Vision Issue in Children
Rockville, Maryland — New research suggests that adding 30 minutes of daily outdoor activity reduces the progression of nearsightedness, called myopia, in children if the activity is continued. The study, conducted by researchers in Beijing, China, is published in the May 2019…
No cell is an island – ‘doublet’ immune cells
LJI team finds that ‘doublet’ immune cells are much more common—and more important in disease—than previously thought. LA JOLLA, CA – Sorting through individual immune cells is a handy way to see how the body responds to disease. For years,…
Cholesterol Medication Could Invite Diabetes, Study Suggests
Patient data shows association between statins and type 2 diabetes COLUMBUS, Ohio – A study of thousands of patients’ health records found that those who were prescribed cholesterol-lowering statins had at least double the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. …
Four New Rutgers Sweet Basil Varieties are Available to Home Gardeners
Rutgers plant scientists spent a decade evaluating and breeding tasty, downy mildew resistant basils Four new sweet basil varieties resistant to downy mildew disease – which destroys leaves and has been the bane of basil growers for a decade –…
Boise State Scientists Develop New Method to Extract Cyanide from Meteorites
Meteorites long have been mysterious and awe inspiring for human beings, but research conducted at Boise State University illustrates a new source of fascination: researchers have discovered organometallic compounds containing both cyanide and carbon monoxide in select rocks from outer…
Blood Test Predicts Stroke Risk in Patients with Diabetes
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Having diabetes is a risk factor for many other health conditions, including stroke. “Every 40 seconds an American has a stroke,” says Frederick Korley, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Michigan Medicine. “To be…
As ‘Orange is the New Black’ Ends, UNLV Professor Explores How Conditions Have Changed for Incarcerated Women
The Litchfield Correctional Facility in upstate New York might be the fictitious background of Netflix’s hit series “Orange is the New Black.” But the stories of the inmates — portrayed by Hollywood actresses — could be easily found throughout real…
Shorter Rotations in Intensive Care Units Mitigate Burnout Among Physicians
Penn Medicine pilot finds increased job fulfillment, decreased burnout for critical care physicians working seven- versus 14-day rotations PHILADELPHIA – Shortening the length of rotations in a medical intensive care unit (MICU) from the traditional 14-consecutive day schedule to only…
Scientists show how one cause of weak enamel unfolds on the molecular level
Too-tight proteins impede creation of crystalline enamel structure, which can lead to bad teeth Scientists have shown how a tiny flaw in a protein results in damaged enamel that is prone to decay, according to a new study published in…
Applying the Goldilocks Principle to DNA Structure
Scientists consider the form that may be “just right” for scripting gene expression The Goldilocks of fairy-tale fame knew something about porridge. It needed to be just right—neither too hot nor too cold. Same with furniture—neither too hard nor too…
Cover up to reduce the risk of short- and long-term skin damage from the sun’s UV rays
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – June 24, 2019 – Whenever you’re outdoors this summer, be sure to take steps to prevent solar erythema, the acute cutaneous reaction to excessive exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Translation: Don’t get a sunburn. If you do…
Deep Learning Reveals Mysteries of Deep Space
The Science How do you determine the measurable “things” that describe the nature of our universe? To answer that question, researchers used CosmoFlow, a deep learning technique, running on a National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center supercomputer. They analyzed large,…
Berkeley Lab’s John Shalf Ponders the Future of HPC Architectures
What will scientific computing at scale look like in 2030? With the impending demise of Moore’s Law, there are still more questions than answers for users and manufacturers of HPC technologies as they try to figure out what their next…
Treasures From Site of John the Baptist’s Martyrdom Brought to New Light Through Mississippi State’s Cobb Institute of Archaeology
Contact: Allison Matthews STARKVILLE, Miss.—When Mississippi State’s founding director of the Cobb Institute of Archaeology first saw the ancient site of Machaerus—the place in modern-day Jordan near the Dead Sea where John the Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded by Herod…
Research to Prevent Blindness and Partners Award $1.2 Million In Grants for Novel AMD Research
Research to Prevent Blindness, the American Macular Degeneration Foundation and the International Retinal Research Foundation announce four new grantees for the Catalyst Awards for Innovative Research Approaches for AMD. New York, NY, June 24, 2019 — Research to Prevent Blindness,…
AASLD Foundation Invests $3.42 Million in Liver Disease Research and Career Development
Alexandria, VA – The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Foundation, the largest private supporter of liver disease research and training in the United States, today announced its investment of $3.42 million in Research and Career Development…
NASA Makes Dual Investment in Ocean Worlds Research at WHOI
Agency funds five-year effort to understand the potential for life in outer solar system and establishes a new Network for Ocean Worlds The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will invest in a major new research program headquartered at the…
UTHealth program earns accreditation from the Adult Congenital Heart Association
Congenital heart disease, which used to be considered a death sentence, is now a managed disease for adults thanks to advances in medicine and specialized programs such as the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program at The University of Texas Health…
Physicians, Health Providers and Researchers Call on Presidential Candidates to Back Funding, Preparedness and Evidence-based Responses to Infectious Diseases, HIV
In a bipartisan-aimed petition, more than 500 members of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, its HIV Medicine Association and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society are calling on all presidential candidates to commit themselves to public health policies, programs, and…
PhRMA Foundation Announces the 2019 Value Assessment Challenge Award Recipients
The Awards Support New Concepts that Help Define Innovative, Patient-Centered Approaches to Measuring Health Care Value (June 25, 2019) The PhRMA Foundation announced today the winners of the 2019 Value Assessment Challenge Awards. Designed to encourage innovative approaches in defining…
Rockets gather radio data to study atmosphere disturbances
ITHACA, N.Y. – Two NASA sounding rockets were sent to the edges of the atmosphere above the Marshall Islands on June 19 in order to study communication disruption in the upper atmosphere. The rockets deployed two tracers to gather information…
Cutting Edge Research Grants Announced by The American Macular Degeneration Foundation
Co-funded with Research to Prevent Blindness Northampton, MA – The American Macular Degeneration Foundation (AMDF), in partnership with Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB), has announced the recipients of the RPB/AMDF Catalyst Awards for Innovative Research Approaches for Age-Related Macular Degeneration,…
Culture Shapes How We Learn to Reason?
