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18.06.2013

Podium finish for Genetrainer

(University of Bristol) The world's first computer guided fitness training system using a person's DNA was announced as one of the three winners of the LeWeb'13 London Startup Competition, Europe's largest technology conference.

18.06.2013

The discerning fruit fly: Linking brain-cell activity and behavior in smell recognition

(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) Comparing apples to oranges, or different apples. Neuroscientists in Associate Professor Glenn Turner's group at CSHL have visualized and quantified the activity of cells in the fruit fly brain that process smell. They found that the activity of as few as 25 cells correlated extremely well with the flies' ability to tell different smells apart, as well group similar smells together, and they could predict fly behavior patterns towards the odors based on these responses.

18.06.2013

New concussion data: 2 biomarkers better than 1

(University of Rochester Medical Center) Scientists are scrambling to gather data for the FDA to support the need for a blood test to diagnose brain injury in the United States. The University of Rochester Medical Center just added significant evidence by reporting in the Journal of Neurotrauma that it might be clinically useful to measure two brain biomarkers instead of one.

18.06.2013

Tackling a framework for surgical innovation

(Weill Cornell Medical College) An international team of investigators co-led by Weill Cornell Medical College is offering a new framework for evidence-based surgery and device research, similar to the kind of risk and benefit analysis used in evidence-based medicine.

18.06.2013

Herbal extract boosts fruit fly lifespan by nearly 25 percent, UCI study finds

(University of California - Irvine) The herbal extract of a yellow-flowered mountain plant long used for stress relief was found to increase the lifespan of fruit fly populations by an average of 24 percent, according to UC Irvine researchers.

18.06.2013

Atherosclerosis in abdominal aorta may predict adverse cardiovascular events, UTSW scientists report

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Magnetic resonance imaging of aortic atherosclerosis can predict the risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular events in otherwise healthy individuals, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.

18.06.2013

ACS NSQIP® data is more accurate than administrative data for tracking 30-day hospital readmissions

(American College of Surgeons) A new study appearing in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons finds that the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program® led to more accurate data tracking than another popular database, the University HealthSystem Consortium, for tracking 30-day hospital readmissions among colorectal surgical patients.

18.06.2013

NIH to fund collaborations with industry to identify new uses for existing compounds

(NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)) The National Institutes of Health has awarded $12.7 million to match nine academic research groups with a selection of pharmaceutical industry compounds to explore new treatments for patients in eight disease areas, including Alzheimer's disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and schizophrenia.

18.06.2013

Sexual minority youth need specialized treatment from therapists

(University of Missouri-Columbia) Despite advances in civil rights, sexual minority youth are still at greater risk for suicide than their heterosexual peers, according to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center. A University of Missouri psychology graduate student recently published recommendation to improve psychologists' treatment of sexual minority youth, which could help improve psychological functioning and reduce depression and suicide rates.

18.06.2013

Chemical probe confirms that body makes its own rotten egg gas, H2S, to benefit health

(Southern Methodist University) A new study confirms directly what scientists previously knew only indirectly -- that poisonous "rotten egg" gas hydrogen sulfide is generated by the body's blood vessel cells. Researchers made the confirmation by developing a chemical probe that lights up in reaction to rotten egg gas. The scientists observed the process in real-time through a microscope, said chemist Alexander Lippert, Southern Methodist University, Dallas. "This is going to open up many experiments for scientists," Lippert said.

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