GLUT5 fluorescent probe fingerprints cancer cells
Credit: Tanasova, Rao/Michigan Tech Determining the presence of cancer, as well as its type and malignancy, is a stressful process...
UPV/EHU researchers account for the complex symptoms of Angelman syndrome
The group, led by the Ikerbasque professor Ugo Mayor of the UPV/EHU's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has just...
Pregnant moms and their offspring should limit added sugars in their diets to protect childhood cognition
Ann Arbor, April 19, 2018 - A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has determined that...
IU psychologist awarded $1.7 million to study early child language learning
Credit: Photo by Chris Meyer, IU Communications. An Indiana University psychologist has been awarded $1.7 million from the National Institutes...
Ann McKee named to TIME’S Annual List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World
(Boston) -TIME magazine has named Ann McKee, MD, Chief of Neuropathology, VA Boston Healthcare System, and Director of the BU...
Does concussion recovery and symptom severity differ between men and women?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 19, 2018--A new study comparing male and female athletes examined...
Researchers use imaging technology to screen for colorectal cancer in young adults
BOSTON-- Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the country. While the rates of colorectal cancer...
Study provides video evidence of parental infanticide in a grassland bird species
Credit: Scott Nelson URBANA, Ill. - Baby birds go missing from their nests all the time. Usually, the disappearances are...
Penn Medicine’s Carl June named one of Time Magazine’s most influential people
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - TIME named University of Pennsylvania cancer and HIV gene therapy pioneer Carl June, MD, to...
Homemade microscope reveals how a cancer-causing virus clings to our DNA
Credit: M. Mitchell Smith, University of Virginia School of Medicine Using a homemade, high-tech microscope, scientists at the University of...
Spider silk key to new bone-fixing composite
Credit: Image courtesy of Bryant Heimbach/UConn University of Connecticut researchers have created a biodegradable composite made of silk fibers that...
Smartphone app successfully promotes child car seat safety
A smartphone app designed to promote proper child car seat use among parents proved effective in a study led by...
Young victims of cyberbullying twice as likely to attempt suicide and self-harm
Credit: Swansea University Children and young people under 25 who are victims of cyberbullying are more than twice as likely...
Landmark study links tumor evolution to prostate cancer severity
Toronto (April 19, 2018) - Findings from Canadian Prostate Cancer Genome Network (CPC-GENE) researchers and their collaborators, published today in...
Study may explain why some triple-negative breast cancers are resistant to chemotherapy
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive form of the disease accounting for 12 to...
Putting proteins in their proper place
Credit: James Shorter, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Cell PHILADELPHIA - A host of special molecules called nuclear...
Toward a new water paradigm
Good intentions are not the same as good results - as much as half of all water and sanitations systems...
Mount Sinai partners with Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to bring big data solution to biology
Uri Laserson, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at...
EPFL scientists become part of international effort to create Human Cell Atlas
"The automated single-cell analysis pipeline is a software tool that catalyzes interdisciplinary work as it allows non-expert labs to engage...
Novel antioxidant makes old blood vessels seem young again
Older adults who take a novel antioxidant that specifically targets cellular powerhouses, or mitochondria, see age-related vascular changes reverse by...
