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Review of osteoporosis clinical practice guidelines finds majority lack patient values
(St. Michael's Hospital) Patients' voices are ignored all too often in osteoporosis clinical practice guidelines, say researchers, who reviewed 70 English-language guidelines around the world and found less than 40 percent included any ment...
Better water testing, safer produce
(American Society of Agronomy) Irrigation water's E. coli results can differ between labs, test types.
Is anxiety in childhood and adolescence linked to later alcohol use disorders?
(Wiley) In an Addiction analysis of relevant published studies, investigators found some evidence for a positive association between anxiety during childhood and adolescence with later alcohol use disorders.
Surprise! NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe catches asteroid spewing bits into space
This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on Jan. 19 was created by combining two images taken by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Other image processing techniques were applied, such as cropping and adjusting the brightness and co...
Revealing the rules behind virus scaffold construction
(Northwestern University) Professor Danielle Tullman-Ercek's insights into virus shell self-assembly could impact future drug delivery and therapeutic strategies.
Experts to support global companies against cyber threats
(University College London) A consortium of UK cyber security experts including UCL academics is to support global businesses to tackle online threats and protect themselves from cybercrime.The Cyber Readiness for Boards project, which is jointly fun...
Are there Zika reservoirs in the Americas?
(Washington University in St. Louis) A researcher at Washington University in St. Louis travels the Americas, collecting feces from nonhuman primates to determine the risk of Zika reservoirs.
Data-driven modeling and estimation of lithium-ion battery properties
(Data Science Institute at Columbia) Two Columbia professors affiliated with the Data Science Institute are developing a machine-learning model that can more accurately estimate a Li-Ion battery's charge level. Current estimates of a battery...
UMass Amherst food scientist receives Young Scientist Research Award
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Guodong Zhang, assistant professor of food science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is being honored with the 2019 Young Scientist Research Award from the American Oil Chemists' Society (AOCS).
Sleep problems during pregnancy affect glucose, may increase risk of childhood obesity
(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) The study found that mild sleep apnea changed sugar levels during pregnancy and was connected to infant growth patterns related to increased risk of obesity.