New strategy for vaccinating pregnant mothers against malaria holds promise for protecting infants
Washington, DC - September 5, 2017 - A mother and infant in Malawi have the same repertoire of antibodies to...
New book on disaster risk governance in India
Credit: Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) While Dr. Indrajit Pal serves in Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management, in AIT's Department...
The protein TAZ sends ‘mixed signals’ to stem cells
Credit: Image by Xingliang Zhou/Ying Lab, USC Stem Cell Just as beauty exists in the eye of the beholder, a...
Research dog helps scientists save endangered carnivores
Credit: Photo: Courtesy of Karen DeMatteo Scat-sniffing research dogs are helping scientists map out a plan to save reclusive jaguars,...
Team finds way to measure key cell regulator’s activity
Credit: UT Health San Antonio UT Health San Antonio researchers and co-authors in New York state on Monday (Sept. 4)...
PSA screening significantly reduces the risk for death from prostate cancer
1. Re-analysis of evidence suggests that PSA screening significantly reduces the risk for death from prostate cancer Abstract: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M16-2586 Editorial:...
DNA and protein ‘liquid biopsy’ for early pancreatic cancer better than either alone
Johns Hopkins scientists say they have developed a blood test that spots tumor-specific DNA and protein biomarkers for early-stage pancreatic...
ICON8 trial reaffirms standard dosing in ovarian cancer chemo
LUGANO-MADRID, 04 September, 2017 - European women with ovarian cancer can safely stick to the standard three-week dosing schedule for...
Reindeer grazing protects tundra plant diversity in a warming climate
Credit: Elina Kaarlejärvi Climate warming reduces the number of plant species in the tundra, but plant-eating animals, such as reindeer...
Team gathers unprecedented data on atmosphere’s organic chemistry
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- For a few weeks over the summer in 2011, teams of scientists from around the world converged...
More ‘losers’ than ‘winners’ predicted for Southern Ocean seafloor animals
Credit: Cath Waller A new study of the marine invertebrates living in the seas around Antarctica reveals there will be...
New fluorescent dyes could advance biological imaging
Credit: Jonathan B. Grimm With a new technique to craft a spectrum of glowing dyes, chemists are no longer chasing...
Mysterious protein-folding molecule could trigger metabolic disorders
Credit: Illustration provided courtesy of Dr. Feng Hong of the Medical University of South Carolina. The cell's response to unfolded...
Superfly flight simulator helps unravel navigation in the brain
Researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have identified two independent pathways in the fly brain that are...
Schizophrenia and memory deficits: Solving the mystery behind a most stubborn symptom
Credit: Jeffrey Zaremba/Losonczy Lab/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK -- A team of Columbia scientists has found that disruptions to the...
Epileptic brain activity in widely used lab mice
Credit: Steinmetz et al., eNeuro (2017) Multiple laboratories have observed unusual neural activity resembling epilepsy in some lines of genetically...
Mobile women were key to cultural exchange in Stone Age and Bronze Age Europe
Credit: Stadtarchäologie Augsburg At the end of the Stone Age and in the early Bronze Age, families were established in...
Experts call for added focus on the impact of glacier mass loss on downstream systems
Credit: Dr. Lee Brown, University of Leeds Researchers have warned of an 'urgent worldwide need' to address a broad spectrum...
Researchers take a holistic approach to threats to humanity
What risks threaten the entire future of humanity within the next hundred years? And what should we do to protect...
Deadly parasite messaging tactic may help curb sleeping sickness
New insight into sleeping sickness suggests communication between parasites that cause infection could affect the severity and spread of the...
