Study finds no testosterone changes in eSports gamers Players of the competitive eSports video game League of Legends showed no change in testosterone during game play, UNLV researchers have found. Feb 16, 2018 0 49
Multidisciplinary team completes first-ever EXIT to ventricular pacing procedure Researchers at Children's Hospital Colorado (Children's Colorado) have completed the first-ever EXIT (Ex Utero Intrapartum Treatment) to ventricular pacing procedure. The patient, a 36-week fetus, who suffered from complete ... Feb 16, 2018 0 30
Team reports progress in pursuit of sickle cell cure Scientists have successfully used gene editing to repair 20 to 40 percent of stem and progenitor cells taken from the peripheral blood of patients with sickle cell disease, according to Rice University bioengineer Gang Bao. Feb 16, 2018 0 60
Researcher explains how statistics, neuroscience improve anesthesiology It's intuitive that anesthesia operates in the brain, but the standard protocol among anesthesiologists when monitoring and dosing patients during surgery is to rely on indirect signs of arousal like movement, and changes ... Feb 16, 2018 0 77
Scientists produce human intestinal lining that re-creates living tissue inside organ-chip Investigators have demonstrated how cells of a human intestinal lining created outside an individual's body mirror living tissue when placed inside microengineered Intestine-Chips, opening the door to personalized testing ... Feb 16, 2018 0 361
Link between hallucinations and dopamine not such a mystery, finds study Researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) found that people with schizophrenia who experience auditory hallucinations tend to hear what they expect, ... Feb 16, 2018 0 660
Euthanasia dispute in Belgium: When do doctors cross a line? A disputed case of euthanasia in Belgium, involving the death of a dementia patient who never formally asked to die, has again raised concerns about weak oversight in a country with some of the world's most liberal euthanasia ... Feb 16, 2018 0 42
Flu season shows signs of leveling off This nasty flu season, which has been worsening for months, may finally be leveling off. Feb 16, 2018 0 35
Lab-grown human cerebellar cells yield clues to autism Increasing evidence has linked autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with dysfunction of the brain's cerebellum, but the details have been unclear. In a new study, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital used stem cell technology ... Feb 16, 2018 0 315
Immune signature predicts asthma susceptibility Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease driven by the interplay of genetics, environmental factors and a diverse cast of immune cells. In their latest study, researchers at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (LJI) ... Feb 16, 2018 0 71
