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Medical News Accentuate the Positive to Reduce Risk of Chronic Disease People who experience not just positive emotions but a diversity of positive emotions appear to have lower levels of systemic inflammation, which may reduce their risk for chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, according to research pub... – American Psychological Association (APA) Emotion. Embargo expired on 22-Jun-2017 at 09:00 ET Researchers Create a ‘Rosetta Stone’ to Decode Immune Recognition St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have developed an algorithm that predicts T cell recognition of antigens and sets the stage to more effectively harness the immune system – St. Jude Children's Research Hospital “'Quantifiable predictive features define epitope-specific T cell receptor repertoires” Nature. Embargo expired on 21-Jun-2017 at 13:00 ET What Percentage of ALS Is Genetic? Up to 90 percent of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) report that they have no family history of the disease. Now, new research has found approximately 17 percent of such ALS cases may be caused by a gene mutation, according to a study ... – American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Embargo expired on 21-Jun-2017 at 16:00 ET Parkinson’s Is Partly an Autoimmune Disease, Study Finds Researchers have found the first direct evidence that autoimmunity plays a role in Parkinson’s disease, suggesting that immunosuppressants might play a role in treatment. – Columbia University Medical Center Nature, June 21, 2017 Embargo expired on 21-Jun-2017 at 13:00 ET Identified Brain Circuitry Bridges Neural and Behavioral Roles in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Specific cerebral circuitry bridges chemical changes deep in the brain and the more outward behavioral expressions associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which could lead to more objective biomarkers for the disorder, according to a c... – NYU Langone Medical Center New England Journal of Medicine Embargo expired on 21-Jun-2017 at 17:00 ET Texas Medicaid Family Planning Proposal Threatens Women’s Access to Preventive Care A Texas 1115 Medicaid family planning demonstration proposal that would tie coverage to an exclusion of Planned Parenthood would severely constrain access for covered women, thereby defeating, rather than advancing, Medicaid’s core objectives. – George Washington University Researchers Recommend Specific Diabetes Medications to Protect Bone Health Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and osteoporosis often coexist in patients, but managing both conditions can be a challenge. A comprehensive review published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism highlights the most effect... – Endocrine Society Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, June-2017 Molecular Test for Common Causes of Vaginitis Receives FDA Approval Johns Hopkins researchers report that a molecular diagnostic test accurately distinguishes among the three most common causes of vaginitis, an inflammation of vaginal tissue they say accounts for millions of visits to medical clinics and offices in ... – Johns Hopkins Medicine Obstetrics & Gynecology New Inhibitor Drug Shows Promise in Relapsed Leukemia A new drug shows promise in its ability to target one of the most common and sinister mutations of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn’s Abramson Cance... – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania CA100632 Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Preserves Memory and Protects Brain Against Alzheimer's Disease, New Research at Temple Shows The Mediterranean diet, rich in plant-based foods, is associated with a variety of health benefits, including a lower incidence of dementia. – Temple University Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology Head Impact Exposure Increases as Youth Football Players Get Older, Bigger Youth football players are exposed to more and more forceful head impacts as they move up in age- and weight-based levels of play, according to researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. – Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Journal of Neurotrauma, June-2017 UTHealth’s Lenard Lichtenberger Tests Effectiveness of Lipidic Aspirin Formulation Against Cancer Scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) are testing the effectiveness of a soy-enriched aspirin formulation designed to fight colorectal cancer with fewer side effects. – University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Underused Cancer Test Could Improve Treatment for Thousands, Mayo Clinic Study Finds A simple blood test could improve treatment for more than 1 in 6 stage 2 colon cancer patients, suggests new Mayo Clinic research. The researchers also discovered that many patients who could benefit from the test likely aren’t receiving it. The fi... – Mayo Clinic Stem Cells Try, But Fail, to Repair ACL Injuries A discovery, described in a recent study by researchers at Beaumont Health, revealed ACL tears send a signal to stem cells throughout our body. This could lead to future breakthroughs to enable stem cells to repair injuries and reduce development of ... – Beaumont Health Is There an Alternative to Disposable Diapers? A pediatric