Genome technology boosts malaria control efforts
While most malaria research has focused on the parasite Plasmodium falciparum, which is common in Africa, another parasite, Plasmodium vivax ...
Month: February 2018
UTMB researchers find how Ebola disables the immune system
Credit: The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston GALVESTON, Texas – A new study at The University of Texas ...
The impact of Hurricane Harvey on pregnant moms
Credit: University of Houston Johanna Bick, assistant professor of clinical psychology at the University of Houston, is launching a study ...
Understanding a fly’s body temperature may help people sleep better
Credit: Cincinnati Children's Confocal Imaging Core CINCINNATI – In findings that one day may help people sleep better, scientists have ...
Is cupping therapy effective among athletes?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 13, 2018–Swimmer Michael Phelps's continued dominance at the 2016 Rio ...
Antibody-coated drug-eluting stents for coronary heart disease: No hint of benefit
In patients with coronary heart disease requiring a stent implantation, the benefit of treatment with antibody-coated drug-eluting stents (ABC-DES) versus ...
Standard blood pressure target is sufficient for treating some strokes
An international stroke study found that standard and intensive blood pressure treatments were equally effective in the emergency treatment of ...
TSRI scientists find simple copper complex shuts down botulinum neurotoxin poisoning
Credit: Image courtesy CDC LA JOLLA, CA – May 24, 2017 – Botulinum neurotoxin is probably best known to Americans ...
Suffering warthogs seek out nit-picking mongooses for relief
Credit: A. Plumptre Warthogs living in Uganda have learned to rid themselves of annoying ticks by seeking out the grooming ...
Illuminating cancer: Researchers invent a pH threshold sensor to…
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – Dec. 20, 2016 – UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have invented a transistor-like threshold sensor ...
Light-activated cancer drugs without toxic side effects: Fresh insight
Credit: Robbin Vernooij/University of Warwick Cancer drugs activated by light, minimizing toxic side-effects, are a step closer thanks to new ...
NIH releases first dataset from unprecedented study of adolescent brain development
Credit: Source: Dr. Richard Watts and ABCD/Univ. of VT P.I. Dr. Hugh Garavan The National Institutes of Health today released ...
Digital liver scanning technology could halve the number of liver biopsies needed in the NHS
Credit: University of Birmingham A study jointly led by the University of Birmingham and University of Edinburgh has revealed that ...
Cannot sleep due to stress? Here is the cure
Credit: Univetsity of Tsukuba Everyone empirically knows that stressful events certainly affect sound sleep. Scientists in the Japanese sleep institute ...
Climate change drives UK wine production but not without weather shocks
The idea of climate change turning the UK into a viable wine-making region may have boosted the industry in recent ...
With mini-vessels, mini-brains expand research potential
Credit: Hoffman-Kim lab/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Scientists have recently made a wondrous variety of mini-brains — 3-D cultures of ...
Neuron types in brain are defined by gene activity shaping their communication patterns
Credit: Huang Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY – In a major step forward in research, scientists at Cold Spring ...
New book on Cell Polarity from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: Travis R. Ruch and Joanne N. Engel, University of California, San Francisco Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Cold Spring ...
How antibiotic use in animals is contributing to antibiotic resistance
Credit: European Journal of Soil Science The overuse of veterinary antibiotics in animal production and the subsequent land applications of ...
The snow leopard — world’s most mysterious big cat — may be more common than thought
Credit: WCS Recent evidence suggests that there may be between 4,678 and 8,745 snow leopards in only 44 percent of ...
