These mutations could be key to understanding how some harmful conditions develop
A team of researchers led by a bioinformatician at the University of California San Diego has developed a method to...
UAlberta chemist creates next generation of neuroscience tools
UAlberta chemistry professor Robert Campbell is developing new ways to see and manipulate the activity of neurons in the brain,...
Airline industry could fly thousands of miles on biofuel from a new promising feedstock
Credit: Claire Benjamin/University of Illinois A Boeing 747 burns one gallon of jet fuel each second. A recent analysis from...
Study of circular DNA comes full circle with use of old technique
Credit: University of Texas at Dallas A 50-year-old lab technique is helping researchers better understand circular DNA, a lesser-known and...
Key process to be modernized in production of life-saving drugs, food preservation
Credit: (Purdue University image/Erin Easterling) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A consortium of experts is working to modernize a process that...
New book on Prion Biology from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: Carlo Condello, University of California, San Francisco Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) announced...
Why your ancestors would have aced the long jump
Credit: Photo by Douglas Boyer, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- A 52-million-year-old ankle fossil suggests our prehuman ancestors were high-flying...
Body’s own defense against ALS actually drives disease progression at later stages
Credit: Tom Maniatis/Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK -- Columbia scientists have discovered that one of the body's natural defenses...
New evidence suggests octupuses aren’t loners
Credit: Peter Godfrey-Smith. Octopuses are usually solitary creatures, but a new site in the waters off the east coast of...
Rising CO2 leading to changes in land plant photosynthesis
Researchers led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have determined that major changes in...
Scientists discover genetic timetable of brain’s aging process
The programme controls how and when brain genes are expressed at different times in a person's life to perform a...
Ambry Genetics & NorthShore University HealthSystem partner to advance precision medicine
Credit: Jonathan Hillenbrand Aliso Viejo, CA and Evanston, IL (September 12, 2017): Ambry Genetics (Ambry), a leading clinical genetics-testing lab,...
Neck mass in adults: Guideline for evaluation provides framework for timely diagnosis
CHICAGO, IL --With the development of the Clinical Practice Guideline: Evaluation of the Neck Mass in Adults, published today in...
Abdominal fat a key cancer driver for postmenopausal women
LUGANO-MADRID, 10 September, 2017 - Body fat distribution in the trunk is more important than body weight when it comes...
Cancer patients struggle with key aspects of clinical trial methodology
LUGANO-MADRID, 10 September, 2017 - Clinical trials are fundamental to the development of new treatments for cancer, yet the annual...
E-cigarettes linked to increased arterial stiffness, blood pressure and heart rate in humans
Milan, Italy: New research has shown for the first time that e-cigarettes with nicotine cause a stiffening of the arteries...
Incidence of acute myocardial infarction may increase the day after Asian dust exposure
(Kumamoto University) A recent environmental epidemiological study has shown that Asian sand particles from desert areas of the Asian continent...
Patients feel psycho-social impact of chemo more acutely than physical side effects
LUGANO-MADRID, 09 September, 2017 -The preliminary results of a study to be presented at the ESMO 2017 Congress in Madrid...
‘Triggers’: A new tool to assess cancer patients’ palliative needs
LUGANO-MADRID, 9 September, 2017 - A new tool to identify patients who would benefit from early palliative care will be...
Study identifies factors that limit work ability of young adult cancer survivors
LUGANO-MADRID, 9 September 2017 - Factors that limit the work ability of young adult cancer survivors are reported today at...
