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Nurses sleep less before a scheduled shift, hindering patient care and safety 2019-12-13
Nurses sleep nearly an hour and a half less before work days compared to days off, which hurts patient care and safety, finds a new study.
People willing to risk near-certain death for an HIV cure 2019-12-13
People willing to risk near-certain death for an HIV cure; protecting individuals and families in genetic and psychiatric research, considerations for including pregnant women in research.
Breakthrough in Zika virus vaccine 2019-12-13
Researchers have made significant advances in developing a novel vaccine against Zika virus, which could potentially lead to global elimination of the disease.
Perinatal exposure to flame retardant alters epigenome, predisposing metabolic disease 2019-12-13
A new study showed that environmentally relevant exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE), a brominated flame retardant, through the umbilical cord and breast milk permanently changed liver metabolism in rats.
New study enhances knowledge about widespread diseases 2019-12-13
When proteins in the brain form deposits consisting of insoluble aggregates, diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's can occur. Now a research team has come a step closer to understanding this process.
Synthetic nanopores made from DNA 2019-12-13
A scientific collaboration has resulted in the construction of a synthetic DNA nanopore capable of selectively translocating protein-size macromolecules across lipid bilayers.
Study probing visual memory, amblyopia unveils many-layered mystery 2019-12-13
Scientists pinpionted the role of a receptor in the plasticity underlying the degradation of vision in the common childhood condition amblyopia, but expected that receptor would play a bigger role in layer 4 of the visual cortex.
Bone bandage soaks up pro-healing biochemical to accelerate repair 2019-12-13
Researchers have engineered a patch or bandage that captures a pro-healing molecule called adenosine that briefly surges at the site of a bone break or fracture to accelerate and improve the natural healing process. In a proof-of-principle study with mice, the bandage helped to accelerate callus formation and vascularization to achieve better bone repair by […]
Knowledge-sharing: a how-to guide 2019-12-13
How is knowledge exchanged and shared when interdisciplinary research teams work together? Researchers have investigated this by studying several different research projects. Their study makes concrete recommendations for how teams can best work together and achieve effective collaborations.
Standard pathology tests outperform molecular subtyping in bladder cancer 2019-12-13
While trying to develop a comparatively easy, inexpensive way to give physicians and their patients with bladder cancer a better idea of likely outcome and best treatment options, scientists found that sophisticated new subtyping techniques designed to do this provide no better information than long-standing pathology tests.
Rectal microbes influence effectiveness of HIV vaccine 2019-12-13
Microbes living in the rectum could make a difference to the effectiveness of experimental HIV vaccines, according to researchers.
Deadly 'superbugs' destroyed by molecular drills 2019-12-12
Motorized molecules activated by light target and drill through highly antibiotic resistant bacteria and kill them within minutes. The molecules can open bacteria to attack by drugs they previously resisted. The strategy could be applied to bacterial infections or diseases on the skin, in the lungs or in the gastrointestinal tract.
Scientists say you can change your personality 2019-12-12
A review of recent research in personality science points to the possibility that personality traits can change through persistent intervention and major life events.
To the brain, straight from the vein: IV treatment for TBI 2019-12-12
A team of researchers has found that neural exosomes -- 'cargo' molecules within the nervous system that carry messages to the brain -- can minimize or even avert progression of traumatic brain injury when used as part of a new cell-to-cell messaging technology.
Breast cancer cells swallow a 'free lunch' of dietary fat particles from the bloodstream 2019-12-12
A research team has previously shown that fatty particles from the bloodstream may boost the growth of breast cancer cells. They now show that through an unexpected mechanism not previously described in cancer cells, the fat particles bind to the breast cancer cell surface and are then taken into the cell, providing a large supply […]
Achieving optimal collaboration when goals conflict 2019-12-12
New research suggests that, when two people must work together on a physical task despite conflicting goals, the amount of information available about each other's actions influences how quickly and optimally they learn to collaborate.
For controlling tsetse flies, fabric color matters 2019-12-12
Researchers report that they have engineered an improved colored fabric for the insecticide-treated targets used to control tsetse, based on an understanding of how flies see color.
New drug targets to treat Nipah virus 2019-12-12
Nipah virus, which is transmitted to humans from bats and pigs, has a high mortality rate and there are no licensed drugs against it. Now, researchers have used information on the structure of the Nipah virus to identified 150 possible inhibitors of the virus.
Largest study of its kind reveals that many psychiatric disorders arise from common genes 2019-12-12
In the largest-ever study of its kind researchers identified more than 100 genetic variants that affect the risk for more than one mental health condition.
Insight into the neglected tropical disease sleeping sickness 2019-12-12
Researchers have shed light on how the parasite which causes sleeping sickness multiples inside its host. Human African Trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness, only occurs in Sub-Saharan Africa where an estimated 60 million people in 36 countries are at risk. The infection attacks the central nervous system and is fatal without treatment. Researchers have found that […]

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