Penn’s Brian Capell, M.D., Ph.D., wins Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Brian C. Capell, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Dermatology in the Perelman School of...
Birds eat 400 to 500 million tonnes of insects annually
Birds around the world eat 400 to 500 million metric tonnes of beetles, flies, ants, moths, aphids, grasshoppers, crickets and...
How does Parkinson’s disease develop? Study raises doubts on theory of Parkinson’s disease
Credit: Biozentrum, University of Basel Parkinson's disease was first described by a British doctor more than 200 years' ago. The...
Protein function repairing genetic damage in spermatogenesis identified
Credit: IBB-UAB Researchers from the Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology and the Institute for Biotechnology and Biomedicine of...
Meningococcal infection: Bacterial aggregates form a thick honey-like liquid that flows through blood vessels
The Inserm team led by Guillaume Duménil at the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with several teams of physicists, has unraveled...
It takes a village…
Credit: João Martins, iMM A group of researchers led by Edgar Gomes, Group Leader at Instituto de Medicina Molecular João...
Candida albicans: Progress in the understanding of the mechanisms of genetic diversification in a major fungal pathogen of humans
Candida albicans is one of the most formidable fungal species, causing infection in humans. Investigating the structure and reproduction methods...
A new study identifies 40 genes related to aggressive behavior in humans and mice
Credit: University of Barcelona The origins of the violent behaviour are multifactorial and respond to the interaction of several factors...
Insectivorous birds consume annually as much energy as the city of New York
Credit: Photo © Maurice Baker The world's insectivorous birds consume annually 400 to 500 million tons of prey and thereby...
Releasing our inner jellyfish in the fight against infection
Mucus is able to protect us from infection thanks to ancient genes that have been conserved throughout 350 million years...
Immunity could be key to addressing coral crisis
Credit: Caroline Palmer/University of Plymouth Coral reefs support a quarter of all marine life, feed hundreds of millions of people...
Penn’s Brian Capell, MD, PhD, wins Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Brian C. Capell, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Dermatology in the Perelman School of...
New targets found to reduce blood vessel damage in diabetes
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (July 9, 2018) - In diabetes, both the tightly woven endothelial...
Cross species transfer of genes has driven evolution
Credit: University of Adelaide Far from just being the product of our parents, University of Adelaide scientists have shown that...
Flavors are key to smokers switching to vaping — US study
Credit: Fontem Ventures New peer-reviewed research published today in the Harm Reduction Journal shows that flavours play a critical role...
Dartmouth institute receives $2.1 million for project to help women with uterine fibroids
Credit: The Dartmouth Institute Researchers at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice have received a $2.1 million...
Breakthrough discovery will change treatment for COPD patients
Credit: Providence Health Care Permanent lung damage caused by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) starts much earlier than previously thought,...
Could mental health apps lead to overdiagnosis?
Credit: pixabay There are tens of thousands of commercially available mental health apps on the market, many hugely popular. But...
Parents who had severe trauma, stresses in childhood more likely to have kids with behavioral health problems
A new study finds that severe childhood trauma and stresses early in parents' lives are linked to higher rates of...
Physician burnout in small practices is dramatically lower than national average
Credit: Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Health Physicians who work in small, independent primary care practices--also known as SIPs--report...