infectious disease specialist at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and a pathologist and medical microbiologist at the Keck School of Medicine of USC published a perspective paper in Pediatrics, about an age-old practice now known as elim... – Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Pediatrics, June-2017 Perceptions About Body Image Linked to Increased Alcohol, Tobacco Use for Teens Virginia Ramseyer-Winter, assistant professor of social work, found negative body image is associated with increased tobacco and alcohol use, with implications for both young men and women. – University of Missouri Health Study Answers Why Ketamine Helps Depression, Offers Target for Safer Therapy UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have identified a key protein that helps trigger ketamine’s rapid antidepressant effects in the brain, a crucial step to developing alternative treatments to the controversial drug being dispensed in a grow... – UT Southwestern Medical Center Nature, June-2017 Single Fungus Amplifies Crohn’s Disease Symptoms A microscopic fungus called Candida tropicalis triggered gut inflammation and exacerbated symptoms of Crohn’s disease, in a recent study conducted at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. – Case Western Reserve University P30DK097948 HIV-Positive Women with Cytomegalovirus Likelier to Pass Virus That Causes AIDS to Infant HIV-positive women with CMV in their urine at the time of labor and delivery are more than five times likelier than HIV-positive women without CMV to transmit HIV to their infants. The research also found that they are nearly 30 times likelier to tra... – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences Clinical Infectious Diseases Battling Infectious Diseases with 3-D Protein Structures An international team of scientists including the Computation Institute has determined the 3-D atomic structures of more than 1,000 proteins that are potential targets for drugs and vaccines to combat some of the world’s most dangerous emerging and... – Computation Institute A Simple Breath Test Could Be the Next Evolution in Breast Cancer Diagnostics USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center is actively recruiting for a clinical trial that seeks to eliminate unnecessary testing for breast cancer with a simple breath test. – Keck Medicine of USC R44CA203019 Expert on Legionnaires’ Disease Urges People to Take Caution This Summer After several people in New York City were diagnosed with Legionnaire’s disease in less than two weeks, an expert at New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM) urges people to take caution. Expert Available – New York Institute of Technology FAU Launches Unique Dementia Prevention Program and Center Is it possible to prevent dementia from happening in the first place? That’s what a leading FAU neuroscientist plans to prove using an innovative approach that defies the idea that “one-size-fits-all” when it comes to battling Alzheimer’s dis... – Florida Atlantic University includes video David A. Sullivan, M.S., PH.D., FARVO, Receives the American Optometric Association’s Dr. Donald R. Korb Award for Excellence David A. Sullivan, M.S., Ph.D., FARVO, Senior Scientist at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School is the recipient of the 2017 Dr. Donald R. Korb Award for Exce... – Massachusetts Eye and Ear Josephine P. Briggs, MD, to Lead the Journal of American Society of Nephrology’s Incoming Editorial Team Josephine P. Briggs, MD, begins her term on January 1, 2018 as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of American Society of Nephrology (JASN), considered the leading specialty journal in nephrology. – American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Rush University Medical Center Again Honored for Equity of Care For the second time in three years, the American Hospital Association has chosen Rush University Medical Center an honoree for its annual Equity of Care Award, which recognizes hospitals and health systems for their efforts to reduce health care disp... – Rush University Medical Center Science News Study Assesses Risk in a Changing Insurance Market for Driverless Vehicles Despite projections, insurers will likely play a key role in supporting the safe deployment, adoption and sustainability of driverless cars. The relatively unknown nature, likelihood and extent of driverless accidents presents risk management challen... – Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Society for Risk Analysis conference Embargo expired on 21-Jun-2017 at 10:00 ET Parents of Newborn Daughters Take Fewer Risks Study Suggests This study explores the effect of learning a child’s gender on parents’ attitudes towards risky behaviors. In this study, the first of its kind, the authors gathered prenatal and post-birth data from the pediatric wards of hospitals in both the ... – Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) conference of the Society for Risk Analysis Embargo expired on 21-Jun-2017 at 10:00 ET Yarraman Flu or Horse Flu? Words and Graphics Influence Willingness to Vaccinate “Yarraman flu is a virus quickly infecting the US…” The mock announcement was enough to make readers worry. But when the name of the hypothetical illness was changed to “horse flu”, readers reported being less motivated