Bright lights, healthy choices
Dining in dimly lit restaurants has been linked to eating slowly and ultimately eating less than in brighter restaurants, but...
New 3-D hydrogel biochips prove to be superior in detecting bowel cancer at early stages
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology (EIMB RAS), the Institute...
Human trials of cancer drug PAC-1 continue with new investment
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Clinical trials of the anti-cancer agent PAC-1 are continuing to expand,...
Nine innovations to improve early brain development in the developing world — helping kids thrive
Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, and the “Saving Brains” partners today announced investments in nine creative...
Making injectable medicine safer
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Bring the drugs, hold the suds. That summarizes a promising new drug-making technique designed to reduce serious...
DARPA $6.4 million contract supports research to enhance resilience after malaria infection
Researchers at Emory University, the University of Georgia, and the Georgia Institute of Technology, along with national and international collaborators,...
May repairs full of mistakes develop into cancer?
A group of researchers at Osaka University found that if DNA damage response (DDR) does not work when DNA is...
Temple researchers successfully excise HIV DNA from animals
(Philadelphia, PA) – Using gene editing technology, researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University have, for...
Dialing up chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer with ultrasound
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 25, 2016 — Researchers at Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway have combined a laboratory ultrasound technique...
Scientists block breast cancer cells from hiding in bones
Scientists at the Duke Cancer Institute have identified a molecular key that breast cancer cells use to invade bone marrow...
Can’t resist temptation? That may not be a bad thing
Researchers from the University of Rochester suggest that children raised in poverty may have been mistakenly labeled as “maladapted” for...
A single enzyme with the power of three could offer shortcut to therapeutic target
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers identified a single enzyme doing the work of a trio thought necessary to control a...
Purdue research may expand engineered T-cell cancer treatment
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University researchers may have figured out a way to call off a cancer cell assassin...
Engineers take first step toward flexible, wearable, tricoder-like device
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed the first flexible wearable device capable of monitoring both biochemical...