New research by the Providence Health Care Research Institute (PHCRI) tackles a major problem plaguing long-term care facilities and hospitals. The study, published in the Nature Publication Group journal Cell Death and Differentiation, gives hope to those with chronic non-healing wounds, a...
In a first for a New Zealand university, Lincoln University has implemented an open access policy, allowing staff and postgraduate students to make their research outputs including research data, teaching materials and public records, openly and freely accessible on the web.The decision by...
As part of my doctoral program, I am conducting a survey among adult Social Media users to analyze their consumer behavior. No special skill or knowledge is required for this survey. This survey is totally anonymous; you don’t need to provide any personal information. I would appreciate if you...
Prevention starts with recognizing one's own limits Each year, more than 1,000 people die from heat stroke in the United States. Long thought to be the product of dehydration, traditional prevention and treatment of heat related illness has been to drink more water. More recent research by the...
I'm in quite the dilemma in choosing what field to go for. I have a great opportunity in the chemistry field, but I'm not sure how the future holds for chemistry or if the salary would be satisfying enough. I think that future technology and development would be fun to be a part of. Taking a...
Insulin is the most potent physiological anabolic agent for tissue-building and energy storage, promoting the storage and synthesis of lipids, protein and carbohydrates, and inhibiting their breakdown and release into the circulatory system. It also plays a major role in stimulating glucose...
Scientists at the University of Sheffield have found that high quality science by female academics is underrepresented in comparison to that of their male counterparts.
The researchers analysed the genders of invited speakers at the most prestigious gatherings of evolutionary biologists in...
The current special issue of Technology and Innovation - Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors®, is devoted to public health research using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to help provide beneficial data for public health researchers focusing on health risks and food access in...
A protein secreted by the chlamydia bug has a very unusual structure, according to scientists in the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio. The discovery of the protein's shape could lead to novel strategies for diagnosing and treating chlamydia, a...
genetic technologies.beacause? Please give me some arguments on why the government should not develop laws to control future genetic research and genetic technologies.
A study undertaken by a team from Marie Curie Hospice Edinburgh, published in British Medical Journal Supportive and Palliative Care, has revealed new insights into the preferences and wishes of people with terminal illness.1 The research, which looked retrospectively at the case notes of 1127...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded researchers at the University of California, Riverside a $60,000 grant to continue their development of face-recognition software to help identify unknown subjects of portrait art.
A $25,000 grant in 2012 allowed the research team —...
What started as a dinner-table conversation between a teen and his father has become a bonafide cancer research study for Matthew Lara, a Davis High School sophomore and the son of UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center medical oncologist and researcher Primo (Lucky) Lara. Matthew, 16, will put on...
Approximately a year ago, the leading journal Science published an article about bexarotene as a potential Alzheimer’s drug. A significant breakthrough and an important starting point for further Alzheimer’s research.
The research group of Bart De Strooper*– Alzheimer’s researcher at VIB and...
I am what is known in the research trade as a ‘basic’ researcher. It’s not that my work is simple. What basic research means is that the work doesn’t have any immediate real world application.
In some people’s eyes that means it’s not useful, or ‘research for the sake of research’. In my...
JAMA Dermatology Study Highlights A research letter by Kamal Jethwani, M.D., M.P.H., of the Center for Connected Health, Boston, and colleagues suggests that clinicians can learn about the perceptions and misconceptions of diseases like acne via Twitter, and communicate reliable medical...
A team of NIH scientists has developed a new tool to identify broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) capable of preventing infection by the majority of HIV strains found around the globe, an advance that could help speed HIV vaccine research. Scientists have long studied HIV-infected...
Latest research reveals minimally invasive spine surgery in an outpatient setting for elderly patients is beneficial Laser Spine Institute, the leader in minimally invasive spine surgery, is proud to announce that two of its recent research studies on treatingÂ?Lumbar Spinal StenosisÂ?(LSS) were...