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DALLAS, June 13, 2018 -- The thought of losing up to $14 a week along with personalized goal setting may ...

Getting heart disease patients to exercise: Study says wearables could help but only if money is on the line

PHILADELPHIA -- Combining financial incentives and personalized goal-setting with wearable devices may be an effective way of encouraging patients with ...

Network biology reveals pathogen targets in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - How are proteins in the cells of a flowering plant similar to social networks on ...

How ‘gatekeepers’ to a cell’s nucleus let genetic instructions pass through

Credit: Hoelz Lab/Dan Lin/Caltech Standing guard between a cell's nucleus and its main chamber, called the cytoplasm, are thousands of ...

Older melanoma patients may respond to anti-PD1 immunotherapy better than younger patients

Bottom Line: With each decade of life, the likelihood of progression of melanoma after treatment with anti-PD1 immunotherapy decreased by ...

Older melanoma patients have better response to immune checkpoint blockade therapy

PHILADELPHIA -- (June 13, 2018) -- Patient age correlates with response to immunotherapy in melanoma and depleting regulatory T cells ...

Men turn to plastic surgeons for a better body image and more confidence at every age

Credit: American Society of Plastic Surgeons Body image is an issue most commonly discussed among women, but new statistics released ...

Primary care providers say Michigan’s Medicaid expansion helped patients’ health and work

Credit: MDHHS ANN ARBOR, MI - Extending medical insurance to low-income Michigan residents meant they had better access to health ...

Dementia can be caused by hypertension

A new study in Cardiovascular Research, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that patients with high blood pressure are at ...

Modern blood cancer treatments require new approach for monitoring, reporting side effects

---Treatment changes including the advent of targeted and immune therapies have dramatically improved survival for blood cancers, but new report ...

103rd ESA Annual Meeting: Preview and highlights

Extreme events - such as heat waves, droughts, floods, fires and storms - are made worse by human activities. For ...

Binging, purging and fasting more common in overweight, obese young adults

Young adults who are overweight or obese are twice as likely as their leaner peers to binge and purge, use ...

Intact forests: Indispensable to the fight against climate change

LONDON (12 June 2018) -- A major international conference on "Intact Forests in the 21st Century" will take place in ...

Dialogue toward a human-relevant paradigm for biomedical research echoed in South America

Credit: Heloisa Machado Rio de Janeiro (June 10, 2018) --Since ancient times we have been interested in knowing about our ...

Structural biology: Until the last cut

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories. Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now structurally characterized late stages in the ...

New technology has bright prospects for understanding plant biodiversity

Credit: Ran Wang. Biologists get a new look at plant biodiversity and function with new imaging technology developed at the ...

Psychedelic drugs promote neural plasticity in rats and flies

Credit: Ly et al. Psychedelic drugs may have mind-altering powers in the physical sense, too. A new study, published June ...

Alzheimer’s disease: How amyloid aggregates alter neuronal function

Credit: Patricio Opazo/Daniel Choquet/IINS Alzheimer's disease, which affects nearly a million French people, is characterized by a premature alteration of ...

Breakthrough in lignin research: Spherical particles multiply enzyme efficiency

Credit: Photo: Valeria Azovskaya Researchers at Aalto University and York University have succeeded in creating a water-repellent composite structure out ...

Sea urchins see with their feet