by nick | Mar 11, 2017 | Health and Medicine
Acupuncture may not be a treatment one associates with cardiovascular health, but Drs John Longhurst, Stephanie Tjen-A-Looi and Peng Li have spent the last two decades gathering evidence as to why this traditional Chinese approach should not be overlooked. Effective...
by nick | Mar 10, 2017 | Biology, Health and Medicine
The national heart, lung, and blood institute (nhlbi) is one of 27 centers, institutes, and offices within the national institutes of health (nih). It was established originally as the national heart institute in 1948 with amission to support research and research...
by nick | Feb 25, 2017 | Biology, Earth and Environment, Engineering and Tech, Health and Medicine, Physical Science, Social Sciences, STEM Education
Soapbox Science was founded as a public outreach platform for promoting women scientists and their research. Now in its seventh year, Soapbox Science takes female scientists out of the lab and onto the streets, to talk to the passing, unsuspecting public about...
by nick | Feb 23, 2017 | Engineering and Tech, Health and Medicine
Professor Tom Royston is applying his expertise in the fields of acoustics and engineering to diagnostic medicine by developing the Audible Human Project, which aims to use sound to detect disease and injury within the body, particularly in the complex structure of...
by nick | Feb 21, 2017 | Biology, Health and Medicine
Professor Nicola Aceto studies how circulating cancer cell clusters work with an eye on novel treatments for cancer patients with the most deadly disease—metastatic cancer. How did you come to work at the Cancer Metastasis Lab at the University of Basel, Switzerland?...
by nick | Feb 21, 2017 | Earth and Environment, Health and Medicine, Social Sciences, STEM Education
Professor Pamela J. Lein is a neurotoxicologist and current Program Director for the Advanced Training in Environmental Health program at UC Davis. She investigates the potential roles of environmental contaminants as risk factors for neurodevelopmental disorders....
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