T-ray breakthrough could make detecting disease far easier
...rily has a limited ability to allow T-rays to flow along it, but our idea was to overcome this by corrugating its surface with a series of grooves, in effect creating an artificial material or 'metamaterial' as far as the T-rays are concerned." "In this way, the T-rays can be focused to the tip of the wi...Pulsating gels could power tiny robots
...erial was spherically uniform and that waves moved along only in one direction. Those models can only predict how the material's volume will change how it will swell and shrink. To capture changes in the shape of the material requires two-dimensional calculations, which Balazs and Yashin used to create the...Federal government needs to take closer look at assisted living facilities
...g segment of residential care for the elderly. And along with their rise have come a host of health and care issues that need to be addressed by the federal government, according to an article in the Elder Law Journal published by the Illinois College of Law. By law, ALFs are not considered medical or men...Antiprotons 4 times more effective than protons for cell irradiation
... the fraction of surviving cells after irradiation along the path of the beam. The results showed that an...This significantly reduces the damage to the cells along the entrance channel of the beam for antiprotons compared to protons. Due to the antiproton's unsurp...Significant amount of binge eating occurs in restaurants
...rants continues to rise. This frequent dining out, along with the consumption of additional calories, could contribute to weight gain over time. Restaurants are high-risk food environments that may exacerbate uncontrolled eating and excessive intake."...Soot from wood stoves in developing world impacts global warming more than expected
...ater & People, an American nonprofit agency which, along with the Honduran Association for Development, helped facilitate this study. In most cases, these families can't afford or don't have access to electricity, gas or alternative fuel sources. "We expected field measurements to be different from lab me...Study finds race affects African American survival of breast cancer
... associated with unfavorable tumor biology, which, along with other factors, likely contributes to the lower rate of breast cancer survival among African-Americans. "These findings should prompt additional research on how we can improve outcomes for African-American patients by understanding and addressin...ADA applauds health claim for fluoridated bottled water
...ublic water systems that are fluoridated. The ADA, along with state and local dental societies, continues to work with federal, state, and local agencies to increase the number of communities benefiting from water fluoridation....Key to lung cancer chemo resistance revealed
...ng tissues from the same patients. NRF2 activity along with its cleansing proteins and enzymes were higher in tumor samples than normal cells, according to the researchers. Their cell culture tests also show that cancer cells with KEAP1 mutations are more resistant to chemotherapy drugs than normal lung...Study IDs protein that inhibits HIV from growing in cell cultures
...on have been studied for nearly a decade by Xiang, along with another study author Jack Stapleton, M.D., staff physician and researcher at the VA Iowa City Health Care System and professor of internal medicine at the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. "Identifying a specific protein ma...Read my lips: Not all fillers are safe for lip augmentation, rejuvenation
...mi-permanent fillers are best around the mouth and along the lip's border and help to redefine the edge and fill in lipstick and laugh lines. However, when semi-permanent fillers are injected into the inner lip, patients may experience a higher rate of complications like visible lumps and clumping. Since...Cincinnati Children's researchers publish findings on potential target for leukemia treatment
...cells critical to the immune system. The findings, along with other studies, suggest that RhoH GTPase may provide a target for therapeutic intervention in some types of leukemia. The paper is due to appear in an upcoming edition of the journal Nature Immunology and was recently posted in the advance online...Vision and hearing loss often occur together in older age
...8, average age 69.8) underwent a medical interview along with vision and hearing examinations. Among the participants, 178 (9.3 percent) had visual impairment (worse than 20/40 vision) without contacts or glasses and 56 (2.9 percent) had best-corrected visual impairment, meaning that their best vision wh...Eating walnuts with high-fat meals helps to protect arteries against short-term damage
...arch shows that consuming a handful of raw walnuts along with meals high in saturated fat appears to limit the ability of the harmful fat to damage arteries. Adding olive oil, however, does not provide the same type of vascular protection. The research, conducted at the University of Barcelona's Hospital ...Prescribe exercise for older adults for better health
... Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, along with experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The book (citation below), available as a PDF on the CDC web site, is called Growing Stronger: Strength Training for Older Adults, and contains detailed explanations and useful i...Julio Frenk should be the front-runner in elections for Director-General of the WHO
...rent manifestos, the candidate's signature issues, along with their skills, experience, and vision for WHO. He states that the Executive Board of WHO must be sure that candidates have the technical competence and administrative skills for the job before they evaluate their competing visions. The next Direc...Brain cell and face perception research wins Eppendorf/Science Prize
... as a set of face-specific rulers, measuring faces along multiple distinct dimensions," Tsao writes. "By combining the measurements of all these little rulers, it should be possible to reconstruct any face." Born in Changzhou, China, Tsao grew up in College Park, Maryland. She studied biology and mathemat...Long-term effects of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
...rhotic NASH is 'benign.'" They add that the study, along with previously published data, points to the necessity of studying the risk of increased cardiovascular deaths in NASH patients. They conclude that treating NASH is a "major unmet medical need," and that strategies for screening patients with risk f...Researchers seek to design first treatment for neuroAIDS
...ut to be GSK-3b inhibitors. Gelbard and Maggirwar; along with Giovanni Schifitto, M.D. associate professor of Neurology at the Medical Center; received in 1999 one of the first grants from the National Institutes of Mental Health designed to convert basic neuroscience into new neuroAIDS drugs. Based on th...... of Medicine $68 million over the next five years, along with The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Inst...nd the University of the Sciences of Philadelphia, along with eight other schools at Penn to form a truly interdisciplinary alliance to facilitate clinical a...