Month: May 2018

Users of picture-based mobile dating apps like Tinder are generally more open to short-term, casual sexual relationships than the average ...

The dark side of our genes — healthy ageing in modern times

The transition to modernity - largely driven by the Industrial Revolution - provided us with easier access to food and ...

CENTECH’s Propulsion Program will help Innodem Neurosciences succeed globally

Credit: Innodem CENTECH, a Montreal-based technology incubator, announced earlier that it has selected a company founded by Dr. Etienne de ...

Experimental MERS treatments enter clinical trial

Credit: NIAID Enrollment has begun in an early-stage clinical trial testing the safety of two human monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) designed ...

Genome editing method targets AIDS virus

By destroying the regulatory genes of the AIDS virus HIV-1 using the genome editing system CRISPR/Cas9, a Japanese research group ...

Particle shows promise for treating the deadliest type of breast cancer

Credit: Oihana Iriondo/Min Yu/USC Stem Cell USC researchers have pinpointed a remedy to thwart a protein that helps the metastatic ...

World first use of cognitive training reduces gait freezing in Parkinson’s patients

The researchers report significant reduction in the severity and duration of freezing of gait, improved cognitive processing speed and reduced ...

A new Achilles’ heel of blood cancer

Credit: CeMM/Anna Skucha (Vienna, May 18, 2018) AML is not a single disease. It is a group of leukemias that ...

Developmental psychotherapy for antisocial adolescents

Antisocial behavior is common during adolescence and incurs significant costs both for society and for the young people themselves. While ...

Flow of cerebrospinal fluid regulates neural stem cell division

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Stem cells in the brain can divide and mature into ...

Humira does not improve aortic vascular inflammation in psoriasis patients

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - An antibody used to treat the skin disease psoriasis and other chronic autoimmune diseases such ...

Rutgers researchers create a 3D-printed smart gel that walks underwater, moves objects

Credit: Daehoon Han/Rutgers University-New Brunswick Rutgers University-New Brunswick engineers have created a 3D-printed smart gel that walks underwater and grabs ...

Drug used to treat daytime sleepiness does not appear to improve driving in those with sleep apnea

Credit: ATS In "Does Armodafinil Improve Driving Task Performance and Weight Loss in Sleep Apnea? A Randomized Trial," Nathaniel Marshall, ...

Morris Animal Foundation study identifies new virus in cat

Credit: Dr. Julia Beatty, University of Sydney DENVER/May 17, 2018 - Morris Animal Foundation-funded researchers from the University of Sydney ...

AgriLife scientists uncover a new face of a famous protein, SWI2/SNF2 ATPase

Credit: (Texas A&M AgriLife Research photo by Blair Fannin) COLLEGE STATION - A team of Texas A&M and Texas A&M ...

Insect gene allows reproductive organs to cope with harmful bacteria

Credit: Michael Clark and Bordenstein Lab A damaging bacteria with an uncanny ability to pass itself from insect mothers to ...

Stem cell signaling drives mammary gland development and — maybe — breast cancer

The human body develops most tissue types during fetal development, in a mother's uterus. Yet one only tissue develops after ...

What bacteria can teach us about combating atrazine contamination

Credit: Colin Scott, CSIRO Atrazine, a controversial herbicide introduced to agriculture in the 1950s, has been banned in the European ...

A way to prevent pancreatic cancer from spreading post-surgery?

Credit: Fearon Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have solved a mystery ...

Immune cell provides cradle for mammary stem cells