Specialists make breakthrough in the treatment of anal cancer
Specialists at The Christie and The University of Manchester have made a breakthrough which could potentially improve detection and treatment...
Blood biopsy reveals unique, targetable genetic alterations in patients with rare cancer
Credit: UC San Diego Health Using fragments of circulating tumor DNA in blood, University of California San Diego School of...
Insilico establishes collaboration with GSK to discover novel biological targets and molecules
Credit: Insilico Medicine,Inc. Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, Baltimore, Md. - Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based company at the forefront of artificial...
Researchers map brain tumor cells’ adaptation to oxygen deprivation
Credit: Louise Cornmark The most aggressive variant of brain tumour - glioblastoma - has an average survival rate of 15...
Researchers identify oestrogen receptor stem cells in the in the mammary gland
One of the key questions in stem cell and cancer biology is to understand the cellular hierarchy governing tissue development...
For post-menopausal women, vaginal estrogens do not raise risk of cancer, other diseases
Credit: Women's Health Initiative FINDINGS Women who have gone through menopause and who have been using a vaginal form of...
UTSA professor receives $1.5 million grant to study male infertility
(SAN ANTONIO, August 16, 2017) -- Brian Hermann, assistant professor of biology at The University of Texas at San Antonio,...
The environmental injustice of beauty
Credit: Courtesy of Snapshot WASHINGTON, DC (August 16, 2017)-- Women of color have higher levels of beauty-product-related chemicals in their...
Genetic variants found to play key role in human immune system
Credit: Study authors NEW YORK (August 16, 2017) - It is widely recognized that people respond differently to infections. This...
The irresistible fragrance of dying vinegar flies
Credit: Anna Schroll Markus Knaden and Bill Hansson, and their colleagues at the Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, study ecologically relevant...
Fish database could help eliminate the ultimate bait and switch
Fish fraud, the misrepresentation of cheaper fish as more expensive ones, is a rampant problem worldwide. Now in a study...
New report outlines research agenda for microbiomes, indoor environments, and human health
WASHINGTON - Even with a growing body of research on microorganisms and humans in indoor environments, many of their interconnections...
A decade of monitoring shows the dynamics of a conserved Atlantic tropical forest
Credit: Hugo Cândido Galvão Characterised with its immense biodiversity and high levels of endemism, the Atlantic Tropical Forest has been...
Popular sungazer lizards under threat from poaching
Credit: Shivan Parusnath/Wits University The Sungazer (Smaug giganteus), a dragon-like lizard species endemic to the Highveld regions of South Africa,...
Going ‘green’ with plant-based resins
Airplanes, electronics and solar cells are all in demand, but the materials holding these items together -- epoxy thermosets --...
Turning pollen into a low-cost fertilizer
Credit: American Chemical Society As the world population continues to balloon, agricultural experts puzzle over how farms will produce enough...
Voter behavior influenced by hot weather
Political rebellions and riots have been associated with warmer weather, but until now, there has been little research on its...
HIIT helps combat high insulin resistance — a warning sign for diabetes
A new study published in Frontiers in Physiology suggests that High-Intensity Interval Training is an efficient, effective way of cutting...
Biophysics explains how immune cells kill bacteria
Credit: Scientific Reports (Tokyo, August 16) A new data analysis technique, moving subtrajectory analysis, designed by researchers at Tokyo Institute...
University of Stirling team discovers new plant in Shetland
Credit: University of Stirling Scientists at the University of Stirling have discovered a new type of plant growing in Shetland...
