Archive: 26/11/2018

Parents: Take a timeout before you force your child to apologize

Parents who force unremorseful kids to apologize to others before they're truly sorry may do more harm than good.

Nov 26, 2018

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Citrate-based biomaterial fuels bone healing with less rejection

A material based on a natural product of bones and citrus fruit, called citrate, provides the extra energy that stem cells need to form new bone tissue, according to a team of Penn State bioengineers. Their new understanding ...

Nov 26, 2018

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Targeting MC1R in metastatic melanoma

In 1960, scientists described the "Philadelphia chromosome" that causes chronic myeloid leukemia, and in 2001 the Food and Drug Administration approved the drug imatinib to disable the action of this cancer-causing genetic ...

Nov 26, 2018

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Mutations boost immunity: Toward a cancer vaccine

Despite significant advances in cancer research, the disease continues to exact a devastating toll. Because cancer is a disease of the body's own cells, which mutate and develop under evolutionary pressure, conventional treatments ...

Nov 26, 2018

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Does teen cannabis use lead to behavior problems—or vice versa?

More youth use cannabis than smoke cigarettes in the United States. In other parts of the world, cannabis use has become almost as regular as tobacco use among adolescents and young adults.

Nov 26, 2018

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Zebrafish help unlock mystery of motor neurone disease

Scientists from the University of Sheffield have successfully created zebrafish that carry the complex genetic change known to cause the most common genetic form of motor neurone disease (MND).

Nov 26, 2018

Improving medical device tracking a slow, imperfect process

For nearly two decades, health advocates have pushed to standardize the way medical devices are tracked and studied.

Nov 26, 2018

Parents learn, babies talk: How coaching moms and dads improves infants' language skills

When it comes to helping infants learn to talk, it's not just how much parents say, but how they say it.

Nov 26, 2018

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FDA to overhaul long-criticized medical device system

U.S. health officials said Monday they plan to overhaul the nation's decades-old system for approving most medical devices, which has long been criticized by experts for failing to catch problems with risky implants and medical ...

Nov 26, 2018

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Alcohol dependence, psychiatric disorders share genetic links

In the largest study of genetic factors linked to alcohol dependence, an international team of researchers identified a gene known to affect risk, and they determined that many other genes also contribute to risk for alcohol ...

Nov 26, 2018

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