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Credit: Ozcan Research Group/UCLA Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have demonstrated that deep learning, a powerful form...

Scientists unlock path to use cell’s own nanoparticles as disease biomarkers

Credit: Louise Cooper/University of Sydney Researchers at the University of Sydney have established a method to identify individual nanoparticles released...

St. Jude Cloud launches for researchers worldwide

Credit: Peter Barta / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital St. Jude Children's Research Hospital today launched St. Jude Cloud, an...

The fewer the deadlier

Credit: Kyoto University / Jun-ichirou Yasunaga Japan -- A study appearing in the in Proceedings of the National Academy of...

Cure for fission yeast genes could have bigger things ahead

Credit: OIST Scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have taken one step closer towards...

Grad student wins design contest for health App for those considering elective mastectomy

HFES congratulates Marisa Grayson, a master's student in the Integrated Systems Engineering Department at Ohio State University, on taking first...

Foodborne disease outbreaks

Is it possible to prepare for a food crisis? How should the severity of the health risk be estimated? When...

First real-world studies report glecaprevir/pibrentasvir to be effective and well tolerated in chronic HCV infection

12 April 2018, Paris, France: The results of the first real-world studies assessing the effectiveness and safety of glecaprevir/pibrentasvir (G/P)...

Novel combination therapy effective for NRAS mutant and therapy resistant melanoma

PHILADELPHIA - (April 12, 2018) - Wistar researchers have identified a novel therapeutic vulnerability in NRAS mutant melanoma and an...

Night owls have higher risk of dying sooner

First study to show 'owls' have higher risk of mortality Switch to daylight savings time is much harder for them...

New affordable hepatitis C combination treatment shows 97 percent cure rate

Credit: DNDi PARIS, 12 April 2018 - An affordable hepatitis C combination treatment including the new drug candidate ravidasvir has...

Sensitive new assay detects hepatitis B infection in single liver cells and serum

Credit: Song-Mei Liu Philadelphia, April 12, 2018 - Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) can progress to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma...

Certain iron supplements may influence the development of colon cancer

Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Two common iron compounds increase the formation of a known biomarker for cancer, according...

It’s not your fitness tracker — it’s you

Credit: Mike Glier/USC Dornsife College An American, a Brit and a Dutch guy go for a walk. That may sound...

Enzyme LSD1 found to regulate muscle fiber type differentiation

Credit: Prof. Mitsuyoshi Nakao Our bodies convert food into energy for all life activities. These metabolic processes allow the cells...

International Conference on Learning & Memory to feature world’s leading brain scientists

Huntington Beach, Calif. -- On April 18-22, 2018, the UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory will host...

BGRF Chief Science Officer to present at cutting-edge technology conference.

BGRF is excited to report that its chief science officer, professor Alexander Zhavoronkov -- also the CEO of Insilico Medicine,...

EPA’s IRIS program has made substantial progress, says new report

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program has made "substantial progress" in implementing...

Research brief: Vaccines to treat opioid abuse and prevent fatal overdoses

Heroin and prescription opioid abuse and fatal overdoses are a public health emergency in the United States. Vaccines offer a...

Ludwig scientists share new cancer research findings at 2018 AACR Annual Meeting