A new study investigated whether increasing the frequency of physical activity intervention to twice daily…
Month: July 2016
Tunable wetting and adhesion of graphene demonstrated
Researchers have demonstrated doping-induced tunable wetting and adhesion of graphene, revealing new and unique opportunities…
Critical care health care professionals have high rates of burnout syndrome
A new report on burnout syndrome in critical care health care professionals gives key stakeholders…
How cooperation emerges in competing populations
Social behavior like reaching a consensus is a matter of cooperation. However, individuals in populations…
Like humans, lowly cockroach uses a GPS to get around, scientists find
Rats, men and cockroaches appear to have a similar GPS in their heads that allows…
Cancer cell lines predict drug response and accelerate personalized medicine
Research has shown that patient-derived cancer cell lines harbor most of the same genetic changes…
How the ‘graying biomedical workforce’ affects scientific funding in the US
As a result of the ‘graying of the biomedical workforce’ in the United States, many…
Why architects should let the microbes in
Architectural design is often concerned with energy efficiency or aesthetics, not microbial exposure. But, in…
High blood pressure by itself is not necessarily an emergency
Visits to emergency departments for patients with hypertension increased by 64 percent between 2002 and…
Effect of cholesterol medicine on inflammatory diseases mapped
The cholesterol medicine simvastatin, which is one of the most commonly used pharmaceuticals in the…