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Deaf Students Test Sign Language Accessibility via Mobile Phones

“This is the first study of how deaf people in the United States use mobile video phones,” said project leader Eve Riskin, a UW professor of electrical…

Life & Chemistry

SSRIs Show Greater Cellular Impact Than Previously Understood

A new discovery about selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) suggests that these drugs, which are used to treat mental health disorders like…

Health & Medicine

VCU Massey Research Finds New Link between Inflammation and Cancer

In an article published in the June issue of Nature, VCU Massey scientists Sarah Spiegel, Ph.D., and Tomasz Kordula, Ph.D., and their co-authors examine how…

Life & Chemistry

Mayo's 'smart' adult stem cells repair hearts

Mayo Clinic investigators, with Belgian collaborators, have demonstrated that rationally “guided” human adult stem cells can effectively heal, repair and…

Environmental Conservation

Coral Mortality Soars After Bleaching in Indonesia

The Wildlife Conservation Society today released initial field observations that indicate that a dramatic rise in the surface temperature in Indonesian waters…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough Screen Aids Copper Deficiency Patients’ Hope

Copper deficiency diseases can be devastating. Symptoms can range from crippling neurological degeneration in Menkes disease – a classic copper deficiency…

Health & Medicine

Language as a Window Into Sociability

People with Williams syndrome-known for their indiscriminate friendliness and ease with strangers-process spoken language differently from people with autism…

Life & Chemistry

Predicting Nanoparticle Interactions in Human Bodies

NC State researchers Dr. Jim Riviere, Burroughs Wellcome Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology and director of the university’s Center for Chemical…

Life & Chemistry

Scripps Researchers Discover Protein Linked to Cocaine Addiction

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have identified a protein that may act as the trigger controlling the addictive impact of…

Life & Chemistry

Bacteria Breakthrough: Discovering Marine Microbes’ “Nose”

A team of marine microbiologists at Newcastle University have discovered for the first time that bacteria have a molecular “nose” that is able to detect…

Life & Chemistry

Nanoparticles Deliver Drugs Directly to Tumors via Immune Cells

Clinical trials using patients' own immune cells to target tumors have yielded promising results. However, this approach usually works only if the patients…

Studies and Analyses

NIH Study Reveals Key Protein’s Role in Cocaine Addiction

A regulatory protein best known for its role in a rare genetic brain disorder also may play a critical role in cocaine addiction, according to a recent study…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers discover genetic link between immune system, Parkinson's disease

The study was conducted by the NeuroGenetics Research Consortium, an international team of researchers led by Haydeh Payami, research scientist at the New York…

Physics & Astronomy

Infrared Laser Boosts Heart Rate: New Research Insights

Love, exercise and, new research shows, an infrared laser can make a heart beat faster.Scientists at Case Western Reserve University and Vanderbilt University…

Life & Chemistry

Predicting Nanoparticle Reactions in the Human Body

NC State researchers Dr. Jim Riviere, Burroughs Wellcome Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology and director of the university's Center for Chemical…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Discovered Linked to Kabuki Syndrome Causes

Using a new, rapid and less expensive DNA sequencing strategy, scientists have discovered genetic alterations that account for most cases of Kabuki syndrome, a…

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