Researchers working on blood test to detect brain metastases while still treatable
Credit: Houston Methodist Houston Methodist cancer researchers are now closer to creating a blood test that can identify breast cancer ...
Month: August 2017
UM postdoc fellow takes advantage of cold snap to study natural selection in lizards
MISSOULA - Research by University of Montana postdoctoral fellow Shane Campbell-Staton appears in the latest issue of the journal Science. ...
UM researchers to study genome role in survival of plants, animals
MISSOULA - Understanding how wild animals and plants survive in changing environments is the focus of a new collaboration between ...
$3.2 million grant to The Jackson Laboratory for study of new ALS candidate gene
A new five-year federal research grant totaling $3,322,009 to The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) will fund studies of a new mouse ...
Desert tortoises can’t take the heat of roadside fencing
Credit: J. Mark Peaden/UC Davis Desert tortoises pace back and forth and can overheat by roadside fencing meant to help ...
New biosensor stimulates sweat even when patient is resting and cool
Credit: Dottie Stover/UC Creative Services One downside to medical sensors that test human sweat: you have to sweat. Sweating from ...
How do birds get their colors?
Credit: Ismael Galvan Birds' feathers, or plumage, are some of the most strikingly variable animal characteristics that can be observed ...
$3.2M grant to The Jackson Laboratory for study of new ALS candidate gene
A new five-year federal research grant totaling $3,322,009 to The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) will fund studies of a new mouse ...
New, more sensitive sensor for evaluating drug safety
Credit: Yu Liu, Penn State University A new technique for evaluating drug safety can detect stress on cells at earlier ...
Microbot origami can capture, transport single cells
Credit: Orlin Velev, NC State University Researchers at North Carolina State University and Duke University have developed a way to ...
Recreating the wild: De-extinction, technology, and the ethics of conservation
Is extinction forever? Efforts are under way to use gene editing and other tools of biotechnology to "recreate" extinct species ...
Tracing the path of Parkinson’s disease proteins
As neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease progress, misfolded proteins clump together in neurons, recruiting normal proteins in ...
New therapeutic approaches for musculoskeletal diseases highlighted in tissue engineering
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 4, 2017--In a forthcoming special issue of Tissue Engineering on ...
Prior dengue or yellow fever exposure does not worsen zika infection in monkeys
Rhesus macaques previously infected with dengue or yellow fever viruses appear to be neither more nor less susceptible to severe ...
Seasonal effects: ‘Winter foals’ are smaller than foals born in summer
Credit: Juliane Kuhl/Vetmeduni Vienna Seasonal and diurnal rhythms determine the life cycle of many animal species. In equids this is ...
New model for bimolecular reactions in nanoreactors
Credit: HZB Nanoreactors are tiny systems which facilitate specific chemical reactions, as a catalyst does. Many are found in biological ...
Molecular biologists discover an active role of membrane lipids in health and disease
Credit: Robert Ernst All living cells that grow and divide have a constant demand for producing new proteins and new ...
Materials governed by light
Credit: Rebeca Sola. UPV/EHU Hybrid materials are those that combine components of differing origins (organic and inorganic) in order to ...
Cell aging in lung epithelial cells
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Pulmonary fibrosis can possibly be attributed to a kind of ...
Drug safety for penguins
Credit: Thinkstock Researchers from the University's Institute of Translational Medicine have determined the most effective drug dose to help penguins ...
