Reducing disparities in cancer precision medicine
New Orleans, LA - The National Cancer Institute has awarded LSU Health New Orleans and Moffitt Comprehensive Cancer Center in ...
Month: September 2017
Cancer treatment: Bringing patients onboard
Montreal, September 27, 2017 - Mado Desforges is a breast-cancer survivor who specializes in adult education, and lately she's added ...
University of Hawaii awarded nearly $6.3 million to develop trivalent Ebola vaccine
Credit: Amanda Shell, UH-JABSOM University of Hawaii vaccine researcher Axel Lehrer, PhD, has received a nearly $6.3 million grant to ...
Preventing Zika from being transmitted to fetus is goal of new NIH grant to Hawaii
New funding awarded to the University of Hawaii (UH) may lead to solution to a compelling dilemma -- a way ...
Study suggests an answer to young people’s persistent sleep problems
(James Cook University) A collaborative research project involving James Cook University and the University of Queensland indicates high rates of ...
Pioneering bacterial energetics and antimicrobial resisitance group honored
A world-leading team of microbiologists, whose work on a novel new way to fight TB infections shows great promise, has ...
Summer could be one long heatwave if planet hits 2 degrees C
Credit: Anna Jiménez Calaf on Unsplash Summer in some regions of the world will become one long heatwave even if ...
OU research group awarded $10.5 million NIH COBRE grant
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma research team led by Ann West, professor of chemistry and biochemistry in ...
New test rapidly diagnoses Zika
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT researchers have developed a paper-based test that can diagnose Zika infection ...
Mini-protein rapid design method opens way to create a new class of drugs
Credit: Randy Carnell/UW Medicine Scientists have created a high-speed method to generate thousands of different, small, stable proteins from scratch ...
Answer three questions and save half the world’s biodiversity
A growing international movement called "Half Earth" calls for preserving 50 percent of the world's biodiversity. In today's Nature News ...
New class of molecules may protect brain from stroke, neurodegenerative diseases
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence New Orleans, LA - Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, ...
Landmark Glycobiology textbook now available in print and online
Credit: Courtesy of Jim Huntington, Professor of Molecular Haemostasis, University of Cambridge. Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor ...
Study allows establishing a timeline of obesity
(Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) In experiments with mice, a Brazilian research group showed that, ...
Confronting dementia from lab to bedside
Credit: Rensselaer Troy, N.Y. - We know Alzheimer's as a brutal disease that dismantles our loved ones and condemns them ...
The hormone that could be making your dog aggressive
For some dog owners, a leisurely walk can turn stressful the moment their canine companion sees another pup walking by. ...
UNH earns highest national rating for sustainability
Credit: UNH Courtesy Photo DURHAM, N.H. - The University of New Hampshire is one of only three higher education institutions ...
NIH announces centers for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will award four grants to establish a coordinated scientific research effort on myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic ...
Olive mill wastewater transformed: From pollutant to bio-fertilizer, biofuel
Olive oil has long been a popular kitchen staple. Yet producing the oil creates a vast stream of wastewater that ...
Citizen science can predict butterfly population trends
New research by the University of Kent, Butterfly Conservation and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology shows that citizen scientists ...
