Health Science
A tracking system that can aid in the conservation of stored blood has been created at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
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Salk Institute scientists have developed a better technique for generating large numbers of blood cells from a patient's own cells.
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The Sanford Guide reference for infectious disease treatent has released its first mobile app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
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Arturo Casadevall, M.D., Ph.D., and Ekaterina Dadachova, Ph.D., of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have been...
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Simply put, people develop diabetes because they don't have enough pancreatic beta cells to produce the insulin necessary to regulate...
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Eating more n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, commonly known as omega-3 fatty acids, may help carriers of a genetic variant on the...
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Researchers offer the first evidence that DNA damage can lead to the regulation of inflammatory responses, the body's reaction to injury. The proteins involved in the regulation help protect the body from infection...
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Several federal agencies have unveiled a new high-speed robot screening system that will test 10,000 different chemicals for potential toxicity. The system marks the beginning of a new phase of an ongoing collaboration, referred to as Tox21...
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The same menace that spreads malaria — the mosquito bite — could help wipe out the deadly disease, according to researchers working on a new vaccine at Tulane University.
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The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) and the Personal Care Products Council (PCPC) hosted the Capitol Hill briefing, The Science of Cosmetics on Wednesday, February 9, with a reception following. Featuring physicians...
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A new approach to anchor teeth back in the jaw using stem cells has been developed and successfully tested in the laboratory for the first time by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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The prospect that your child could be using drugs is one of the scariest things imaginable. Now, scientists in Britain have designed a novel instrument that can be used easily by parents in the privacy of the home to take control before their kids' e
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