Steroid hormones could hold further clues about age-related bone loss
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Sept. 15, 2017) – A group of steroid hormones could provide ...
Month: February 2018
Stem cell research provides hope for tasmanian devils with a deadly, transmissible cancer
Credit: Andrew S. Flies Morris Animal Foundation-funded researcher Dr. Deanne Whitworth, and her colleagues at the University of Queensland, have ...
Undergraduate student uncovers genes associated with aggressive form of brain cancer
Credit: Oncotarget, doi:10.18632/oncotarget.24228 CLEMSON, South Carolina – When Leland Dunwoodie, an undergraduate researcher in biochemistry, approached his PI about wanting ...
What makes the bacteria behind lyme disease tick?
Credit: (UConn Office of the Vice President for Research Photo) Connecticut residents are all too familiar with Lyme disease, but ...
Queen’s University Belfast researcher turning dirty tinfoil into…
Credit: Queen's University Belfast A researcher at Queen's University Belfast has discovered a way to convert dirty aluminium foil into ...
Next generation solvent contributes to next generation biofuel…
Credit: Kanazawa University The first-generation biofuel, industrialized, ethanol, is produced from foodstuffs like maize, and thus poses great concern about ...
A virus-bacteria coevolutionary ‘arms race’ solves diversity by ‘killing…
Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign There is remarkable biodiversity in all but the most extreme ecosystems on Earth. When ...
Disease resistance successfully spread from modified to wild…
Credit: NIAID WHAT: Using genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes to reduce or prevent the spread of infectious diseases is a new ...
‘Inefficient’ sailing fleet keeps oyster fishery alive
Credit: Adam Spargo Oyster stocks in a Cornish fishery are sustained thanks to "inefficient" traditional fishing methods, new research suggests. ...
A $5,000 idea blossomed into a $300,000 algae research and innovation…
It all started with a good idea, willing partners, and a $5,000 corporate-sponsored research project. The idea germinated, blossomed, and ...
SMAD4 loss is associated with cetuximab resistance and induction of MAPK/JNK activation in…
Credit: Insilico Medicine Summary: Cetuximab, an anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody and the only FDA-approved targeted therapy against advanced head and neck ...
Rutgers professor studies trans fat consumption in the wake of policy shifts
Credit: Shauna Downs Trans fat policies have led to a decline in its availability in the global food supply, according ...
Termites’ unique gut ‘factory’ key to global domination
Credit: Jan Šobotník Termites have achieved ecological dominance and now some of the ingredients for their success have been determined ...
Gut bacteria: It can be good, and bad, for health
Credit: University of Rochester Medical Center The human microbiome – the trillions of tiny bacteria that live in and on ...
New glucagon delivery system reduces episodes of post-bariatric surgery hypoglycemia
Credit: John Soares BOSTON – (February 7, 2018) – A new "smart" glucagon delivery system created by researchers from the ...
PharmaMar’s novel ADC demonstrates anticancer activity in HER2-expressing
This news release is available in Spanish. PharmaMar (MSE:PHM), a world-leading biopharmaceutical company in the discovery and development of innovative ...
Could asking one question help us better understand women and infants’ health?
Credit: National Institutes of Health "Have you ever been sexually active for a year or more without using contraception and ...
Molecular ‘magnets’ could improve cancer immunotherapy
Credit: Professor Caetano Reis e Sousa, Francis Crick Institute Chemicals that attract specialised immune cells toward tumours could be used ...
Genetic gene mutations: Opening new therapeutic avenues in metastatic…
Credit: Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) DNA-repair gene mutations are found inherited in one out of every ten men ...
