Personality type could shape attitudes toward body weight of others, researchers say
Credit: FSU Photography Services TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Studies show there is a major link between personality traits and personal body ...
More accurate leukemia diagnosis expected as researchers refine leukemia classification
Research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital means more than 90 percent of the most common cases of childhood ...
Summit highlights caribbean disaster preparedness and collaboration to strengthen resilience
Caribbean Strong: Building Resilience with Equity "Caribbean Strong: Building Resilience with Equity" will take place on February 27-March 1, 2019, ...
Genes reveal clues about people's potential life expectancy
Scientists say they can predict whether a person can expect to live longer or die sooner than average, by looking ...
Partnership to supercharge vaccine production
Credit: The University of Queensland Vaccines to stop the world's next epidemic could be developed in record time under a ...
Antihypertension drug losartan may improve treatment of ovarian cancer
Mass. General study also identifies potential biomarker for chemotherapy response, resistance A new study from a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) ...
VTT develops a new sustainable way to turn forestry waste into transport fuels and chemicals
Credit: Photo by: VTT Press release, 15 January 2019 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd has developed a new ...
How Candida albicans exploits lack of oxygen to cause disease
Credit: The image was acquired at the Umeå Core Facility for Electron Microscopy (UCEM) journal MBio, a publication of the ...
Mathematical model can improve our knowledge on cancer
Credit: Ola Joensen It remains unknown how cells "know" which structures to form in order to repair tissue damage: Multicellular ...
Researchers discovered new immune response regulators
The discovery was published in the new iScience journal for interdisciplinary research by Cell Press. The newly discovered regulatory proteins ...
Scientists identify gene contributing to prostate cancer drug resistance
The GREB1 gene promotes resistance to prostate cancer treatments, making it a potential target for future therapies Researchers have discovered ...
Herpes viruses and tumors evolved to learn how to manipulate the same ancient RNA
Findings could have implications for drugs and insight into diseases like Alzheimer's (New York, NY - January 14, 2019) -- ...
Fever alters immune cells so they can better reach infections
Fever is known to help power up our immune cells, and scientists in Shanghai have new evidence explaining how. They ...
Europe looks to cells for a healthier future
Credit: Agnieszka Rybak Wolf, Lab of Nikolaus Rajewsky at BIMSB / MDC Our body's cells are constantly changing. But which ...
Purchase receipts with easily erasable ink contain cancer-infertility inducing substances
Credit: University of Granada BPA is a well-known endocrine disruptor that alters hormonal balance in people exposed to it, and ...
Scientists identify two new species of fungi in retreating Arctic glacier
Credit: NIPR Two new species of fungi have made an appearance in a rapidly melting glacier on Ellesmere Island in ...
Clinical trial testing fecal microbiota transplant for recurrent diarrheal disease begins
Credit: Janice Carr. (Image provided by CDC/Lois S. Wiggs) A research consortium recently began enrolling patients in a clinical trial ...
Defective glial cells can push neurons toward Parkinson's disease
New study suggests an important role for glial cells in Parkinson's disease and offers potential new therapeutic targets.Credit: IDIBELL A ...
Poo transplant effective treatment for chronic bowel condition
Poo transplant or "Faecal microbiota transplantation" (FMT) can successfully treat patients with ulcerative colitis, new research from the University of ...
Personalized treatment benefits kidney cancer patients
Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. - Personalized treatment plans may extend life expectancy for early-stage kidney ...
