Month: April 2018

First study to show 'owls' have higher risk of mortality Switch to daylight savings time is much harder for them ...

New affordable hepatitis C combination treatment shows 97 percent cure rate

Credit: DNDi PARIS, 12 April 2018 - An affordable hepatitis C combination treatment including the new drug candidate ravidasvir has ...

Sensitive new assay detects hepatitis B infection in single liver cells and serum

Credit: Song-Mei Liu Philadelphia, April 12, 2018 - Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) can progress to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma ...

Certain iron supplements may influence the development of colon cancer

Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Two common iron compounds increase the formation of a known biomarker for cancer, according ...

It’s not your fitness tracker — it’s you

Credit: Mike Glier/USC Dornsife College An American, a Brit and a Dutch guy go for a walk. That may sound ...

Enzyme LSD1 found to regulate muscle fiber type differentiation

Credit: Prof. Mitsuyoshi Nakao Our bodies convert food into energy for all life activities. These metabolic processes allow the cells ...

International Conference on Learning & Memory to feature world’s leading brain scientists

Huntington Beach, Calif. -- On April 18-22, 2018, the UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory will host ...

BGRF Chief Science Officer to present at cutting-edge technology conference.

BGRF is excited to report that its chief science officer, professor Alexander Zhavoronkov -- also the CEO of Insilico Medicine, ...

EPA’s IRIS program has made substantial progress, says new report

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program has made "substantial progress" in implementing ...

Research brief: Vaccines to treat opioid abuse and prevent fatal overdoses

Heroin and prescription opioid abuse and fatal overdoses are a public health emergency in the United States. Vaccines offer a ...

Ludwig scientists share new cancer research findings at 2018 AACR Annual Meeting

APRIL 11, 2018, NEW YORK - Ludwig Cancer Research released today the full scope of findings to be presented by ...

Australia and the United States allied on the science front

Credit: Science & Technology Australia For the first time, the peak scientific bodies from Australia and the USA have struck ...

Some can combat dementia by enlisting still-healthy parts of the brain

Credit: Aneta Kielar, University of Arizona People with a rare dementia that initially attacks the language center of the brain ...

Thin, flexible polymers record ‘conversations’ deeper in the brain with less injury-risk

Science has yet to unravel a complete understanding of the brain and all its intricate workings. It's not for lack ...

Digital addiction increases loneliness, anxiety and depression

Credit: San Francisco State University Smartphones are an integral part of most people's lives, allowing us to stay connected and ...

Ludwig researchers devise and test pioneering personalized ovarian cancer vaccine

Credit: Ludwig Cancer Research APRIL 11, 2018, NEW YORK -- A Ludwig Cancer Research study has shown that an entirely ...

Save the date: Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2018

CHICAGO, April, 11, 2018 - The Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) 2018 will be held July 21-26 at McCormick Place ...

New methodology helps study of promising targeted drug delivery scaffold

Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed a new way to manipulate a virus shell that self-assembles from proteins and holds promise ...

Personalized tumor vaccine shows promise in pilot trial

PHILADELPHIA - A new type of cancer vaccine has yielded promising results in an initial clinical trial conducted at the ...

Reconstruction of major North Atlantic circulation system shows weakening