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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...

Respiratory tract infections in young children linked to asthma and worse lung function

Milan, Italy: Respiratory tract infections in young children are linked to an increased risk of asthma and worse lung function...

Medicaid expansion linked to lower uninsured rates

New research led by American Cancer Society researchers finds that after full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the...

Rucaparib boosts progression-free survival in BRCA mutant recurrent ovarian cancer

LUGANO-MADRID, 8 September, 2017 - Rucaparib maintenance therapy increases progression-free survival in BRCA mutant recurrent ovarian cancer by 77%, according...

Patients with high risk prostate cancer may benefit ‘equally’ from two new treatments

LUGANO-MADRID, 8 September, 2017 - Patients with high risk prostate cancer starting long-term hormone therapy may benefit from two new...

New data confirms superiority of docetaxel based triplet therapy in gastric cancer