Study updates global burden of cancer
Bottom Line: Population aging and growth largely fueled an increase in cancer cases between 2006 and 2016, and large disparities...
Study of acute myeloid leukemia patients shows protein inhibitor drug safe and effective with durable remissions
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON ? Ivosidenib, an experimental drug that inhibits a protein often mutated in several cancers...
100 bold ideas to improve women and children’s health and rights in the developing world
Credit: Grand Challenges Canada Toronto, Canada - Grand Challenges Canada is proud to announce an investment of over CAD$10 million...
Three studies win top research prizes from PLOS Computational Biology
Credit: Ghaffarizadeh et al., The second annual PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize program has awarded top prizes to three exemplary...
Novel insulators with conducting edges
Credit: UZH Topology examines the properties of objects and solids that are protected against perturbations and deformations. Materials known so...
How might baking soda boost cancer therapy?
MAY 31, 2018, NEW YORK -- A Ludwig Cancer Research study has uncovered an entirely novel mechanism by which cells...
Research brief: New approach boosts effort to scale up biodiversity monitoring
The value of ecological biodiversity for maintaining ecosystem stability and function is well established, but a recent study points to...
Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, June 2018
To arrange for an interview with a researcher, please contact the Communications staff member identified at the end of each...
ASCB awards seven ‘Science Sandbox’ public engagement grants
The American Society for Cell Biology's (ASCB) new Public Engagement Grants, supported by Science Sandbox, an initiative of the Simons...
Novel microscopy technique developed to analyze cellular focal adhesion dynamics
Credit: You Zhou/Brian Cunningham Focal adhesions are large specialized proteins that are located in the area where a cell membrane...
Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center experts present data at 2018 ASCO Annual Meeting
Friday, June 1, 2018, CLEVELAND: At the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago, researchers from Cleveland...
Memory depends on protein ‘off-switch,’ researchers find
Credit: University of Warwick Memory, learning and cognitive flexibility depend on a protein 'off-switch' in the brain, according to a...
In nearly zero energy buildings special attention must be paid to window design
When analysing the different impact of static and dynamic solar shading on nZEBs, the research group developed a tool that...
How to achieve a peaceful coexistence between wolves and humans
The persecution of wolves in order to remove them from human settlements has culminated in their near-disappearance in numerous European...
Dark proteome as focus of a new Priority Program funded by the German Research Foundation
Credit: Gemma Estrada Girona Professor Edward Lemke will be coordinating a new Priority Program researching the formation and function of...
‘Multiomics’ and the newborn mouse heart
During the first days of life, the heart of a newborn mouse adapts to entirely new physiological conditions, larger volume...
New surgery for groin pain found to be more effective than physiotherapy
Credit: University of Warwick As the FIFA World Cup approaches researchers have found that keyhole surgery could help get injured...
New technology for enzyme design
Credit: AK Seibel Enzymes are tools of nature that accelerate almost all biochemical reactions in living cells as biological catalysts....
When push comes to shove: Airway cells propel liver cancer spread to lungs
Credit: Kanazawa University Kanazawa, Japan - Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common form of liver cancer, and the third...
Direct visualization of dynamic structures of protein disaggregation molecular machines
Credit: NINS/IMS When proteins are exposed stresses like a heat shock, they lose their native structure and form toxic insoluble...
