Study could spawn better ways to combat crop-killing fungus
Credit: Nick Romanenko/Rutgers University About 21 million years ago, a fungus that causes a devastating disease in rice first became...
Biomarkers and efficacy of vaccine responses among patients treated with new MS drug
LOS ANGELES - In March 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved ocrelizumab as the first treatment for both...
Probiotics useful in the fight against infection prevention
NEW YORK (April 26, 2018) - Probiotics may be a relatively safe, simple, and low-cost solution for preventing Clostridium difficile...
New metric defines areas of highest prostate cancer burden
Credit: Russell McIntire, Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University) (PHILADELPHIA) - To catch prostate cancer at earlier stages, when...
Mid-life chronic inflammation may be linked to frailty later
A study of nearly 6,000 Americans followed for 24 years from middle to late adulthood found that having chronic inflammation...
A biochemical process in plants is imitated to curb the reproduction of colon cancer tumor cells
Plants have provided a new avenue in curbing tumor growth. On this occasion, it doesn't involve miracle species or the...
Meningococcal meningitis: Stomach pain should be seen as a warning sign
© Monet, Fotolia Patients with meningococcal infection generally develop symptoms including a high temperature, vomiting and a stiff neck... but...
Loss of brain synchrony may explain working memory limits, says study
A new study from City, University of London and MIT may have revealed the reasons behind our memory limitations. The...
Who is using guns for suicide?
(Boston)--The average profile of an American using a gun for suicide is a married, white male over the age of...
Smartphone app keeps an ‘eye’ on daily tuberculosis therapy
Johns Hopkins researchers report success with a smart phone video-based app that substitutes for a daily in-person visit by a...
Curiosity is key to early childhood success in math and reading
Curious children are better able to grasp basic math and reading. This is according to a group of researchers from...
Quality cancer care: Not just a matter of anti-cancer medicines
LUGANO, 26 April 2018 - ESMO, the leading professional organisation for medical oncology, shares concerns expressed in a scientific paper...
PARP-1 may be key to effectiveness of PARP inhibitors, and now researchers can image it
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Penn Medicine researchers have used CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology to isolate a key genetic feature...
RNA editing study shows potential for more effective precision cancer treatment
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center If there is one thing all cancers have in common, it is they have nothing...
Zika virus eliminates advanced human tumor in central nervous system of rodents
Credit: HUG-CELL A Brazilian study published April 26 in the journal Cancer Research shows for the first time in vivo...
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VA delivers higher quality care than other health providers, study finds
The VA health care system performs similar to or better than non-VA systems on most measures of inpatient and outpatient...
CRISPR/Cas9 silences gene associated with high cholesterol
Credit: Charles Gersbach, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers at Duke University have used a CRISPR/Cas9 genetic engineering technique...
Neonicotinoids may alter estrogen production in humans
Neonicotinoids are currently the most widely used pesticides in the world and frequently make headlines because of their harmful effects...
Researchers assassinate disease-causing bacteria with virus cocktail
Credit: The graph was generated using proprietary PhageSelector™ program developed by Intralytix, Inc. Imagine that you have become ill because...
