Autoimmunity plays a role in Parkinson's disease, according to new research.
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Researchers have found the first direct evidence that autoimmunity -- in which the immune system attacks the body's own tissues -- plays a role...
This is a colorized SEM image of a neuron (orange) interfaced with the nanowire array.
Credit: Integrated Electronics and Biointerfaces Laboratory, UC San Diego
A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed nanowires that can...
Composite image of the Earth at night assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. Population estimates based on similar satellite data can help improve vaccination campaigns. (Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC)
Satellite images that capture short-term changes in population size in communities in the developing world can help vaccination campaigns achieve more complete coverage to help prevent and control disease outbreaks. A team of researchers led by Penn State scientists...
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Using archival documents, a new report published online by JAMA Internal Medicine examines the sugar industry's role in coronary heart disease research and suggests the industry sponsored research to influence the scientific debate to cast...
An automated face detection method developed at Carnegie Mellon University enables computers to recognize faces in images at a variety of scales, including tiny faces composed of just a handful of pixels.
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University
Spotting a face in a...
East Asians and Westerners view handshakes differently, new research finds.
Credit: Graphic by Julie McMahon
Westerners view handshaking more positively than do East Asians, researchers report in a new study. Western men also rate handshakes initiated by men and women differently,...
Marijuana plant (stock image).
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Canada's Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines, released with the endorsement of key medical and public health organizations, provide 10 science-based recommendations to enable cannabis users to reduce their health risks. The guidelines, based...
Around 60-70% of people who have schizophrenia experience auditory hallucinations that are typically insulting and threatening.
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An experimental therapy which involves a face-to-face discussion between a person with schizophrenia and an avatar representing their auditory...
Research by scientists in the US and UK has estimated that up to 1.65 million childbearing women in Central and South America could become infected by the Zika virus by the end of the first wave of the epidemic.
Researchers...
The Rice Haptic Rocker uses a rotating arm to brush a soft rubber pad over the skin of the arm. The more a prosthetic hand closes, the more the pad brushes the skin.
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Engineers working to add...
This is a photograph of a WRAIR Pilot Bioproduction Facility. Credit: WRAIR
The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) and collaborators at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School have completed a promising preclinical study of...
