Month: September 2017

(Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) ) For her research on development of hematological and musculoskeletal disorders, Dr. Cornelia Lee-Thedieck, scientist ...

A ‘virtual heart’ to simulate arrhythmia

Credit: MIPT Press Office A group of researchers from MIPT and Ghent University (Belgium) has developed the first realistic model ...

Parkinson’s severity assessed through drawing

Credit: Courtesy of Dinesh Kumar and Ms. Poonam Zham of the 'Affordable diagnostics' group in RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Researchers ...

Certara paper shows viral kinetic modeling grows flu knowledge, advances drug development

Certara®, the global leader in model-informed drug development and regulatory science, today announced that its comprehensive influenza viral kinetic modeling ...

New microscopy method for quick and reliable 3-D imaging of curvilinear nanostructures

Credit: Cécile Hébert/Emad Oveisi/EPFL Physical and biological sciences increasingly require the ability to observe nano-sized objects. This can be accomplished ...

UCLA biologists slow aging, extend lifespan of fruit flies

Credit: Nature Communications/Anil Rana UCLA biologists have developed an intervention that serves as a cellular time machine -- turning back ...

ERC Starting Grants: 605 million to 406 top researchers across Europe

(European Research Council) The European Research Council has announced today the awarding of its Starting Grants to 406 early-career researchers ...

Will mallards hybridize their cousins out of existence?

Credit: Gary Kramer/USFWS (public domain) Mallards -- the familiar green-headed ducks of city parks -- are one of a group ...

Investigating the mechanisms of metastasis

Credit: Children's Hospital Los Angeles Cancer metastasis - the spread of disease from the original site to a distant organ ...

FDG-PET/CT predicts melanoma patients’ response to immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy

Credit: SY Cho, EJ Lipson, H Im, et al., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD RESTON, Va. - ...

Outreach interventions improve colorectal cancer screening

Outreach and notification to patients and physicians improved colorectal cancer (CRC) screening among patients who were not up-to-date or nonadherent ...

How to implement Advance Care Planning for patients

Credit: Lancaster University Emeritus Professor Sheila Payne from the International Observatory on End of Life Care at Lancaster University helped ...

MIRO trial: 3-year outcomes favor laparoscopic surgery for esophageal cancer

LUGANO-MADRID, 05 September, 2017 - Patients requiring surgery for oesophageal cancer fare better after undergoing a hybrid minimally invasive oesophagectomy ...

Recurrence of prostate cancer could be reduced thanks to exciting new discovery

Ground breaking research could reduce the recurrence of prostate cancer in males, a new study in the journal Nature Communications ...

Zika virus could be used to treat brain cancer patients, study suggests

Credit: Zhu et al., 2017 Recent outbreaks of Zika virus have revealed that the virus causes brain defects in unborn ...

Team finds way to measure key cell regulator’s activity

Credit: UT Health San Antonio UT Health San Antonio researchers and co-authors in New York state on Monday (Sept. 4) ...

Research dog helps scientists save endangered carnivores

Credit: Photo: Courtesy of Karen DeMatteo Scat-sniffing research dogs are helping scientists map out a plan to save reclusive jaguars, ...

The protein TAZ sends ‘mixed signals’ to stem cells

Credit: Image by Xingliang Zhou/Ying Lab, USC Stem Cell Just as beauty exists in the eye of the beholder, a ...

New book on disaster risk governance in India

Credit: Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) While Dr. Indrajit Pal serves in Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management, in AIT's Department ...

New strategy for vaccinating pregnant mothers against malaria holds promise for protecting infants