Health Science
Shoppers—particularly women—who take the time to read food labels are thinner than those who don’t, a new study has found.
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Chemists led by Vincent Rotello at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a rapid, sensitive way to detect microscopic levels of many different metastatic cell types in living tissue.
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A team of engineers and students at the University of Rhode Island has developed an advanced blood-testing technology that incorporates a smartphone application, a hand-held biosensor and a credit card-sized cartridge...
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Each time Sharon DeWitte takes a 3-foot by 1-foot archival box off the shelf at the Museum of London she hopes it will be heavy....
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Mass spectrometry protein assays that match sensitivity and accuracy of antibody-based clinical tests might speed drug discovery, basic biology research.
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With nearly 55 million students, teachers and school staff about to return to elementary and secondary school classrooms, scientists recently described a new hand-held sensor that could keep classroom air fresher and kids more alert for learning.
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Almost 30 years after discovery of a link between alcohol consumption and certain forms of cancer, scientists are reporting the first evidence from research on people explaining how the popular beverage may be carcinogenic.
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New insights gained on how lasers generate ions in dense plasmas.
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A slice of light is about to come into focus for the first time, thanks to a new X-ray detector constructed at the University of South Carolina.
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Method used at Stony Brook’s Proteomics Center, detailed in PLoS One, provides evidence of active infection and opens door to new ways of uncovering history’s medical mysteries.
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Evidence-based approach enhances existing prevention strategies.
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New Brunswick, Canada's Soricimed Biopharma faces unique challenges as it looks to continue research.
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