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High-powered fuel cell boosts electric-powered submersibles, drones

The transportation sector is a major segment of the US economy: about 1 in 5 dollars in the US is spent annually on transportation...

Why women tend to stay mentally sharp longer than men?

Sex differences influence brain morphology and physiology during both development and aging. The brain’s metabolism slows as people grow older, and this, too, may differ...

New clues discovered to lung transplant rejection

Lung transplantation often remains the only viable option for improving the survival of patients with end-stage lung disease. This condition can be brought on by...

Tiny, implantable device uses light to treat bladder problems

Scientists and engineers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a tiny, implantable device that can detect overactivity in...

Cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s genetically linked

An international team of scientists has identified DNA from almost 1.5 million people and identified points of DNA that appear to be involved both in cardiovascular disease...

Study provides new insights on how sense of smell develops

Dogs have a good sense of smell. Through just a smell, they can identify any object, person etc. Among dogs and other animals that rely...

Higher doses of radiation don’t improve survival in prostate cancer, study

Gathering data by comparing the standard radiation treatment, a new study by the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that higher...

3-D mapping babies’ brains

Babies brain grows rapidly in utero. Their cerebral cortex drastically expands surface area. Many studies have suggested that this rapid and essential growth is...

Customer-facing companies have happier workers

According to a new study by Andrew Knight, associate professor of organizational behavior at Washington University in St. Louis, people working in customer-facing companies,...

Uncertainty can delay the treatment for young people with mental illness

Marks of disgrace, states of mind of confidence and misattributing side effects drove a gathering of youthful grown-ups encountering their first scene of psychosis...

New study to prevent cervical cancer fuel supply stymies tumors

Recently researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have demonstrated that cervical tumors that don’t respond to radiation may be vulnerable...

Scientists says, transformation of Huntington’s disease patients’ skin cells into brain cells sheds light on disorder

According to the researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, acquired a mass of neurons when they transformed skin cells from patients...

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