Caribbean spiders named for Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders David Bowie, and others
A new paper published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has identified and named 15 new species of...
The drying of peatlands is reducing bird diversity
Credit: Aleksi Lehikoinen A recent international study indicates that the populations of peatland birds in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia and...
$1.4 million grant to fund LSU health research pipeline
New Orleans, LA - The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has awarded LSU Health New Orleans a $1.4...
Warming climate could increase bacterial impacts on Chesapeake Bay shellfish, recreation
Researchers have found that three common species of Vibrio bacteria in Chesapeake Bay could increase with changing climate conditions by...
Notre Dame cancer researchers publish new papers on ovarian cancer tumor growth
Credit: Matt Cashore Two papers involving ovarian cancer research at the University of Notre Dame's Harper Cancer Research Institute (HCRI),...
Scientists unlock mysteries of how Ebola uses people’s immune defenses to cause infection
GALVESTON, Texas - Scientists from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have gained new insight into how the...
Amount of water in stem cells can determine its fate as fat or bone
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers. BUFFALO, N.Y. - Adding or removing water from a stem cell can change the destiny...
Portland State study links cancerous toxins to cannabis extract
(Portland, Ore.) Sept. 25, 2017 - Researchers at Portland State University found benzene and other potentially cancer-causing chemicals in the...
Illinois researchers develop gene circuit design strategy to advance synthetic biology
Credit: University of Illinois Department of Bioengineering. Over the last 17 years, scientists and engineers have developed synthetic gene circuits...
New study funded points to unexpected benefits of rabies vaccination in dogs
The rabies vaccine is extremely effective at preventing this fatal disease in dogs, but new research, funded by Morris Animal...
Caribbean praying mantises have ancient African origin
Credit: Gavin Svenson, Ph.D. Three seemingly unrelated praying mantis groups inhabiting Cuba and the rest of the Greater Antilles actually...
Ethnic minorities and the elderly are underrepresented in cancer clinical trials
ATLANTA -- Many ethnic minority groups and elderly Americans are underrepresented in cancer clinical trials, according to results of a...
People of Mexican decent in US have more liver cancer risk factors than those living in Mexico
ATLANTA -- Mexican-Americans living in the United States demonstrated more risk factors for liver cancer than their counterparts in Mexico,...
Religiously tailored educational intervention lead more Muslim women to get mammograms
ATLANTA -- A religiously sensitive educational effort designed to address barriers to mammography for Muslim women increased the women's perceived...
Tumor microenvironment of TNBC varies between African-American and European-American women
ATLANTA -- The presence of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) varied significantly in the tumors of African-American and European-American women with triple...
Halving radiation therapy for HPV-related throat cancer offers fewer side effects, similar outcomes
SAN DIEGO - Mayo Clinic researchers have found that a 50 percent reduction in the intensity and dose of radiation...
Trial confirms pelvic radiation as standard of care for high-risk endometrial cancer
Credit: Marcus Randall, M.D., FASTRO SAN DIEGO, September 25, 2017 - In a new phase III trial report from the...
Prostaglandin EI inhibits leukemia stem cells
Two drugs, already approved for safe use in people, may be able to improve therapy for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML),...
Radiation+immunotherapy can slow tumor growth for some patients with metastatic NSCLC
Credit: James Welsh, MD SAN DIEGO, September 24, 2017 - A new study involving patients with stage IV cancer finds...
Streamlined process opens drug development to a new class of steroids
Researchers at Dartmouth College have developed a technique to produce synthetic steroids that could pave the way for a cascade...
