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Brain Scans Predict Success in Quitting Smoking

Brain scans showing neural reactions to pro-health messages can predict if you'll keep that resolution to quit smoking more accurately than you yourself can….

Life & Chemistry

Plants Adapt Genetically to Thrive in Harsh Environments

David Salt, a professor of horticulture, noticed several years ago that a variant of the research plant Arabidopsis thaliana that could tolerate higher levels…

Life & Chemistry

Pitt Team Grows Elastic Arteries for Living Vascular Grafts

University of Pittsburgh researchers have grown arteries that exhibit the elasticity of natural blood vessels at the highest levels reported, a development…

Health & Medicine

Smart Lasers: Painless Cancer Biopsies and Faster Drug Development

To test for skin cancer, patients today must endure doctors cutting away a sliver of skin, sending the biopsy to a lab and anxiously awaiting the results….

Interdisciplinary Research

New approach needed to prevent major 'systemic failures'

“The striking similarities in such catastrophes necessitates a broader perspective to better understand such failures,” said Venkat Venkatasubramanian, a…

Studies and Analyses

Aging safely at home? California's disabled elderly are barely holding on

This policy note reports the first findings from a yearlong effort to follow the lives and challenges encountered by several dozen representative older…

Medical Engineering

Innovative Diagnosis Tools Enhance Pathologists’ Accuracy

Researchers are leveraging Ohio Supercomputer Center resources to develop computer-assisted diagnosis tools that will provide pathologists grading Follicular…

Earth Sciences

Study Reveals Predictive Models for Last Summer’s Pakistan Floods

Now, a new scientific study that retrospectively examines the raw data from these computer models, has confirmed that, if the information had been processed,…

Materials Sciences

Road to the Development of an Instant-on PC

A group headed by Dr. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, a Principal Investigator at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA; Director-General:…

Environmental Conservation

Roads Threaten Serengeti Migration, Study Reveals Insights

The study by John Fryxell, a Guelph integrative biology professor, and four other scientists from the United States and Canada appears in a recent issue of…

Health & Medicine

New Global Classification for Lung Adenocarcinoma Unveiled

Three of the world's top lung associations have published a new international multidisciplinary classification of lung adenocarcinoma, the first revision to…

Life & Chemistry

Circulating DNA Levels Linked to Faster Lung Cancer Progression

High levels of circulating DNA may indicate faster progression of lung cancer and lower overall survival, according to a study published in the February…

Health & Medicine

Tonsillectomy’s Unexpected Role in Childhood Weight Gain

Pediatric obesity has increased overwhelmingly over the last 20 years, with recent data suggesting that as many as 33 percent of American children are…

Health & Medicine

Repeat MRI Screening Reduces False Positives in Breast Cancer

While MRI can be more effective than mammography at identifying suspicious areas of the breast, it is not always able to distinguish between cancerous and…

Studies and Analyses

Video games are good for girls — if parents play along

Researchers from Brigham Young University's School of Family Life conducted a study on video games and children between 11 and 16 years old. They found that…

Studies and Analyses

Study Links Youth Pitching to Serious Injuries in Baseball

“The study proved a direct link between innings pitched in youth and adolescent baseball and serious pitching injuries. It highlights the need for parents and…

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