Month: March 2020

Credit: by Hong-Fei Li, Xiao-Qi Liu, Chen Lyu, Jelena Gorbaciova, Li-Li Wen, Guo-Gang Shan, Peter. B. Wyatt, Huan-Qing Ye and ...

Celebrating our genomic diversity: Fine-scale differences in the Japanese population

Researchers led by Osaka University use dimensionality reduction analyses to identify fine-scale differences in the Japanese population, revealing greater population ...

Astronaut conducts heart research on station with former colleague

When NASA astronaut Jessica Meir recently slipped her hands into the Life Sciences Glovebox on the International Space Station to ...

Insights into the diagnosis and treatment brain cancer in children

Credit: Kanazawa University Ependymoma is a rare form of brain cancer that implicates children and is often tricky to diagnose. ...

Overcoming primary resistance to checkpoint inhibition with selective inhibitor of TGFβ1

Selective inhibition of latent TGFβ1 activation with SRK-181 has demonstrated an improved preclinical safety profile compared to conventional inhibitors of ...

Experimental model mimics early-stage myogenic deficit in boys with DMD

Large spike in TGFβ activity in injured muscle triggers a downward spiral leading to muscle degeneration and failed muscle regenerationCredit: ...

Experiments in mice and human cells shed light on best way to deliver nanoparticle therapy for cancer

Credit: Robert Ivkov, Ph.D. Researchers in the cancer nanomedicine community debate whether use of tiny structures, called nanoparticles, can best ...

Lipid helps heal the eye’s frontline protection

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University A species of a lipid that naturally helps skin injuries heal appears to ...

Despite failures, chemo still promising against dangerous childhood brain cancer, DIPG

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center The pediatric brain cancer known as diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is almost uniformly ...

Edmonton company Entos developing DNA vaccine against COVID-19

University of Alberta cancer researcher John Lewis's health-care biotechnology company is working on a vaccine to be delivered directly into ...

OSU research paves way to improved cleanup of contaminated groundwater

Credit: OSU College of Engineering CORVALLIS, Ore. - Beads that contain bacteria and a slow-release food supply to sustain them ...

Solving a 50-year-old puzzle in signal processing, part two:

Engineers explore algorithm's capabilities in special cases 'on the unit circle'Credit: Figure courtesy of Alexander Stoytchev. AMES, Iowa - Iowa ...

A critical enzyme for sperm formation could be a target for treating male infertility

The protein, SKP1, drives a key transition step in male meiosis, the type of cell division process that results in ...

Renewable energy developments threaten biodiverse areas

Credit: Francisca Hidalgo More than 2000 renewable energy facilities are built in areas of environmental significance and threaten the natural ...

A small forage fish should command greater notice, researchers say

UMass Amherst, more than 20 scientists urge greater effort to gather sand lance dataCredit: UMass Amherst/Keenan Yakola AMHERST, Mass. - ...

Eclectic rocks influence earthquake types

Credit: IODP JRSO New Zealand's largest fault is a jumble of mixed-up rocks of all shapes, sizes, compositions and origins. ...

Found in mistranslation

Researchers from the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, have found that global mistranslation of proteins increases cell survival under ...

Those living in rural areas, uninsured or on Medicaid less likely to receive recommended lung cancer treatment

Keck Medicine of USC study reveals that socioeconomic status disparities cause patients to miss out on treatment that improves five-year ...

Stanford engineers find ankle exoskeleton aids running

Credit: Farrin Abbott/Stanford News Service Running is great exercise but not everyone feels great doing it. In hopes of boosting ...

Parents’ physical activity helps kids with developmental disabilities improve motor skills