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Study shows how metamemory improves from childhood through adolescence

Being able to assess our own memories helps us to avoid errors and prompts us to collect more information to fill the gaps.

6 Jul 2017

Keck School of Medicine of USC awarded seven-year NIH grant for research on lung cell regeneration

The Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California is one of four institutions in California to receive a multimillion R35 grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in 2017.

5 Jul 2017

Study reveals maternal beliefs and rules regarding child's television watching behavior

Watching television sometimes gets a bad rap--especially where children and screen time are concerned--but not all of it's deserved.

5 Jul 2017

Study: Personalized neoantigen vaccine stimulates strong anti-tumor response in melanoma patients

A personal cancer treatment vaccine that targets distinctive "neoantigens" on tumor cells has been shown to stimulate a potent, safe, and highly specific immune anti-tumor response in melanoma patients, report scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

5 Jul 2017

Shingles raises the risk for heart attack and stroke

Persons who have had chicken pox are prone to develop shingles with the Herpes zoster virus that lays dormant within them. A new study has shown that getting shingles - a painful skin condition caused by the virus could also raise the risk of heart disease such as heart attacks and strokes in individuals. The study was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

5 Jul 2017

New molecular technique can clone thousands of long DNA sequences at the same time

Scientists at Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, the University of Trento in Italy, and Harvard Medical School report they have developed a new molecular technique called LASSO cloning, which can be used to isolate thousands of long DNA sequences at the same time, more than ever before possible.

5 Jul 2017

Daily movement program has potential to boost children’s learning

Following a daily movement program can improve children's physical development levels and has the potential to boost their chances in the classroom, researchers from Loughborough University have found.

5 Jul 2017

What tax breaks? Those promised in GOP plans go mostly to top 1%

There's much talk on Capitol Hill about the tax cuts included in the Republican health plans, but unless you are a frequent user of tanning beds or have personal wealth that puts you in the top 1 percent, you might not feel much effect from them.

5 Jul 2017

Reducing DVT and leg ulcers through personalized compression socks

Professor Charles McCollum, who heads up the vascular studies unit, is a research vascular surgeon, and he developed four-layer bandaging technique, which is the gold standard treatment for healing up leg ulcers by compression.

5 Jul 2017

Comprehensive smokefree laws considered as victory for public health and parliament

Comprehensive smokefree laws including pubs and bars came into force ten years ago. They are rightly considered a victory for public health and a model of good regulation. But they would not have come into effect without strong cross-party support from parliament.

5 Jul 2017

First systematic genomic analysis of patients with T-ALL may aid development of new therapies

A consortium including St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Children's Oncology Group has performed an unprecedented genomic sequencing analysis of hundreds of patients with T-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL).

4 Jul 2017

Schistosomiasis: the biggest killer you’ve never heard of?

Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease, sometimes called bilharzia or snail fever. The disease impacts a huge number of people around the world, over 230 million people are infected with one of the schistosome species, the parasitic worms that causes the disease.

4 Jul 2017

Research underscores how environments during infancy can cause inflammation in adulthood

New Northwestern University research underscores how environmental conditions early in development can cause inflammation in adulthood - an important risk factor for a wide range of diseases of aging, including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, autoimmune diseases and dementia.

4 Jul 2017

Children News and Research

Study shows how metamemory improves from childhood through adolescence

Keck School of Medicine of USC awarded seven-year NIH grant for research on lung cell regeneration

Study reveals maternal beliefs and rules regarding child's television watching behavior

Study: Personalized neoantigen vaccine stimulates strong anti-tumor response in melanoma patients

Shingles raises the risk for heart attack and stroke

New molecular technique can clone thousands of long DNA sequences at the same time

Daily movement program has potential to boost children’s learning

What tax breaks? Those promised in GOP plans go mostly to top 1%

Reducing DVT and leg ulcers through personalized compression socks

Comprehensive smokefree laws considered as victory for public health and parliament

First systematic genomic analysis of patients with T-ALL may aid development of new therapies

Schistosomiasis: the biggest killer you’ve never heard of?

Research underscores how environments during infancy can cause inflammation in adulthood

Study finds high levels of serotonin in blood of SIDS infants

Cambridge scientists develop new method for growing and transplanting artificial bile ducts

Research identifies main factors that influence low birth weight in Nepal

Finnish mothers carry rare gene variants that protect them from pre-eclampsia, study finds

Researchers identify link between childhood psychiatric disorders and later risk of addictions

Novel technique to monitor nerve function could transform the way doctors perform surgeries

Live birth outcome affected by age of male partner, study shows

Improving healthcare sustainability through carbon data

A New Approach to Preventing Bladder Cancer Recurrence

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

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