Research identifies pathway connecting some ARV drugs with liver disease
As a raft of new treatments for HIV infection have come on the market in the past 20 years, AIDS ...
Month: January 2019
Earth's largest extinction event likely took plants first
Credit: Christopher Fielding Little life could endure the Earth-spanning cataclysm known as the Great Dying, but plants may have suffered ...
Feeding tubes shouldn't be on POLST forms: JAGS opinion paper
Surgically inserted feeding tubes harm patients with dementia, research showsCredit: Oregon POLST Following years of research that demonstrated feeding tubes ...
Identity crisis of satiety neurons leads to obesity
Credit: Source: modified from Quarta, C. & Fisette, A. et al. (Nature Metabolism) Obesity - as research in the past ...
The search for environmental causes of Parkinson's disease moves forward
Scientists evaluate promising research hypotheses for understanding environmental triggers in Parkinson's disease and propose future directions for research in the ...
Do all chemotherapies have equal long-term heart risk?
Study of 28,000 childhood cancer survivors finds important differencesCredit: UT Health San Antonio SAN ANTONIO -- In long-term survivors of ...
Quantum sensors providing magnetic resonance with unprecedented sensitivity
The QUTIS group at the UPV/EHU has participated in a piece of international research together with the CSIC and the ...
Male birth control for the malaria parasite
Credit: Kevin J. Hart, Penn State Disrupting two genes involved in the preservation of RNA molecules inhibits the ability of ...
Mean streets: Self-driving cars will 'cruise' to avoid paying to park
Autonomous vehicles 'have every incentive to create havoc,' transportation planner saysCredit: UC Santa Cruz If you think traffic in city ...
Immune master regulator orchestrates responses to parasite infection
Whipworm study finds IL10 receptor is critical to prevent uncontrolled infection and gut damage A new study has identified the ...
Leipzig researchers on Spanish Antarctic expedition
Focus on interactions between ocean and atmosphere around the Antarctic PeninsulaCredit: Marcel Köning, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Ushuaia/Leipzig. During the next ...
Homeopathy reconsidered: What really helps patients
Critical questions, old and new, about homeopathy, and what mainstream medicine can learn from it. | Springer book explains what ...
The development of brain stem cells into new nerve cells and why this can lead to cancer
Stem cells are true Jacks-of-all-trades of our bodies, as they can turn into the many different cell types of all ...
Evolution, illustrated
Study captures one of the clearest pictures yet of evolution in vertebrates What do you get when you put together ...
Medical experts restore movement and autonomic function in patients with complete paralysis
University of Minnesota and Hennepin Healthcare study demonstrates spinal cord stimulation as a treatment for chronic spinal cord injury MINNEAPOLIS, ...
Citizen scientists discover pinhead-sized beetle in Borneo
The discovery is the latest in a series of newly described species collected as part of the Taxon Expeditions initiative ...
Connective tissue on the wrong road — When organs start to scar
Physicians discover a protein that reprogrammes connective tissue cellsCredit: Uni-Klinikum Erlangen/Andreas Ramming Scientists from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Department of Medicine ...
DDW® 2019 offers reporters access to leading research in digestive health
Digestive Disease Week® media registration now open Bethesda, MD (Jan. 31, 2019) -- Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) will host its ...
Climate change and infertility — a ticking time bomb?
Credit: Joaquim Alves Gaspar, Charles Sharp, Toby Hudson, and David Glass. Rising temperatures could make some species sterile and see ...
New computational method reduces risk of drug formulation
One major factor that determines the efficacy of a drug is the structure that its molecules form in a solid ...
