Cancer cells put the brakes on immune system
The degenerated cells cause an inflammatory reaction and influence other blood cells with it so much, that the immune system ...
Month: July 2017
Understanding the impact of childhood cancer rates across sub-Saharan Africa
Collated Childhood cancer statistics in sub Saharan Africa have been published for the first time as a monograph in the ...
2 methods to de-identify large patient datasets greatly reduced risk of re-identification
Bottom Line: Two de-identification methods, k-anonymization and adding a "fuzzy factor," significantly reduced the risk of re-identification of patients in ...
World Hepatitis Day sets the stage for the elimination of viral hepatitis
Today, World Hepatitis Day, marks the first time that the global health community has come together to officially begin moving ...
Engineering on a blue streak
Credit: Abhishek Shete/ University of Delaware A pair of engineers at the University of Delaware has developed a process to ...
NASA finds moon of Saturn has chemical that could form ‘membranes’
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center NASA scientists have definitively detected the chemical acrylonitrile in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon ...
Faster-acting antidepressants may finally be within reach
Credit: Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University/Neuron Some activity patterns in the brain can be dangerous, ...
Hunger-controlling brain cells may offer path for new obesity drugs
Is the solution to the obesity epidemic all in our heads? A study by researchers at The Rockefeller University suggests ...
Newly discovered biomarkers may lead to promising diagnostic tool for Alzheimer’s
Credit: Ohio State COLUMBUS, Ohio - Diagnosing Alzheimer's disease and determining a patient's prognosis is an inexact business, and that ...
Researchers developing new tool to distinguish between viral, bacterial infections
Credit: University of Rochester Medical Center Antibiotics are lifesaving drugs, but overuse is leading to one of the world's most ...
Dr. Boukrina of Kessler Foundation awarded major American Heart Association grant
Credit: Kessler Foundation Olga Boukrina, PhD, research scientist in Stroke Rehabilitation Research at Kessler Foundation, has received a three-year award ...
Type 1 diabetes trial at halfway point
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -The Sanford Project: T-Rex Study, a Phase 2 clinical trial conducted collaboratively by Sanford Health and Caladrius ...
On-chip pumps achieve high-speed sorting of large cells
Credit: Shinya Sakuma, Yusuke Kasai, Takeshi Hayakawa, and Fumihito Arai Nagoya, Japan - The sorting of individual cells is necessary ...
A molecule for proper neural wiring in the cerebellum
Credit: Miyazaki T. et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, June 27, ...
Estrogen regulates pathological changes of bones via bone lining cells
The most important female sex hormone, oestrogen, plays a crucial role in the regulation of bone mass. Oestrogen deficiency is ...
Dementia: New substance improves brain function
Credit: Kurt Bauer / Technical University of Munich The protein amyloid beta is believed to be the major cause of ...
Green tea ingredient may ameliorate memory impairment, brain insulin resistance, and obesity
A study published online in The FASEB Journal, involving mice, suggests that EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate), the most abundant catechin and biologically ...
Researchers uncover how to boost learning efficiency in neurofeedback paradigm
Researchers from the HSE Centre for Cognition & Decision Making and the Control of Complex Systems Laboratory (Institute of Problems ...
Rice U. scientists reel in structure of salmon virus
Credit: Tao Laboratory/Rice University The structure of a protein key to the survival and spread of a virus that affects ...
Third edition of the Growing Young symposium: ‘FOOD HEALTH TECH’
Fostering relations between agents from the food and biotechnological industry, the scientific community and the medical sector is one of ...
