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(Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) In experiments with mice, a Brazilian research group showed that,...

Landmark Glycobiology textbook now available in print and online

Credit: Courtesy of Jim Huntington, Professor of Molecular Haemostasis, University of Cambridge. Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor...

New class of molecules may protect brain from stroke, neurodegenerative diseases

Credit: LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence New Orleans, LA - Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD,...

Answer three questions and save half the world’s biodiversity

A growing international movement called "Half Earth" calls for preserving 50 percent of the world's biodiversity. In today's Nature News...

Mini-protein rapid design method opens way to create a new class of drugs

Credit: Randy Carnell/UW Medicine Scientists have created a high-speed method to generate thousands of different, small, stable proteins from scratch...

New test rapidly diagnoses Zika

Credit: Courtesy of the researchers CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT researchers have developed a paper-based test that can diagnose Zika infection...

OU research group awarded $10.5 million NIH COBRE grant

Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma research team led by Ann West, professor of chemistry and biochemistry in...

Summer could be one long heatwave if planet hits 2 degrees C

Credit: Anna Jiménez Calaf on Unsplash Summer in some regions of the world will become one long heatwave even if...

Pioneering bacterial energetics and antimicrobial resisitance group honored

A world-leading team of microbiologists, whose work on a novel new way to fight TB infections shows great promise, has...

Study suggests an answer to young people’s persistent sleep problems

(James Cook University) A collaborative research project involving James Cook University and the University of Queensland indicates high rates of...

Preventing Zika from being transmitted to fetus is goal of new NIH grant to Hawaii

New funding awarded to the University of Hawaii (UH) may lead to solution to a compelling dilemma -- a way...

University of Hawaii awarded nearly $6.3 million to develop trivalent Ebola vaccine

September 28, 2017

Credit: Amanda Shell, UH-JABSOM University of Hawaii vaccine researcher Axel Lehrer, PhD, has received a nearly $6.3 million grant to...

DNA-level biomarker can predict overall survival for rare brain tumors

COLUMBUS, Ohio - MGMT promoter methylation status -- information gathered at a DNA-level -- can help predict overall survival for...

UA Cancer Center team identifies a switch that may help target dormant cancer cells

Credit: Dr. Cecil Fox, National Cancer Institute TUCSON, Ariz. - A study by scientists at the University of Arizona and...

Uninsured cancer patients saw increased coverage for care following Medicaid expansion

Credit: Fumiko Chino, M.D. SAN DIEGO, September 26, 2017 - A new study finds that Medicaid expansion enacted as part...

ACA Medicaid expansion cut disparities in cancer care for minorities, poor

Credit: Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- States that fully expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act cut their...

New system proposed for logging physician experience in robotic surgeries

MAYWOOD, IL - Loyola Medicine physicians have proposed a simple new system to improve the reporting of robotic surgeries performed...

The Children’s Tumor Foundation and PLOS ONE are pleased to announce partnership

The Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF) and PLOS ONE are collaborating on a new funding program in the area of neurofibromatosis...

Drug combo gangs up to take on triple-negative breast cancer

Credit: University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center Society of Surgical Oncology, National Institutes of Health, A Sister's Hope Foundation, Saslow...

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