IMAGE: An image from a magnetohydrodynamic simulation by the Gamera project at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory shows bursty flows (in red and brown) in the plasma sheet. Rice University… view more Credit: K. Sorathia/JHUAPL HOUSTON – (Dec. 20, 2019)…
IMAGE: UTHealth’s Cynthia Ju, PhD view more Credit: UTHealth Tiny solutions are being sought for big liver problems by a scientist at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). Armed with two grants totaling…
High penKid® plasma levels identified all ED patients with hidden AKI and AKI at admission and reflected worsening of kidney function. penKid® point-of-care (POC) implementation in EDs could eliminate current limitations of AKI prediction in septic patients allowing physicians to…
The end of 2019 brings with it holiday gatherings, school vacations, and the annual tradition of New Year’s resolutions – with some of the most common resolutions being to exercise more and lose weight. Popular gym chains across the country…
For most people, getting an ultrasound is a relatively easy procedure: As a technician gently presses a probe against a patient’s skin, sound waves generated by the probe travel through the skin, bouncing off muscle, fat, and other soft tissues…
An educational outreach training package has shown to be effective for improving management of respiratory diseases in Brazil, raising hopes it could be rolled out to treat other common, severe diseases in low- and middle-income countries. Researchers from the University…
IMAGE: Optical power comparisons view more Credit: N. Hanacek/NIST Always on the lookout for better ways to measure all kinds of things, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have published a detailed study suggesting an “elegant” improved…
IMAGE: Kelly Schlendorf, MD, MHS, lead author of the study and medical director of VUMC’s Adult Heart Transplant Program. view more Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Patients who were transplanted with hearts from hepatitis C-positive donors had comparable outcomes after one…
ITHACA, N.Y. – Prior organic farming practices and plantings can have lasting outcomes for future soil health, weeds and crop yields, according to new Cornell University research. The study recently published in the journal Agriculture Systems also breaks down how…
Tokyo, Japan–Crystallization is the physical phenomenon of the transformation of disordered molecules in a liquid or gas phase into a highly ordered solid crystal through two stages: nucleation and growth. Crystallization is very important in materials and natural sciences because…
