How DNA damage turns immune cells against cancer
Credit: The lab of Roger Greenberg, MD, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Cancer is essentially a disease of ...
Month: July 2017
Refuting the idea that mutations cause cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center What causes cancer? Smoking, certainly, and also things like sun and chemical exposure. Cancer ...
New MRI contrast agent tested on big animals
Credit: IBS The top causes of death worldwide, ischemic heart diseases and stroke, together with another major source of illness, ...
Statistical analysis for optimal immunization: New insights into T cell development
When T cells encounter an antigen, they proliferate and produce various types of daughter cells. A team at the Technical ...
RI to require coverage of fertility preservation for at-risk patients
Rhode Island has become the first state to pass a law explicitly requiring coverage for fertility preservation prior to gonadotoxic ...
Scientists map the distribution of antimicrobial resistance across Chinese major cities
Credit: Image by AN Xinli Global emergence of antimicrobial resistance threatens therapies that combat infections by bacterial pathogens. Resistance genes ...
Exercise incentives do little to spur gym-going, study shows
Credit: CWRU Even among people who had just joined a gym and expected to visit regularly, getting paid to exercise ...
Toward a better sweat test for babies with cystic fibrosis
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an incurable genetic disease in which patients have chronic lung infections. The sooner CF is diagnosed, ...
Scientists discover biomarkers which could lead to better treatments for CF pat
Credit: JD Howell, McMaster University Researchers have identified two new biological markers of cystic fibrosis (CF), a genetic disease which ...
Scientists challenge next-generation sequencing dogma
Credit: ©M. Lemke Next-generation sequencing--the ability to sequence millions or billions of small fragments of DNA in parallel--has revolutionized the ...
WSU study shows muted stress response linked to long-term cannabis use
Credit: WSU A new study by Washington State University psychology researchers reveals a dampened physiological response to stress in chronic ...
Aardvarks’ fate points to worrying consequences for wildlife, due to climate change
Credit: Wits University The aardvark, a highlight for anyone on a game-viewing African safari, will become increasingly rare as the ...
Scientists discover biomarkers which could lead to better treatments for CF patients
Credit: JD Howell, McMaster University Researchers have identified two new biological markers of cystic fibrosis (CF), a genetic disease which ...
Geologist offers new clues to cause of world’s greatest extinction
A study by a researcher in the Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences offers new clues to what may ...