Youth need different approach to type 2 diabetes treatment
Credit: Children's Hospital Colorado A major study has found that medicines used to treat diabetes in adults are not effective...
New technology transforming blood & stem cell collection
A new cord blood processing technology, Toticyte, developed by the UK's leading blood cord bank, Cells4life, has been launched to...
WSU researchers establish new tool to study Cryptosporidium in healthy tissues
PULLMAN, WA - Washington State University researchers have developed a new approach for studying Cryptosporidium, a waterborne gastrointestinal parasite now...
Opening of the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Scientific evidence as an answer to fake news - this is the guiding idea of the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate...
Novel nuclear medicine probe will help assess new drugs for neurodegenerative diseases
Credit: Z Cai and S Li et al., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. PHILADELPHIA - New nuclear medicine tracers could...
Combining targeted radionuclide therapy and immunotherapy could improve melanoma survival
Credit: R Hernandez, R Patel, et al., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisc. PHILADELPHIA - Research presented at the 2018 Annual...
Risk of autism increased in children of mothers with diabetes
Bottom Line: The risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was increased in children of mothers with the three main types...
Improved PSMA-targeting agent more effective for prostate cancer diagnosis/therapy in mice
Credit: Z Wang et al., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD PHILADELPHIA - Research presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting...
Novel PET tracer successfully images cardiovascular infections
Credit: Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA. PHILADELPHIA - A novel positron emission tomography...
New research on avian response to wildfires
As we enter another wildfire season in California, attention will turn to the inevitable fires and efforts to extinguish them....
Coral reef scientist receives royal honor
Credit: Credit: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies/ James Kerry The exemplary research of Distinguished Professor Terry Hughes,...
UT Institute of Agriculture announces new Herbert College of Agriculture
Credit: UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees formally announced today the new Herbert College of...
Miniature testing of drug pairs on tumor biopsies
Credit: IMAGE - Ramesh Utharala, EMBL Combinations of cancer drugs can be quickly and cheaply tested on tumour cells using...
Low-cost plastic sensors could monitor a range of health conditions
Credit: KAUST An international team of researchers have developed a low-cost sensor made from semiconducting plastic that can be used...
When low batteries are a good thing
Credit: Å pela Konjar, iMM. Every day the human gut works on a fine-tuned balance that ensures the retention of essential...
First step to lasting wheat health
Substantial reductions in a deadly root disease of wheat crops and corresponding increases in yields of grain and straw mark...
About face: Special collection of papers celebrates research on how the human face forms
Credit: Peter Claes and Mark D. Shriver Our faces can reveal a lot about us, and now scientists are revealing...
GA4GH streaming API htsget a bridge to the future for modern genomic data processing
HINXTON, United Kingdom (June 22, 2018) -- The Large Scale Genomics Work Stream of the Global Alliance for Genomics and...
Nuclear Engineering expert honored by Health Physics Society
Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Nuclear engineering expert George Xu, the Edward E. Hood Jr. Endowed Chair of Engineering at Rensselaer...
Hydrangeas, the strange color-changing flowers (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 22, 2018 -- Savvy gardeners know that they can adjust the color of...