to get a vaccine tha... – University of Utah Health Emerging Infectious Disease Embargo expired on 21-Jun-2017 at 12:00 ET New Measures of Aging May Show 70 Is the New 60 A new Stony Brook University-led study uses new measures of aging to scientifically illustrate that one’s actual age is not necessarily the best measure of human aging itself, particularly in relation to population aging. – Stony Brook University PLOS ONE Embargo expired on 21-Jun-2017 at 14:00 ET An End to Population Aging in China, Germany, USA New measures of aging, combined with UN population projections, show that population aging is likely to end before 2100 in China, Germany, and the USA. – International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis PLOS ONE Embargo expired on 21-Jun-2017 at 14:00 ET includes video Hubble Captures Massive Dead Disk Galaxy That Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution Astronomers combined the power of a “natural lens” in space with the capability of the Hubble Space Telescope to make a surprising discovery—the first example of a compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stopped making stars... – Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Nature, Jun-2017 Embargo expired on 21-Jun-2017 at 13:00 ET Australian Origin Likely for Iconic New Zealand Tree Ancestors of the iconic New Zealand Christmas Tree, Pōhutukawa, may have originated in Australia, new fossil research from the University of Adelaide suggests. – University of Adelaide American Journal of Botany How Protons Move Through a Fuel Cell Hydrogen is regarded as the energy source of the future: It is produced with solar power and can be used to generate heat and electricity in fuel cells. Empa researchers have now succeeded in decoding the movement of hydrogen ions in crystals – a k... – Empa Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology Nature Communications, June-2016 Adulthood Wellbeing Lower for Single-Parent Kids – New Research People who grew up in single-parent families have lower levels of wellbeing and life satisfaction in adulthood, according to new research by the University of Warwick. – University of Warwick PLOS ONE, June 2017 How Did Bird Babysitting Co-Ops Evolve? It's easy to make up a story to explain an evolved trait; proving that's what happened is much harder. Here scientists test ideas about cooperative breeding in birds and find a solution that resolves earlier disagreements. – Washington University in St. Louis PLOS Biology, June 21, 2017 New Research From University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Could Prevent Unnecessary Beach Closings New research shows E. coli may not be the best indicator of recent fecal pollution because it can survive and proliferate in beach sand. Using it as a warning sign to close beaches may result in more closings than are actually needed. – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Researchers Find New Mechanism for Genome Regulation The same mechanisms that separate mixtures of oil and water may also help the organization of an unusual part of our DNA called heterochromatin, according to a new study by Berkeley Lab researchers. They found that liquid-liquid phase separation help... – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Nature, June 21, 2017 Burn Without Concern The USDA Forest Service in the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness Area (BWCWA) will continue to use controlled burns without worrying about fish health in associated watersheds. – American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) Journal of Environmental Quality, May 18, 2017 A Simple Solution to Protect Critical Infrastructure DHS S&T has a solution for stopping flooding in subway tunnels in the form of a giant inflatable plug that will seal them off and stop water from flowing throughout the subway system into stations and other subway lines. – Homeland Security's Science Array Technology Directorate includes video Southern Research Probe of Zika Virus Looks Into ‘Rebound Virus’ Southern Research scientists are investigating how the Zika virus is able to find a safe harbor in an infected host’s tissue and stage a rebound weeks after the virus was seemingly cleared by the immune system. – Southern Research Military Kids Use Virtual, Augmented Reality to STEMulate Learning Donning high-tech virtual and augmented reality simulators, while testing out revolutionary modular prosthetic limbs and interacting with experts in the field of science, technology, engineering, and math, a group of about 23 middle school-aged milit... – Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) includes video Upgrades at Sandia’s Tonopah Test Range Help Weapons Testing It’s been a challenge for Sandia National Laboratories' Tonopah Test Range to keep decades-old equipment running while gathering detailed information required for 21st century non-nuclear testing. The Nevada test range has changed the analog brains... – Sandia National Laboratories Oxygen: The Jekyll and Hyde of Biofuels Scientists are devising ways to protect plants, biofuels and, ultimately, the atmosphere itself from damage caused by an element that sustains life on earth. – Department of Energy, Office of Science System Detects & Translates Sarcasm on Social Media Researchers have developed a machine translation system