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(University of Liege) Researchers have revealed that malignant melanoma can reprogram their protein synthesis machinery and become addicted to a...

Potential to replace race as a risk factor for kidney-transplant failure

Credit: Children's National Health System Right now, more than 100,000 adult and pediatric patients in the U.S. are waiting for...

Rare in-vivo study shows weak brain nodes have strong influence on memory network

Our ability to learn, remember, problem solve, and speak are all cognitive functions related to different parts of our brain....

In mice, stem cells seem to work in fighting obesity! What about stem cells in humans?

Obesity is an increasing global health problem associated with several comorbidities and a high risk of mortality. A wide spectrum...

The World’s tiniest first responders

Credit: Yekaterina Kadyshevskaya, USC The cell has its own paramedic team and emergency room to aid and repair damaged DNA,...

UA researchers develop novel ‘lung-on-a-leaf’ model to study pulmonary diseases

Credit: UA College of Medicine - Phoenix Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix have developed...

Cell-free DNA profiling informative way to monitor urinary tract infections

ITHACA, N.Y. - Using shotgun DNA sequencing, Cornell University researchers have demonstrated a new method for monitoring urinary tract infections...

Emergency department patients want to be invited to share in medical decision-making

DES PLAINES, IL--Most emergency department patients want to be involved in some aspects of medical decision-making, but they need to...

Rhesus macaque model offers route to study Zika brain pathology

Rhesus macaque monkeys infected in utero with Zika virus develop similar brain pathology to human infants, according to a report...

DNA barcodes that reliably work: A game-changer for biomedical research

Credit: Richard Wheeler (Zephyris). Used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. In the same way that barcodes on your...

American Psychological Association’s 126th Annual Convention Aug. 9 – 12, 2018, San Francisco

The American Psychological Association's 126th annual convention will take place Aug. 9-12, 2018, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco....

New ‘e-dermis’ brings sense of touch, pain to prosthetic hands

Credit: Science Robotics/AAAS Amputees often experience the sensation of a "phantom limb"--a feeling that a missing body part is still...

IASLC issues statement paper on liquid biopsy for lung cancer

DENVER - The lungs can be a difficult organ to biopsy with a needle, so the promise of identifying lung...

ESA announces the recipients of the 2017 Student Awards

Credit: Michel T. Kohl June 19, 2018 For Immediate Release Contact: Zoe Gentes, 202-833-8773 ext. 211, [email protected]">[email protected] The Ecological Society...

Pediatric cancer diagnosis comes of age at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Credit: Photo courtesy of Michelle's family "We thought she had a bug bite," says Michelle's mom, "but it turned out...

Preeminent cancer biologist Brian Druker, M.D., receives international science award

OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Director Brian J. Druker, M.D., has been awarded the 2018 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science for...

Risks of cancer and mortality by average lifetime alcohol intake

Credit: Free-Photos, Pixabay The risk of mortality, and of developing a number of cancers, is lowest in light drinkers consuming...

Ocean’s heat cycle shows that atmospheric carbon may be headed elsewhere

As humans continue to pump the atmosphere with carbon, it's crucial for scientists to understand how and where the planet...

D for danger! Speech sounds convey emotions

Credit: Paolo Tonato Individual speech sounds - phonemes - are statistically associated with negative or positive emotions in several languages,...

Game-changing finding pushes 3D-printing to the molecular limit