Inside a narrow glass tube sits a substance that can harm or cure, depending on how you use it. It gives off a faint blue glow, a sign of its radioactivity. While the energy and subatomic particles it emits can damage human ...
Materials Science
Jun 21, 2018
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Despite increasing numbers of underrepresented minority (URM) trainees in the biomedical sciences, there is a persistent shortage of URM faculty who are involved in basic biomedical research at medical schools.
Social Sciences
Jan 17, 2018
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Light can be used as an accurate method to control gene expression, shows groundbreaking optogenetics study by University of Colorado, Duke University and University of Helsinki researchers.
Biochemistry
Apr 21, 2017
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Social scientists routinely promise confidentiality to those who participate in their research. They tell participants that they will not inform anyone else about their involvement with the research or they will not reveal ...
Social Sciences
Dec 9, 2016
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IBM today announced at the Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting (RSNA 2016) it will preview new imaging solutions from Watson Health and Merge Healthcare (Merge; an IBM Company) designed to help healthcare ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 30, 2016
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The next medical doctor to spend a year at the Concordia research base in Antarctica arrived this week by aircraft. Carole Dangoisse from Belgium will live and work at the station conducting space research on and with the ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 25, 2016
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Nobel laureate Steven Chu will receive an honorary degree from University of Massachusetts Lowell this week.
Other
Nov 13, 2016
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Despite steady progress in detection and treatment in recent decades, cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the United States, cutting short the lives of approximately 500,000 people each year.
Computer Sciences
Nov 9, 2016
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There's a reason "flu season" has earned its miserable prominence: When the flu is severe, it's difficult to avoid.
Computer Sciences
Apr 14, 2016
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Apple today announced advancements to the open source ResearchKit framework that bring genetic data and a series of medical tests typically conducted in an exam room to iPhone apps. Medical researchers are adopting these ...
Software
Mar 22, 2016
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