Researchers Develop New Method to Generate Human Antibodies
An international team of scientists has developed a method to rapidly produce specific human antibodies in the laboratory. The technique, which will be described in a paper to be published July 24 in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, could speed ...
– The Rockefeller University Press
Journal of Experimental Medicine, August 7th, 2017; FC001035; UM1AI100663; 228966; DP2 OD020839; U24 AI11862-01; P50 HG006193; 03629000189; DP2DA042422...
Embargo expired on 24-Jul-2017 at 09:00 ET
Success at the High School, Collegiate and Professional Levels Not Necessarily Related to Early Sports Specialization, Say Researchers
Specializing in one sport early in a child’s athletic career is often touted as a way to gain that elusive college scholarship or even go on to the pros. However, researchers presenting their work at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medi...
– American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM)
AOSSM 2017 Annual Meeting
Embargo expired on 23-Jul-2017 at 06:00 ET
Sports Specialization May Lead to More Lower Extremity Injuries
Better education to coaches and parents about the effects of single sport specialization is critical, say researchers presenting their work today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine’s Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada.
– American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM)
AOSSM 2017 Annual Meeting
Embargo expired on 23-Jul-2017 at 06:00 ET
Patients with Irreparable Rotator Cuff Tears May Have Surgical Option, New Research Shows
The arthroscopic superior capsule reconstruction (SCR) surgical technique can offer patients with irreparable rotator cuff repairs the opportunity to return to sports and jobs that require heavy physical work, as presented in research today at the Am...
– American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM)
AOSSM 2017 Annual Meeting
Embargo expired on 22-Jul-2017 at 06:00 ET
Patients Taking Opioids Prior to ACL Surgery More Likely to Be on Pain Medications Longer
More than 130,000 Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) surgeries take place each year with the majority of patients not requiring pain medication after three months post-operatively. However, researchers presenting their work at the American Orthopaedic ...
– American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM)
AOSSM 2017 Annual Meeting
Embargo expired on 22-Jul-2017 at 06:00 ET
Professor Appointed to Key Role to Improve Treatment for Rheumatic Conditions
A professor at the University of Birmingham has been appointed to a key role focusing on developing research to improve treatment and outcomes for patients with arthritis.
– University of Birmingham
Embargo expired on 24-Jul-2017 at 08:10 ET
Breast Cancer Patients Can Use Antiperspirants During Radiotherapy
Women undergoing daily radiation therapy for breast cancer are commonly told they should not use antiperspirant for fear that it could cause greater radiation damage to the skin, but a new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University ...
– Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Civil Unrest After Freddie Gray’s Death Harms Health in Baltimore Mothers
The April 2015 civil unrest associated with Freddie Gray’s death while in police custody caused a significant spike of stress in mothers of young children living in affected neighborhoods, according to new research from the University of Maryland S...
– University of Maryland Medical Center/School of Medicine
American Journal of Public Health Aug 2017
Ultrathin Device Harvests Electricity From Human Motion
Imagine slipping into a jacket, shirt or skirt that powers your cell phone, fitness tracker and other personal electronic devices as you walk, wave and even when you are sitting down. A new, ultrathin energy harvesting system developed at Vanderbilt ...
– Vanderbilt University
ACS Energy Letters

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Drowning While Away From the Water
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), every day, about 10 people die from drowning. Two out of these 10 are children aged 14 or younger, and drowning ranks fifth among the leading causes of unintentional injury death in ...
– Texas A&M University
CRI Scientists Increase Our Understandingof the Genetic Basis of Neuropsychiatric Disorders
A study by scientists at the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) is providing insight into the genetic basis of neuropsychiatric disorders. In this research, the first mouse model of a mutation in the ARID1B gene w...
– UT Southwestern Medical Center
eLife, Jul-2017
Summer Arts Program Influences Student to Attend SU
Georgia Fried is into roller derby, the contact sport on roller skates, so she knows all about how things can get bumped. Such was the case when she made her college decision.
– Salisbury University
Twin Breathes Easier After Throat Surgery
Life did not start out easily for Emmett Seymer. He and his twin brother, Dashiell, were born at 29 weeks in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Emmett spent the first 30 days of his life on a ventilator because his lungs were underdeveloped. Doctors at the hos...
– Seattle Children's Hospital
Neurology Chair Speaks at International Stroke Symposium
Last month, Salvador Cruz-Flores, M.D., spoke at the 1st Regional Symposium on Stroke in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The symposium, jointly organized by the American Stroke Association (ASA), World Stroke Association, and Iberoamerican Stroke Organizati...
– Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso
First Issue of Structural Heart: The Journal of the Heart Team is Now Available
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) is pleased to announce that the first issue of Structural Heart: The Journal of the Heart Team is now available online.
– Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF)
What Causes Sensitive Teeth?
An ice cream cone on a hot July day can be a tasty way to beat the heat, but if you’re one of the millions of people who have sensitive teeth, then that cold treat can be a real pain. So, what causes your teeth to fear the sweet embrace of cold, de...
– Texas A&M University
Advancing Access to Mental Health Care in the U.S. And Around the World
As a child, Francine Conway often walked down dirt roads in Guyana to fetch water and wash clothes in a river. Today, she is the first African-American dean of one of the world’s leading professional schools of psychology: the Graduate School of Ap...
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– Rutgers University
NETRF Announces New Grants for Neuroendocrine Cancer Research
Nonprofit NET Research Foundation announces grants up to $1.2 million for neuroendocrine tumor research (to fund basic, translational, or clinical studies) to improve care for uncommon cancer type.
– NET (Neuroendocrine Tumor) Research Foundation

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Wayne State Receives $1.9 Million NIH Grant to Research and Find Treatments for Genetic Disease That Causes Blindness
A team of Wayne State University researchers recently received a $1.9 million grant from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health to better understand leukodystrophies (LD) and genetic Leukoencephalopathies (gLE), rare genetic ...
– Wayne State University Division of Research
National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health, EY026551
“Hindcasting” Study Investigates the Extreme 2013 Colorado Flood
Using a publicly available climate model, Berkeley Lab researchers “hindcast” the conditions that led to the Sept. 9-16, 2013 flooding around Boulder, Colo. and found that climate change attributed to human activity made the storm much more sever...
– Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Weather and Climate Extremes
Physics of Bubbles Could Explain Language Patterns
Language patterns could be predicted by simple laws of physics, a new study has found. Dr James Burridge from the University of Portsmouth has published a theory using ideas from physics to predict where and how dialects occur.
– University of Portsmouth
Phys. Rev. X 7, 031008
NUS Engineers Achieve Significant Breakthrough in Spin Wave Based Information Processing Technology
A research team led by Professor Adekunle Adeyeye from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the NUS Faculty of Engineering, has recently achieved a significant breakthrough in spin wave information processing technology. His team ...
– National University of Singapore
Science Advances
Energy-Efficient Accelerator Was 50 Years in the Making
With the introduction of CBETA, the Cornell-Brookhaven ERL Test Accelerator, Cornell University and Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists are following up on the concept of energy-recovering particle accelerators first introduced by physicist Mau...
– Cornell University
In Saliva, Clues to a ‘Ghost’ Species of Ancient Human
In saliva, scientists have found hints that a “ghost” species of archaic humans may have contributed genetic material to ancestors of people living in Sub-Saharan Africa today. The research adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that sexu...
– University at Buffalo
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Technology That Connects Aging Adults in Rural Areas with Health Experts Improves Weight Loss
Melissa Ventura Marra, assistant professor of human nutrition and foods in the WVU Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, is part of a multistate research team that is evaluating how food security and lifestyle choices such as di...
– West Virginia University
DHS S&T Awards $749K to Evernym for Decentralized Key Management Research and Development
DHS S&T has awarded Salt Lake City-based startup Evernym a $749,000 Small Business Innovation Program (SBIR) award to develop an easy-to-use, decentralized mechanism for managing public and private keys needed for the secure and scalable deployment o...
– Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate
Construction Begins on International Mega-Science Experiment to Understand Neutrinos
In a unique groundbreaking ceremony held this afternoon at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, a group of dignitaries, scientists and engineers from around the world marked the start of construction of a massive internati...
– Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)
Higher Cognitive Abilities Linked to Greater Risk of Stereotyping, New Study Finds
People with higher cognitive abilities are more likely to learn and apply social stereotypes, finds a new study. The results, stemming from a series of experiments, show that those with higher cognitive abilities also more easily unlearn stereotypes ...
– New York University
Journal of Experimental Psychology
Stressed Out Kids?
A new, comprehensive Vanderbilt study published in "Psychological Bulletin" outlines which coping strategies work best for children and adolescents.
– Vanderbilt University
Compas, B. E., Jaser, S. S., Bettis, A. H., Watson, K. H., Gruhn, M. A., Dunbar, J. P., . . . Thigpen, J. C. (2017). Coping, Emo
Missouri S&T Chemistry Researcher Receives Prestigious Honor
Dr. Yinfa Ma, associate dean for research and external relations in the College of Arts, Sciences, and Business, was recently selected to be an American Chemical Society Fellow. He was one of only 65 scientists named to the 2017 class, and will be re...
– Missouri University of Science and Technology
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