for interpreting sarcastic statements in social media. It could one day help people on the autism spectrum, who often have difficulty interpreting sarcasm, irony and humor. – American Technion Society Biologist Developed New Method to Calculate Populations of Elusive Species An innovative new method of estimating the density of snake populations without employing the capture-mark-recapture technique. – University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Throwing Shade: Urban Climatologist Talks “Cool” Project Urban climatologist Ariane Middel is developing a new tool to stay cool. Expert Available – Arizona State University (ASU) includes video Temperatures Rising: The Current Heat Spell Is Needed for the Monsoon Arizona's heat wave, while a nuisance, is needed for the coming monsoon, says ASU expert Expert Available – Arizona State University (ASU) USC to Lead IARPA Quantum Computing Project USC will lead a consortium of universities and private companies to build quantum computers that are at least 10,000 times faster than the best state-of-the-art classical computers.Such high-powered machines could help facilitate the solution of some... – University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering UF Soil Scientist Selected ‘Fellow’ in National Society Sabine Grunwald likes to get her hands dirty, and in the process, try to conserve the environment. – University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Nova Southeastern University Continues to Oversee National Coral Reef Fellowship Program NSU will be overseeing the National Coral Reef Management Fellowship Program with NOAA and U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs – Nova Southeastern University Three Honored by Society for Risk Analysis European Chapter The Society for Risk Analysis European Chapter (SRA-E) awarded three prestigious scholarships at its Annual Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. These awards recognize individuals for their outstanding contributions to the study and science of risk analys... – Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Risk Analysis: An International Journal KU Engineering Grad Loral O’Hara Becomes New NASA Astronaut O’Hara becomes the fourth graduate of KU to become a NASA astronaut, joining Joe Engle, Ron Evans and current KU Professor of Physics and Astronomy Steven Hawley. – University of Kansas Geography Faculty Members Earn NSF Grant to Study Oak Forests Three geography faculty members have received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) award of $232,099 for a collaborative research project to assess the environmental and human drivers and the cultural dimen... – State University of New York at Geneseo NSF award #1660388 The Advent of Intelligent Robots and Their Role in Society Through the Integrative Seed Grant Program, offered through the Penn State Office for General Education, Alan Wagner, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, will develop and teach a course titled "Robots and Their Role in Society." – Penn State College of Engineering Lifestyle & Social Sciences What Goes On in Class WhatsApp Groups Class WhatsApp groups provide young people with space where they feel able to develop closer and more open relationships that allow them to express themselves in ways they couldn’t in the non-virtual domain. This is the finding of a new study at th... – University of Haifa Eating Your Feelings? The Link Between Job Stress, Junk Food and Sleep Stress during the workday can lead to overeating and unhealthy food choices at dinnertime, but there could be a buffer to this harmful pattern. – Michigan State University Journal of Applied Psychology Climate Change Label Leads to Climate Science Acceptance In the heels of President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, a new Cornell University study finds that labels matter when it comes to acceptance of climate science. – Cornell University Climate Change, May 2017 Eastern Philosophies, Western Strategies: Strategic Intuition Professor L.J. Bourgeois' new course, "Strategic Intuition and Eastern Philosophy", promotes the awareness of Eastern philosophy's effect on global economy aside from the linear analytics of Western economics. – University of Virginia Darden School of Business Still Taking Paris Seriously Several social scientists explain why, despite the US exit from the Paris climate agreement, policy analysis reveals states and agencies continue to take climate change seriously. – Michigan Technological University Look Inside Your Own Pantry or Fridge to Find the Top Culprit of Food Waste Did you know you throw out about 20 pounds of food every month? Nearly 40 percent of the food produced in the U.S. goes to waste. Iowa State University experts have tips for reducing waste at home, and look at how the food service industry is working... – Iowa State University Smithsonian Releases Season Two of Sidedoor Podcast "Sidedoor," the Smithsonian's podcast, returns today to begin its second season. The podcast transports audiences behind the scenes with stories that can't always be told through a museum exhibit. – Smithsonian Institution UIC Experts Publish Papers on Chicago Public Schools Peer-reviewed special issue on Chicago Public Schools edited with studies by UIC Education experts. – University of Illinois at Chicago