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Credit: Prasad Abnave A new study carried out by the University of Oxford has used flat worms to look at ...

New method for tissue regeneration, inspired by nature, described by scientists

Credit: University of Birmingham Scientists have found a way of mimicking our body's natural healing process, using cell derived nano-sized ...

Prehistoric squid was last meal of newborn ichthyosaur 200 million years ago

Credit: Julian Kiely. Scientists from the UK have identified the smallest and youngest specimen of Ichthyosaurus communis on record and ...

New report gives the lay of the land on grazing livestock’s climate impact

Tuesday October 3, 2017 - Oxford, United Kingdom: An international research collaboration has shed light on the impact that grass-fed ...

Breakthrough cancer treatment brings hope and challenges

The first gene therapy for cancer, approved by the Food Drug Administration in August, will transform the treatment of a ...

NJIT device aimed at early detection of deadly diseases wins NJ Health Foundation backing

New Jersey Health Foundation (NJHF) has awarded NJIT engineer Eon Soo Lee a $50,000 Innovation Grant to develop a nanotechnology-enhanced ...

Unexpected findings uncover new understanding of gene expression

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that the catalytic activity of the fly enzyme Trr and mammalian MLL3/MLL4 -- members of ...

UK researchers seek to identify ways to relieve post-chemotherapy cognitive impairment

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 29, 2017) -- Of the 14 million cancer survivors in the United States, a significant number experience ...

New system finds and targets vulnerabilities in lung cancer cells

Genetic changes that help lung cancer thrive also make it vulnerable to a promising experimental drug, according to a study ...

Genetic test successfully detects some asymptomatic pancreatic cancers

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 2, 2017 - A genetic test developed at UPMC proved highly sensitive at determining which pancreatic cysts are ...

Family Medicine and Community Health Journal volume 5, issue number 2 publishes

Beijing, Sept. 21, 2017: The Summer 2017 issue, a special issue entitled "Primary care and cancer", Guest Editor: Li Li, ...

World’s first super-microsurgery operation with ‘robot hands’

Credit: Microsure MAASTRICHT, Oct. 2, 2017 - Plastic surgeons at Maastricht University Medical Center have used a robotic device to ...

Ben-Gurion U. Developing new sensor with the ram group for earlier disease diagnosis

Ben-Gurion University Announces Collaboration With Ram Group to Develop a New Diagnostic Sensor for Earlier Diagnosis of Diseases BEER-SHEVA, Israel, ...

Doctors define ‘safe and effective’ margins for ‘one and done’ skin removal around suspicious moles

By carefully tracing a line of at least 2 millimeters outside of and around the edges of a mole that ...

By decoding how HPV causes cancer, researchers find a new potential treatment strategy

WASHINGTON -- A study that teases apart the biological mechanisms by which human papillomaviruses (HPV) cause cancer has found what ...

Liquid biopsies may help predict response to immune checkpoint inhibitors

Bottom Line: The number of alterations detected in the DNA collected from blood samples (liquid biopsies) of cancer patients treated ...

DNA mutations shed in blood predicts response to immunotherapy in patients with cancer

In a first-of-its-kind study, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers report that a blood sample, or liquid ...

An algorithm that explains how ants create and repair trail networks

Credit: Deborah Gordon Imagine you're a member of the Cephalotes goniodontus species, an arboreal ant with a Darth Vader-like head ...

New UM faculty member lands $1.8 million grant to study intracellular bacteria that infect most insects

Credit: courtesy MISSOULA - A new University of Montana faculty member, Brandon Cooper, recently was awarded a five-year, $1.8 million ...

Random movements help color-detecting cells form the proper pattern