Mouse, not just tick: New genome heralds change in Lyme disease fight
UCI-led study points toward new ways to prevent disease transmission Irvine, Calif., July 24, 2019 -- As Lyme disease increases, ...
Month: July 2019
Following breeding green sea turtles in remote islands of Brazil
UMass Amherst ecologist, team will study reproductive and migration patternsCredit: NOAA Fisheries USFWS Permit #: TE-72088A-2 AMHERST, Mass. - The National ...
Dr. Chiaravalloti receives grant to improve new learning and memory in multiple sclerosis
The National Institutes of Health awarded a $1,825,742 grant to Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, of Kessler Foundation to conduct a randomized ...
PSU biology prof gets $1.25M grant to study effect of Western diet on immune system
A Portland State University biology professor will continue her research into the effect of the Western diet on the immune ...
Seeing clearly: Revised computer code accurately models an instability in fusion plasmas
Credit: Elle Starkman Subatomic particles zip around ring-shaped fusion machines known as tokamaks and sometimes merge, releasing large amounts of ...
To understand a childhood brain tumor, researchers turn to single-cell analysis
Research at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital digs into the cells of origin for key medulloblastoma ...
Outcompeting cancer
A new way to stop cancer cells from killing their healthy neighbors One of the reasons cancer cells are so ...
Disrupting immune cell behavior may contribute to heart disease and failure, study shows
Credit: X. Hou and D. Cihakova, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine On an ice hockey team, ...
Time heals all wounds, but this adhesive can help
Bioinspired wound dressing contracts in response to body heat to speed healing Cuts, scrapes, blisters, burns, splinters, and punctures - ...
Cellular soldiers designed to kill cancer cells that get loose during surgery
Credit: Vanderbilt University Cellular soldiers created using the body's own defenses can track down and kill escaping cancer cells during ...
University of Toronto researchers show kids widely exposed to smoking in movies
More than half of the top-grossing movies in Ontario in the past 16 years featured smoking, according to University of ...
BU researchers say special mapping brain cells could inspire smarter self-driving vehicles
Could rat brains hold the secret to giving cars, robots better navigational skills? In a study published in Nature Communications, ...
Unlocking therapies for hard-to-treat lung cancers
Salk scientists find that diabetes drug candidates may work against types of non-small-cell lung cancersCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(July 24, ...
Exploring genetic ‘dark matter,’ researchers gain new insights into autism and stroke
With its elegant double helix and voluminous genetic script, DNA has become the of darling of nucleic acids. Yet, it ...
Family experience influences diabetes risk, management for African Americans
Credit: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - African American families not only share a higher risk for Type 2 diabetes, ...
Army project may advance quantum materials, efficient communication networks
Credit: Princeton University RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (July 24, 2019) -- A U.S. Army project exploring novel applications of superconducting ...
ADVANCE study provides evidence for shift to dolutegravir-containing ART in SA
The Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute and partners have presented evidence for a shift to Dolutegravir-containing ART in SACredit: ...
What do dragonflies teach us about missile defense?
Credit: Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Be grateful you're not on a dragonfly's diet. You might be a fruit ...
Closing the terahertz gap: Tiny laser is an important step toward new sensors
Credit: Sterczewski et al. In a major step toward developing portable scanners that can rapidly measure molecules in pharmaceuticals or ...
Insilico Medicine to present at the XPOMET Medicinale Festival 2019
Alex Zhavoronkov, Ph.D., Founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine, to present at the XPOMET Medicinale Festival 2019 in Berlin on ...
