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(University of Warwick) University of Warwick researchers are to improve the lives of India's millions of psychosis sufferers. The National...

£8.6m awarded for global health research

(Queen Mary University of London) Researchers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have secured new awards totaling £8.6m to...

Study discovers anticoagulant drugs are being prescribed against safety advice

(University of Birmingham) The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has awarded £7 million to the Universities of Birmingham, Edinburgh...

Not all muscle building supplements are equal

Credit: University of Stirling Popular muscle building supplements, known as branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) are ineffective when taken in isolation,...

The last survivors on Earth

The world's most indestructible species, the tardigrade, an eight-legged micro-animal, also known as the water bear, will survive until the...

Synchrotron light used to show human domestication of seeds from 2000 BC

Credit: Diamond Light Source Scientists from UCL have used the UK's synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, to document for the...

Bacterium actively drives colorectal cancer tumor cell growth

Credit: Kumar R, et al. (2017) A subspecies of the bacterium Streptococcus gallolyticus appears to actively promote the development of...

Antibody against carcinogenic substance deciphered

Summertime is barbecue time. However, when fat reacts with glowing coal, a substance chemists call benzopyrene is created. It is...

New study sheds light on disease-busting ‘recycling bins’ in our cells

Credit: Sharon Tooze Scientists have made an important step in understanding how cells keep themselves clean and healthy - a...

ASHG honors John Mulvihill with Mentorship Award

Credit: OUHSC BETHESDA, MD - The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named John J. Mulvihill, MD, Children's Hospital...

Side effects not a major problem for new class of breast cancer drugs

A ground-breaking new class of oral drugs for treating breast cancer, known as cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitors, are generally well-tolerated,...

Tall men and obese men at higher risk of aggressive prostate cancer

Men who are tall and obese are at increased risk of high grade prostate cancer and prostate cancer death, according...

Internists reaffirm ‘strongest opposition possible’ to revised BRCA

Washington (July 13, 2017)--On behalf of the American College of Physicians (ACP), today ACP wrote Senate leaders to reaffirm our...

Singapore scientists pave way for better juvenile arthritis diagnosis & treatment outcome prediction

Singapore, 14 July 2017 - A team of scientists and doctors from the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC) has...

Top international award for UNSW Sydney climate scientist

Credit: UNSW The prestigious Tinker-Muse Prize for Science and Policy in Antarctica for 2017 has been awarded to (University of...

Research as Art Awards 2017: Fifteen extraordinary images shed light on the beauty and diversity of research

Credit: Ruth Callaway, Swansea University Fifteen stunning images, and the fascinating stories behind them -- such as how a barn...

Endangered Cuban crocodiles come home

Credit: André Baumgarten/WCS HAVANA, Cuba (July 13, 2017) - Experts from WCS's Global Conservation Programs and WCS's Bronx Zoo assisted...

Stand Up To Cancer, St. Baldrick’s Foundation hail green light for CAR T cell therapy

Credit: Stand Up To Cancer Stand Up To Cancer and the St. Baldrick's Foundation welcomed the Oncology Drugs Advisory Committee's...

Kessler Foundation researchers awarded grants by NJ Commission on Brain Injury Research

Credit: Kessler Foundation Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, Peii Chen, PhD, Ekaterina Dobyrakova, PhD, and Soha Saleh, PhD, all of Kessler Foundation,...

Mountaintop coal mining causes appalachian rivers to run ‘consistently saltier’