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Access to affordable, safe, palatable tap water can reduce sugary drink intake among low income families

As the White House prepares for the first conference on hunger, nutrition and health in more than 50 years, public health officials point out that providing access to safe potable drinking water must be part of the national conversation.

23 Sep 2022

Machine learning-mediated decoder based on patterns created by bacterial colonies

From a box of Cracker Jack to The Da Vinci Code, everybody enjoys deciphering secret messages. But biomedical engineers at Duke University have taken the decoder ring to place it's never been before—the patterns created by bacterial colonies.

23 Sep 2022

Two waves of Pitx2 expression orchestrate gut rotation during development, study finds

Our guts, and all our organs, are arranged in left-right asymmetric patterns inside our bodies, so that everything may fit.

23 Sep 2022

Investigating a potential new treatment for glioblastomas

A research question posed in Pankaj Desai's lab has led to a decade of research, a clinical trial and major national funding to further investigate a potential new treatment for the most deadly form of brain tumors.

23 Sep 2022

Patient receives Pacific Northwest's first donation-after-circulatory-death heart transplant

On Aug. 11, LifeCenter Northwest, the Organ Procurement Organization for Washington, and UW Medicine's heart transplant team together facilitated the Pacific Northwest's first donation-after-circulatory-death (DCD) heart transplant.

23 Sep 2022

Study identifies a potential non-invasive therapy that could check the progress of Alzheimer's disease

A new study conducted by the scientist of the UMA Inés Moreno, in collaboration with the University of Texas, has identified a potential non-invasive therapy that could check the progress of Alzheimer's disease, "the major form of dementia in the elderly population".

23 Sep 2022

New discovery on how hearing works may lead to the design of better cochlear implants

The way in which we experience music and speech differs from what has until now been believed. This is the conclusion of a study by researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, and the Oregon Health and Science University, USA.

23 Sep 2022

Review: Cold water swimming may cut 'bad' body fat in men and reduce the risk of diabetes

Taking a dip in cold water may cut 'bad' body fat in men and reduce the risk of disorders such as diabetes, suggests a major scientific review published in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Circumpolar Health.

23 Sep 2022

UVA's new discovery could help ramp up production of blood-clotting platelets

A new discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine could let doctors ramp up production of blood-clotting platelets on demand, a timely finding following the Red Cross' declaration earlier this year of a national blood "crisis."

23 Sep 2022

The brain simultaneously processes linguistic and extralinguistic information, study finds

An international team of scientists from the UK, Spain, Denmark and Russia (including researchers from the HSE Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience) conducted an experiment demonstrating that people automatically integrate extralinguistic information into grammatical processing during verbal communication.

23 Sep 2022

Generating a mutation in key molecules could offer new way to prevent and treat gonorrhea

Creating a mutation that inhibits how the bacterial pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae causes gonorrhea, a common sexually transmitted infection, could offer a new way to prevent and treat the disease, according to researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.

23 Sep 2022

Researchers show how mucus protects the small intestine in mice

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have now shown how mucus protects the small intestine in mice. In the future, this finding may lead to new ways of preventing relapse in Crohn’s disease in humans.

23 Sep 2022

Only 48% of older adults regularly check their blood pressure at home, study finds

Only 48% of people age 50 to 80 who take blood pressure medications or have a health condition that's affected by hypertension regularly check their blood pressure at home or other places, a new study finds.

23 Sep 2022

Providence study sheds new light on the added benefit of COVID-19 boosters among vaccinated individuals

A Providence study released online today in the Journal of the American Medical Association sheds new light on the added benefit of a booster dose of a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine among previously vaccinated individuals.

23 Sep 2022

Study reveals a testable hypothesis to explain the initiation of autoimmunity in T1D patients

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease in which the pancreas makes little or no insulin. The details on the events that occur during autoimmune destruction of the pancreatic beta-cells have been studied extensively yet the mystery of what causes autoimmunity is unknown.

23 Sep 2022

U-M receives $5.5 million federal grant to launch National Institutes of Health firearm research coordinating center

The University of Michigan has received a $5.5 million federal grant to launch a National Institutes of Health firearm research coordinating center that will oversee community-based research projects designed to reduce firearm-related injuries, the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in the United States.

23 Sep 2022

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Access to affordable, safe, palatable tap water can reduce sugary drink intake among low income families

Machine learning-mediated decoder based on patterns created by bacterial colonies

Two waves of Pitx2 expression orchestrate gut rotation during development, study finds

Investigating a potential new treatment for glioblastomas

Patient receives Pacific Northwest's first donation-after-circulatory-death heart transplant

Study identifies a potential non-invasive therapy that could check the progress of Alzheimer's disease

New discovery on how hearing works may lead to the design of better cochlear implants

Review: Cold water swimming may cut 'bad' body fat in men and reduce the risk of diabetes

UVA's new discovery could help ramp up production of blood-clotting platelets

The brain simultaneously processes linguistic and extralinguistic information, study finds

Generating a mutation in key molecules could offer new way to prevent and treat gonorrhea

Researchers show how mucus protects the small intestine in mice

Only 48% of older adults regularly check their blood pressure at home, study finds

Providence study sheds new light on the added benefit of COVID-19 boosters among vaccinated individuals

Study reveals a testable hypothesis to explain the initiation of autoimmunity in T1D patients

U-M receives $5.5 million federal grant to launch National Institutes of Health firearm research coordinating center

Scientists identify the mechanism responsible for exceptional auditory abilities in Williams-Beuren syndrome

Study shows 72% increase in new diagnoses of type 1 diabetes in young COVID-19 patients

Researchers examine the impact of COVID-19 measures on influenza circulation in Canada

Low-cost sensors embedded into t-shirts and face masks to monitor breathing, heart rate

How real-time off-gas analysis improves fermentation process control

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