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Steephead parrotfish (Chlorurus microrhinos) are picky eaters. In the central Pacific, however, they appear to have taken matters into their...

Poll: Majority of Americans say tackle football is unsafe for young kids

LOWELL, Mass. - A majority of Americans believe it is not safe for children to play tackle football before they...

Preeclampsia may boost heart disease risk by altering blood vessels

Preeclampsia may permanently change the blood vessels of women who experience the condition during pregnancy, boosting their lifelong risk for...

NIH awards $15 million to support development of 3-D human tissue models

More than 60 percent of investigational drugs fail in human clinical trials due to a lack of effectiveness, despite promising...

USDA announces more than $8.6 million to support community food projects

WASHINGTON, D.C September 12, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today...

UT faculty member helps identify new species of prehistoric crocodile

Credit: Stephanie Drumheller-Horton Around 95 million years ago, a giant relative of modern crocodiles ruled the coastlines and waterways of...

Superior pathological diagnosis using transparent tissues

September 13, 2017

Credit: 2017 Nojima S. et al. Scientific Reports, 7:9269, 1-14. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-09117-0 (Osaka, Japan) To some, the idea of invisibility...

Mitochondrial metastasis suppressor pathway controls tumor cell metabolic reprogramming

PHILADELPHIA -- (Sept. 11, 2017) -- A novel mitochondrial variant of the protein Syntaphilin, or SNPH, which orchestrates the choice...

Osimertinib improves progression-free survival in patients with EGFR mutated lung cancer

LUGANO-MADRID, 9 September, 2017 - Osimertinib improves progression-free survival by 54% compared to standard first line therapy in patients with...

Abemaciclib initial therapy improves outcome in endocrine-sensitive advanced breast cancer

LUGANO-MADRID, 10 September, 2017 - The results of the MONARCH 3 trial, presented at the ESMO 2017 Congress in Madrid...

To improve health monitoring, simply trip the ‘nanoswitch’

Engineered strands of DNA -- nanoscale tools called "nanoswitches" -- could be the key to faster, easier, cheaper and more...

Smoking slowly changes lung cells to increase the odds for cancer

Cigarette smoke causes epigenetic changes in lung cells that prime them to develop cancer, and researchers can now observe how...

‘Epigenetic’ changes from cigarette smoke may be first step in lung cancer development

Credit: Jennifer Fairman Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have preliminary evidence in laboratory-grown, human airway...

Cell surface protein may offer big target in treating high-risk childhood cancers

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Oncology researchers studying high-risk children's cancers have identified a protein that offers a likely target...

The turbulent healing powers of plasma

Credit: {FEATUREDCREDIT}{FEATUREDCREDITMORE} WASHINGTON, D.C., September 11, 2017 -- Researchers are starting to discover the curing powers of plasma -- bringing...

Chronic cell death promotes liver cancer

Liver cancer occurs predominantly in patients whose liver has been damaged as a result of chronic disease. Until now it...

Modulating T-cell metabolism uncovers new technology for enhancing immunotherapy

PHILADELPHIA -- (Sept. 11, 2017) -- T lymphocytes found in tumors and implicated in killing tumor cells cope with the...

UCLA opens clinical trial for cancers with the NY-ESO-1 tumor marker

Credit: Photo courtesy of: UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Scientists at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine...

DNA looping architecture may lead to opportunities to treat brain tumors

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine The discovery of a mechanism by which normal brain cells regulate the expression of the...

The 2017 Balzan Prizewinners announced today in Milan