New insight into why leukaemia drug is successful
Researchers at the University of Southampton have shed new light on why and how a new class of drug is...
Use of prescription analgesics differs significantly between persons with and without Alzheimer’s
Approximately one third of persons with Alzheimer's disease use prescription medicines for pain after their diagnosis, reports a recent study...
Using drugs for different diseases than initially intended for
Credit: University of Southern Denmark One drug, one disease. This is how we traditionally think about pharmaceutical drugs, but many...
Platypus venom could hold key to diabetes treatment
Credit: No credit supplied. Australian researchers have discovered remarkable evolutionary changes to insulin regulation in two of the nation's most...
Enzyme research provides a new picture of depression
Despite the fact that more than four percent of the world's population suffer from depression, and even though approximately 1,500...
1 in 7 people living with HIV in the EU/EEA are not aware of their HIV status
Credit: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC. With 29 747 newly reported HIV infections in 2015, the EU/EEA...
The good, the bad and the spliceosome!
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) The Fas protein can either inhibit or promote the controlled...
Komodo dragons help researchers understand microbial health in captive animals
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Humans and Komodo dragons, the largest lizards in the world, could not be more different. In...
Huntington’s disease affects muscle as well as neurons, study reveals
Credit: Miranda et al., 2017 Researchers have discovered that mice with Huntington's disease (HD) suffer defects in muscle maturation that...
Management of feral horses an ongoing challenge in the United States
Philadelphia, PA, November 29, 2016 - Feral horses are free-ranging descendants of once-domesticated horses. All free-ranging horses in North America...
Study says salt marshes have limited ability to absorb excess nitrogen
Credit: Photo by DS Johnson/VIMS. Add fertilizer to your garden and your plants will probably grow bigger and taller. Add...
A molecular switch between life, sex and death
Credit: Copyright: Florian Raible, University of Vienna All organisms need energy, but sources of energy such as food are usually...
Kew supports Mexico in race against time to protect incredible biodiversity
One of the world's leading botanical science research institutions, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is celebrating 15 years of partnerships...
WDS DSA announce unified requirements for Core Trustworthy Data Repositories certification
Credit: DSA and WDS Tokyo, Japan and The Hague, Netherlands - 25 November 2016 - The ICSU World Data System...
Walking faster after stroke, managing chemobrain after cancer
Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute researchers recently presented results from two studies at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. The annual...
NIJ grant to develop investigative tool for counterfeit bills
Credit: Harriet McHale/SHSU HUNTSVILLE, TX (11-29-16) -- Patrick Buzzini of Sam Houston State University received a National Institute of Justice...
Enhanced CRISPR lets scientists explore all steps of health and disease in every cell type
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and University of Cambridge researchers have created sOPTiKO, a more efficient and controllable CRISPR genome editing...
A new record at BESSY II: 10 million ions cooled for the first time to 7.4 K
Credit: T. Lau/HZB Previously it was only possible to cool down about one thousand ions to 7.5 K using buffer...
Brain pattern flexibility and behavior
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (November 16, 2016)--Your brain is never really at rest. Neither is it in chaos. Even when not...
Daily reminders to increase calcium intake are effective
Credit: UBC UBC researchers have demonstrated that simple, cost-effective email messages can help improve the health habits of Canadians. Mary...
