Casey Strale Foundation tops $150,000 in gifts to TGen
Credit: Photo courtesy of TGen NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- April 17, 2018 -- The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an...
Insilico to present the advances in Artificial Intelligence for African pharmaceutical industry
Credit: Insilico Medicine Wednesday, April 118th, 2018, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based company specializing in the application of...
Obesity linked with higher chance of developing rapid, irregular heart rate
HERSHEY, Pa. -- People with obesity are more likely to develop a rapid and irregular heart rate, called atrial fibrillation,...
Screen reader plus keyboard helps blind, low-vision users browse modern webpages
Credit: University of Washington Browsing through offerings on Airbnb means clicking on rows of photos to compare options from prospective...
Researchers identified a protein associated with breast cancer
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - April. 18, 2018 - Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a...
Low-cost anti-hookworm drug boosts female farmers’ physical fitness
Credit: Richard Bugiro, Ph.D. Impoverished female farm workers infected with intestinal parasites known as hookworms saw significant improvements in physical...
First gene therapy treatment to stave off childhood degenerative brain disease wins national clinical excellence award
Washington, D.C. - April 18, 2018 - The Clinical Research (CR) Forum, a non-profit membership association of top clinical research...
An eye toward regeneration
Credit: UNLV Creative Serivces A UNLV scientist and her team have found that frog embryos can fully regrow their eyes...
Antioxidant therapy may reduce cardiovascular risk of young women with type 1 diabetes
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (April 17, 2018) - The high estrogen levels that typically afford...
Diagnosing, treating neuropathy symptoms in cancer patients not exact science
ANN ARBOR--Most of the roughly 15.5 million cancer survivors in the U.S. receive chemotherapy, and roughly 65 percent develop some...
A potential setback in the personalized medicine of cancer
One of the most constant and exhaustive searches in cancer research is for a treatment aimed specifically at the Ras...
Mother’s depression might do the same to her child’s IQ
Credit: UC San Diego Health Roughly one in 10 women in the United States will experience depression, according to the...
Combination therapy strengthens T cells in melanoma pre-clinical study
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center A pre-clinical study of two drugs designed to boost T cell performance, has revealed the...
Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS) 40th Annual Meeting
Bonita Springs, FL-- Smell and taste are vital senses that bring pleasure to daily life, inform us about our environment,...
Kids hit hard by junk food advertising: New research
Junk food ads are shown more frequently on TV at times when many children are watching, new Heart Foundation-funded research...
Bacterial ‘gene swapping’ sparks disease outbreaks
A new study by scientists at the University of Liverpool documents, for the first time, how the ability of bacteria...
PharmaMar discovers new data on the mechanism of action of plitidepsin in tumor cells
Credit: @PharmaMar 2018 PharmaMar (MSE: PHM) has presented during the AACR meeting (American Association for Cancer Research) in Chicago new...
Researchers demonstrate the presence of beta-amyloid dimers in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s
The most widely used biomarkers for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are currently the concentrations of beta-amyloid and...
Safety concerns over tungsten
Credit: Cassidy VanderSchee New research shows how and where tungsten accumulates in bones of mice exposed to the element through...
Observing inflammatory cells in the body
Credit: S. Gran & L. Honold et al./Theranostics 2018(8) The process that the body sets in motion in the event...
