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Location: Cambridge, United States
High blood pressure is a common risk factor for heart attacks, strokes and
aneurysms, so diagnosing and monitoring it are critically important. However,
getting reliable blood pressure readings is not always easy.
Visits to the...
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
Despite medicine's inestimable progress over the past century, surgery can
still leave scars that look more appropriate to Frankenstein's monster than to
the beneficiary of a precise, modern operation. But in the Wellman Center for...
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Location: Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, United States
Using new techniques for rapidly scanning the human genome, researchers have
associated levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, two fats in the blood, to 18
genetic variants, six of which represent new
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Location: University of Minnesota, United States
University of Minnesota
researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory.
By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the
University of Minnesota...
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Location: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, United States
A new study provides the first evidence that people with higher body mass
index (BMI) may have a greater response to ozone than leaner people. Short-term
exposure to atmospheric ozone has long been known to cause a temporary drop in
lung...
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Location: Massachusetts General Hospital,55 Fruit Street, GRJ-12-1206, United States
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) surgeons have performed the first total hip replacement using a joint socket lined with a novel material invented at the MGH. An advance over first-generation highly crosslinked polyethylene, which was also...
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Location: MIT / The Picower Institute,617-253-6461,
77 Massachusetts Avenue,Building 46 Room 5295 ,Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, United States
A group of enzymes known as sirtuins have gained fame in recent years for
their ability to slow the aging process. Now, researchers at MIT's Picower
Institute for Learning and Memory and Harvard Medical School report that one
particular...
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Location: 77 massachusetts avenue ,e25-519,cambridge, ma 02139-4307, United States
Large mammals--humans, monkeys, and even
cats--have brains with a somewhat mysterious feature: The outermost layer has a
folded surface. Understanding the functional significance of these folds is one
of the big open questions in...
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Location: Health Sciences Campus, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033. (323) 442-2000, United States
A study led by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Harvard Medical School has identified seven genetic risk factors – DNA sequences carried by some people but not others – that predict risk for
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Location: EMBL Monterotondo,
Adriano Buzzati-Traverso Campus, Via Ramarini 32, 00016 Monterotondo, Italy
It's a massive understatement to say that stem cells have picky tastes. These choosy micrometer-sized underpinnings of life have long maintained an air of mystery about their predilections, initially refusing to rest on anything but a comfortable...
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Location: Troy, NY 12180, United States
National Cancer Institute and the Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) at Rensselaer, which is funded by the National Science Foundation has developed Machine Learning , A new computer-based technique could eliminate hours...
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