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High blood-sugar levels may harden heart valves
Assays created in a Rice University lab contain interstitial heart-valve cells, collagen and nutrients. These contain varying levels of glucose…
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Remembering robots from film portrayals may help ease some of the anxiety that older adults have about using a robot,…
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Researchers have shown how to use a new imaging platform to map lipid metabolism in…
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Neurons in human skin perform advanced calculations, previously believed that only the brain could perform.…
Brain networks ‘hyper-connected’ in young adults who had depression
Depression may be better predicted and understood now that University of Illinois at Chicago researchers…
Astonishing regeneration potential of the pancreas
Up until puberty, the pancreas is more adaptable and possesses a greater potential for self-healing…
UMN researchers find animal model for understudied type of muscular dystrophy
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed an animal research model for facioscapulohumeral muscular…