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High levels of chronic stress associated with hypertension in African Americans

African Americans reporting high levels of chronic stress tended to develop high blood pressure, or hypertension, more often than those who reported low stress levels, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, the open access journal of the American Heart Association.

16 Oct 2019

No more tater tots? California schools put healthier lunches to the test

When Miguel Villarreal addresses a crowded education conference, a group of school district administrators or a room full of curious parents, he often holds aloft a foil-wrapped package of Pop-Tarts — the heavily processed, high-sugar snack routinely sold on school campuses.

16 Oct 2019

Non-invasive tape strips can be used in children to assess atopic dermatitis on the molecular level

In a study using non-invasive tape strips in young children with eczema (or atopic dermatitis), researchers found many molecular signs of immune dysfunction and skin changes that relate to disease activity.

16 Oct 2019

Sphere Fluidics expands into additional facility at Granta Park in Cambridge, UK

Sphere Fluidics, announce it has opened a new office space at Granta Park. New facilities support the Company’s accelerated expansion.

From Fluidic Sciences and Sphere Bio 16 Oct 2019

Oxford Genetics and Sphere Fluidics announce a multi-partner collaboration

Oxford Genetics and Sphere Fluidics announce a multi-partner collaboration to expedite the development of automated microfluidic systems.

From Fluidic Sciences and Sphere Bio 16 Oct 2019

The Scientist names Cyto-Mine technology #1 in the Top 10 Innovations of 2018

We are delighted to announce that Cyto-Mine is one of the winners of The Scientist 2018 Top 10 Innovations!

From Fluidic Sciences and Sphere Bio 16 Oct 2019

Telescope technology used to take first undistorted images of eye area involved in glaucoma

Using methods originally developed by astronomers to view stars more clearly through Earth's atmosphere, optometry researchers at Indiana University have taken the first undistorted microscopic images of a part of the eye involved in glaucoma.

16 Oct 2019

Health care stayed front and center at Democratic debate

This time, it wasn't just about "Medicare for All."

16 Oct 2019

NIH awards new contract to integrate pathogen and vector genomics database

A team led by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Georgia provides thousands of researchers around the world with access to the Eukaryotic Pathogen Genomics Database (EuPathDB.org), a collection of resources for analyzing large-scale datasets associated with microbial pathogens.

16 Oct 2019

Study: Natural loss of foot muscles in rodents shares similarities with skeletal muscle atrophy

New insight on how the natural loss of foot muscles occurred in rodents and other species during their evolution has been published today in the open-access journal eLife.

16 Oct 2019

Researcher explores biological processes that cause fertility problems in humans

With significant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington is investigating fundamental biological processes that lead to fertility problems in humans.

16 Oct 2019

International system can provide practical guideline on cannabis use, say researchers

Despite widespread use of the drug around the world and increasing moves to legalise its sale for recreational consumption, standard units - which have been commonplace for alcohol for many years - have never been adopted in health guidelines for cannabis.

16 Oct 2019

Study: Genetic differences in the immune system shape bacteria that colonize the digestive system

Genetic differences in the immune system shape the collections of bacteria that colonize the digestive system, according to new research by scientists at the University of Chicago.

16 Oct 2019

Study shows how electrostatic interactions can be regulated to control scroll-like cochleate structures

Northwestern Engineering materials science researchers have uncovered new insights into how electrostatic interactions can be regulated to attain and control scroll-like cochleate structures, which could inform how to capture and release macromolecules in a size-selective manner as part of future drug-delivery strategies.

16 Oct 2019

Insilico Medicine presents experimentally validated model for drug discovery at NeurIPS 2019

Insilico Medicine, a biotechnology company developing an end-to-end drug discovery pipeline utilizing next-generation artificial intelligence, is proud to present its paper "A Prior of a Googol Gaussians: a Tensor Ring Induced Prior for Generative Models" at the 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).

16 Oct 2019

CDISC and C-Path develop new standard to streamline data for animal rule studies

The Critical Path Institute (C-Path) and CDISC are pleased to announce the release of a global Foundational Standard that describes how to represent data for the natural history and efficacy studies conducted in animals submitted to applications under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations commonly known as the Animal Rule.

16 Oct 2019

Steroid injections for osteoarthritis more may damage joints

Osteoarthritis (OA), also called degenerative joint disease, is the most common chronic condition of the joints. Since the disease is degenerative, it is the single most common cause of disability among older adults, with about 10 to 15 percent of all adults who are more than 60 years old have some degree of osteoarthritis, with more women affected than men.

15 Oct 2019

Researchers predict Tularemia outbreaks as climate changes

Stockholm University researchers have found that the impact of climate change of disease incidence of tularemia could be statistically predicted. In high-latitude regions, where the disease was less common, global warming could lead to increasing number of cases of the disease they wrote.

15 Oct 2019

White noise listening device for monitoring infant breathing

Researchers at the University of Washington have come up with a device which acts as a monitor for infant breathing patterns while playing white noise to soothe them to sleep. The results of their study with the new device would be presented in an article titled, “Contactless Infant Monitoring using White Noise,” at the MobiCom 2019 conference in Los Cabos, Mexico on the 22nd of this month.

15 Oct 2019

Researchers aim to find how kinesiophobia may affect individuals with chronic musculoskeletal pain

Finding out how kinesiophobia -unreasonable fear of movement- may affect individuals with chronic musculoskeletal pain is the aim of a research group of the University of Malaga, which recent studies have been published in the scientific journal British Journal of Sports Medicine, the world's number 1 publication in the locomotor system field.

15 Oct 2019

Research News and Research

High levels of chronic stress associated with hypertension in African Americans

No more tater tots? California schools put healthier lunches to the test

Non-invasive tape strips can be used in children to assess atopic dermatitis on the molecular level

Sphere Fluidics expands into additional facility at Granta Park in Cambridge, UK

Oxford Genetics and Sphere Fluidics announce a multi-partner collaboration

The Scientist names Cyto-Mine technology #1 in the Top 10 Innovations of 2018

Telescope technology used to take first undistorted images of eye area involved in glaucoma

Health care stayed front and center at Democratic debate

NIH awards new contract to integrate pathogen and vector genomics database

Study: Natural loss of foot muscles in rodents shares similarities with skeletal muscle atrophy

Researcher explores biological processes that cause fertility problems in humans

International system can provide practical guideline on cannabis use, say researchers

Study: Genetic differences in the immune system shape bacteria that colonize the digestive system

Study shows how electrostatic interactions can be regulated to control scroll-like cochleate structures

Insilico Medicine presents experimentally validated model for drug discovery at NeurIPS 2019

CDISC and C-Path develop new standard to streamline data for animal rule studies

Steroid injections for osteoarthritis more may damage joints

Researchers predict Tularemia outbreaks as climate changes

White noise listening device for monitoring infant breathing

Researchers aim to find how kinesiophobia may affect individuals with chronic musculoskeletal pain

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