New health calculator can help predict heart disease risk, estimate heart age

A new online health calculator can help people determine their risk of heart disease, as well…

Build an ark? Biologists discuss conservation prioritization

Conservation biologists recognize a sobering reality. "We're losing species left, right and center," says a biologist.…

Enabling technology in cell-based therapies: Scale-up, scale-out or program in-place

Technologies are reducing costs and changing the ways in which researchers and clinicians process and use…

Curing breast cancer but at what cost? Patients report heavy financial toll

A new study finds many breast cancer patients are concerned about the financial impact of their…

Using adrenaline in cardiac arrests results in less than one percent more people leaving hospital alive

A clinical trial of the use of adrenaline in cardiac arrests has found that its use…

Sahara dust may make you cough, but it’s a storm killer

The bad news: Dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa -- totaling a staggering 2 to…

Wearable device measures cortisol in sweat

By drawing in a bit of sweat, a patch can reveal how much cortisol a person…

Parakeet pecking orders, basketball match-ups, and the tenure-track

Researchers describe a new algorithm called SpringRank that uses wins and losses to quickly find rankings…

The need for speed: Why malaria parasites are faster than human immune cells

Elementary cytoskeleton protein is different in parasites and represents a starting point for a possible new…

Eagle-eyed machine learning algorithm outdoes human experts

Researchers have trained computers to quickly and consistently detect and analyze microscopic radiation damage to materials…