If you made any plans for next week, congratulations! You’ve demonstrated a key feature of being human: being able to think beyond the here and now – or, think abstractly. But when babies learn different kinds of abstract thought, and…
How trees affect the weather
Trees’ water-use strategies can intensify droughts Nature, said Ralph Waldo Emerson, is no spendthrift. Unfortunately, he was wrong. New research led by University of Utah biologists William Anderegg, Anna Trugman and David Bowling find that some plants and trees are…
Monarch butterflies bred in captivity may lose the ability to migrate, study finds
Commercially-bred monarchs are genetically distinct from wild counterparts and do not fly southward, even in offspring raised in natural, outdoor conditions. Monarch butterflies purchased from a commercial breeder did not fly in a southward direction, even in offspring raised outdoors,…
Tropical Soil Disturbance Could Be Hidden Source of CO2
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Thousand-year-old tropical soil unearthed by accelerating deforestation and agriculture land use could be unleashing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to a new study from researchers at Florida State University. In an investigation of 19 sites in…
Woodstock really was a free-wheeling festival, new archeological research shows
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. – The Woodstock Music Festival celebrates its 50th anniversary this summer, and new archaeological research from Binghamton University, State University of New York shows that the iconic event took on a life of its own. Binghamton University’s Public…
Ocean Medical Center Foundation Raises Nearly $250,000 at Annual Golf Classic
Brick, NJ ― June 24, 2019 ― Hackensack Meridian Health Ocean Medical Center Foundation raised nearly $250,000 at the 29th Annual Golf Classic, which took place on June 17 at Manasquan River Golf Club in Brielle. This year’s event welcomed…
Engineered Cell Evolution May Provide Pathway to Halting Cancer Drug Resistance
STONY BROOK, NY, June 24,, 2019 — A significant problem when treating cancer patients remains drug resistance, which often causes chemotherapy treatments to ultimately fail. Scientists in recent years have hypothesized that cell-cell differences, also known as cell heterogeneity, aides…
Explaining Light-Nuclei Production in Heavy-Ion Nuclear Collisions
Pairs of sub-atomic particles may catalyze reactions that happened moments after the Big Bang. The Science Nuclear physicists smash ions together to create and study the soup of quarks and gluons thought to fill the universe milliseconds after the Big…
Clarkson Professor Receives Prestigious Katsumi Niki Prize for Bioelectrochemistry
Clarkson Professor Evgeny Katz, the Milton Kerker Chair of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, was awarded the Katsumi Niki Prize for Bioelectrochemistry 2019 for his outstanding contribution to the fields of bioelectrochemistry, biosensors, bioelectronics, biofuel cell, and biocomputing. He…
IFT Takes Inclusion to a Whole New Level at IFT19
By Randy Kreienbrink, CFS I always look forward to attending the IFT Annual Event and Food Expo, and I especially love when it takes place in New Orleans. Being a food town, it’s always fun to convene there with my…
Decoding the Updated Nutrition Facts Label
June 18, 2019 By Farida Mohamedshah, MS, CNS It’s been three years since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced updates to the Nutrition Facts label on packaged goods. In the time that’s passed, many manufacturers have started implementing…
Students Showcase Knowledge, Creativity Through Competitions
June 17, 2019 By Amy Clarke Sievers Each year, IFT provides student members a wealth of opportunities to expand their knowledge, explore potential career paths, network with peers, volunteer their time, and socialize at its Annual Event and Food Expo.…
WashU Expert: First Native American U.S. poet laureate will inspire the nation
Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, has been selected as the 23rd U.S. poet laureate, a move that will inspire Native American people throughout the country, says Kellie Thompson, director of the Kathryn M. Buder Center for…
How to bend waves to arrive at the right place
Waves do not always spread uniformly into all directions, but can form a remarkable ‘branched flow’. At TU Wien (Vienna) a method has now been developed to control this phenomenon. In free space, the light wave of a laser beam…
Big Data Says Food Is Too Sweet
PHILADELPHIA (June 24, 2019) – New research from the Monell Center analyzed nearly 400,000 food reviews posted by Amazon customers to gain real-world insight into the food choices that people make. The findings reveal that many people find the foods…
‘Bathtub rings’ around Titan’s lakes might be made of alien crystals
New research presented at the 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference in Bellevue, Wa. BELLEVUE, WA –The frigid lakeshores of Saturn’s moon Titan might be encrusted with strange, unearthly minerals, according to new research being presented here. Scientists re-creating Titan-esque conditions in…