Efforts to keep hospital patients safe and continually improve the overall results of health care can't work unless medical centers figure out a way to get physicians more involved in the process.
Feb 1, 2011
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found a better way to create induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells -- adult cells reprogrammed with the properties of embryonic stem cells -- from a small blood sample.
Feb 1, 2011
The therapeutic vaccines are a priority research line of the HIVACAT, the catalan programme for the development of therapeutic vaccines and prevention against…
Feb 1, 2011
Reston, Va. (February 1, 2011) -- Positron emission tomography (PET) can image metabolic changes following treatment with the protein kinase inhibitor…
Feb 1, 2011
ATLANTA -- February 1, 2011 -- While the overall death rate for cancer continues to drop among African Americans, the group continues to have higher death rates and shorter survival of any racial and ethnic group in the U.S.
Jan 31, 2011
PITTSBURGH -- University of Pittsburgh researchers have grown arteries that exhibit the elasticity of natural blood vessels at the highest levels reported, a…
Jan 31, 2011
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- -- Inspired by the popular confidence trick known as "shell game," researchers at UC Santa Barbara have demonstrated the ability to…
Jan 31, 2011
Boston, MA -- Scientists have found that free radicals (unstable molecules that cause the death of cells as the body ages) may also cause the damage in the…
Jan 31, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS -- A School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis biophysicist has developed a new method to identify communication pathways connecting distant regions within proteins.
Jan 31, 2011
If you think histamines are your nemesis during allergy season, here's something that might change your perspective.
Jan 31, 2011
From the highest mountaintop comes a new research report in the FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) that gets to the bottom of what happens to the hearts of…
Jan 31, 2011
The ability of some forms of plankton and bacteria to build an extra natural layer of nanoparticle-like armour has inspired chemists at the University of…
Jan 31, 2011
The endothelium is the inner lining of our blood vessels and normal functions of endothelial cells include enabling coagulation, platelet adhesion and immune function.
Jan 31, 2011
Cancer researchers have discovered an important protein, produced naturally inside cells, that appears to suppress the growth of prostate cancer cells in the laboratory.
Jan 31, 2011
