News tagged with organ morgan

Cell-building discovery could reduce need for some animal research

Brown University biomedical engineers can now grow and assemble living microtissues into complex three-dimensional structures in a way that will advance the field of tissue engineering and may eventually reduce ...

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Many children with liver transplants from parents can safely stop using anti-rejection drugs

Physicians at three transplant centers have found in a pilot study that a majority of children who receive liver tissue from a parent can eventually stop using immunosuppression (anti-rejection) medications safely. These ...

Medicine & Health / Other

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Worm seeks worm: Researchers find chemical cues driving aggregation in nematodes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long seen evidence of social behavior among many species of animals, both on the earth and in the sea. Dolphins frolic together, lions live in packs, and hornets construct ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Study uncovers clues to what makes anesthetics work

Physicians use inhalation anesthetics in a way that is incredibly safe for patients, but very little is known about the intricacies of how these drugs actually work in children and adults. Now, researchers have uncovered ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Foiling the plan of a cyberbully

Morgan Biggs, an eighth grade student at St. Anne's School of Annapolis in Maryland, has an opinion about cyberbullying. "Bullying comes in many different forms, from cyberbullying to physical bullying. It's ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Greenhouse gases soar; no signs warming is slowed

(AP) -- Heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are building up so high, so fast, that some scientists now think the world can no longer limit global warming to the level world leaders have agreed upon as safe.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 61

Many boomers avoid living wills, say they're young

(AP) -- Many baby boomers don't have end-of-life legal documents such as a living will - and some say it's because they feel healthy and young in their middle-age years and don't need to dwell on death.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Groupon, Twitter, other tech companies grapple with hypergrowth

Mark Johnson is something of a miracle worker for Groupon. No, he isn't a Master of the Universe salesman, nor a code-slinging prodigy. What he does is just as important.

Technology / Business

created Aug 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

E. coli death toll up to at least 47

(AP) -- The death toll in Europe's E. coli outbreak has risen by three to at least 47, German authorities said Monday, even as new infections continue to tail off.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Internal bleeding higher with popular heart device than earlier model

The incidence of internal bleeding was higher in the most commonly implanted heart device than in an earlier model, according to two studies at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jun 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Can evolution outpace climate change?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Animals and plants may not be able to evolve their way out of the threat posed by climate change, according to a UC Davis study of a tiny seashore animal. The work was published today (June ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 69 | with audio podcast


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