The U.S. will lead three new global research projects, tackling some of the biggest challenges in cancer research, it was announced today by Cancer Research UK. The teams will: investigate how billions of microorganisms living in our bodies, called the microbiome, could be manipulated to treat colorectal cancer; find new ways to tackle cancers caused…
AUDIO: What proportion of US adults obtain food at work, what foods do they obtain, and what is the dietary quality of these foods? view more Credit: Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Philadelphia, January 22, 2019 – Nearly a quarter of employed adults obtain foods and beverages at work at least once a…
IMAGE: University of Illinois researchers found that grooved surfaces help muscle grow into aligned fibers, which provides a track for neurons to follow. view more Credit: Image by Janet Sinn-Hanlon, University of Illinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Growing muscle tissue on grooved platforms helps neurons more effectively integrate with the muscle, a requirement for engineering muscle in…
Children’s Respiratory Symptoms Can Last Up to Three Weeks Symptoms of children’s respiratory tract infections, including runny nose, dry cough, and sore throat, can seem never-ending. According to new research, it takes 23 days for 90 percent of children to recover from respiratory tract infection symptoms. Researchers used a novel online study design to follow…
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Jan. 23, 2019 – A diagnosis of prediabetes should be a warning for people to make lifestyle changes to prevent both full-blown diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to scientists at Wake Forest School of Medicine. “We know that having diabetes increases the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, so in our study…
IMAGE: USH1 protein of the MIO7A gene and identified mutations. The mutations that have not been previously described are marked in blue. view more Credit: Courtesy of Dmitry Zaletaev A team of scientists from Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (MSMU) together with their colleagues from leading scientific centers of Moscow and India described a number…
IMAGE: Claudia Rebola (left) worked with graduate design students Norberto Sanchez, Sebastian Ramirez (standing) and Swati Chopra to create AntiOD. view more Credit: Andrew Higley/UC Creative Services Like many cities across the country, Cincinnati has been rocked by the opioid epidemic, with an ever-fluctuating range of 50 to 80 overdoses per week across the Tristate. Many…
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Jan. 22, 2019 — The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, has identified a polio-like virus as a potential cause of an outbreak of a disease known as Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM), a crippling condition that causes muscle weakness and paralysis usually among children. At the request…
IMAGE: Materials chemists led by Trisha Andrew at UMass Amherst have developed a fabric that can harvest body heat to power small wearable microelectronics such as activity trackers. They produced and… view more Credit: UMass Amherst/Andrew lab AMHERST, Mass. – Many wearable biosensors, data transmitters and similar tech advances for personalized health monitoring have now been…
WASHINGTON — Consumers who use expensive brand-name prescription drugs when cheaper alternatives are available could face higher costs under a new policy being proposed by the Trump administration. The proposal, to be published this week in the Federal Register, would apply to health insurance plans sold under the Affordable Care Act. Health plans have annual…