New tumor database deployed to battle childhood Cancer at UC Santa Cruz
Credit: UCSC Xena Browser Group, and Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative, https://treehousegenomics.soe.ucsc.edu... SANTA CRUZ, CA - August 7 , 2017 - ...
Scientists reveal role for lysosome transport in Alzheimer’s disease progression
Credit: Gowrishankar et al., 2017 Researchers from Yale University School of Medicine have discovered that defects in the transport of ...
Lifestyle-modification programs for weight management in Arab states lack in effectiveness
Obesity is a growing health problem worldwide, and is associated with serious medical comorbidities and an increased risk of mortality. ...
New approach makes it easier to find novel drugs
Credit: Luiz Carvalho Scientists have created a new way of screening compounds that is more sensitive than existing methods, opening ...
Registration open for Wyss Institute’s 8th annual international symposium
The 8th Annual Wyss International Symposium will focus on innovations in Therapeutic Organ Engineering, with the goal of sharing recent ...
Afforestation with non-native trees alters island soils
Credit: Thomas Marler A healthy global debate has occurred concerning the benefits of using non-native trees for restoring some aspects ...
A mathematical crystal ball gazes into future of prostate cancer treatment
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center The chemotherapy docetaxel is widely accepted as a standard therapy for metastatic castration-resistant prostate ...
Drug short-circuits cancer signaling
La Jolla, Calif., August 4, 2017 - Researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) have published a study ...
Brain tumor scientists map mutation that drives tumors in childhood cancer survivors
Credit: UHN (TORONTO, Canada - Aug. 4, 2017) - Neuroscientists have uncovered the genetic basis for why many long-term survivors ...
Researchers working on blood test to detect brain metastases while still treatable
Credit: Houston Methodist Houston Methodist cancer researchers are now closer to creating a blood test that can identify breast cancer ...
UM postdoc fellow takes advantage of cold snap to study natural selection in lizards
MISSOULA - Research by University of Montana postdoctoral fellow Shane Campbell-Staton appears in the latest issue of the journal Science. ...
UM researchers to study genome role in survival of plants, animals
MISSOULA - Understanding how wild animals and plants survive in changing environments is the focus of a new collaboration between ...
$3.2 million grant to The Jackson Laboratory for study of new ALS candidate gene
A new five-year federal research grant totaling $3,322,009 to The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) will fund studies of a new mouse ...
Desert tortoises can’t take the heat of roadside fencing
Credit: J. Mark Peaden/UC Davis Desert tortoises pace back and forth and can overheat by roadside fencing meant to help ...
New biosensor stimulates sweat even when patient is resting and cool
Credit: Dottie Stover/UC Creative Services One downside to medical sensors that test human sweat: you have to sweat. Sweating from ...
How do birds get their colors?
Credit: Ismael Galvan Birds' feathers, or plumage, are some of the most strikingly variable animal characteristics that can be observed ...
$3.2M grant to The Jackson Laboratory for study of new ALS candidate gene
A new five-year federal research grant totaling $3,322,009 to The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) will fund studies of a new mouse ...
New, more sensitive sensor for evaluating drug safety
Credit: Yu Liu, Penn State University A new technique for evaluating drug safety can detect stress on cells at earlier ...
Microbot origami can capture, transport single cells
Credit: Orlin Velev, NC State University Researchers at North Carolina State University and Duke University have developed a way to ...
Recreating the wild: De-extinction, technology, and the ethics of conservation
Is extinction forever? Efforts are under way to use gene editing and other tools of biotechnology to "recreate" extinct species ...
