NIH researchers crack mystery behind rare bone disorder
Credit: National Institutes of Health Researchers at the National Institutes of Health worked with 15 patients from around the world...
The Rivkin Center awards $1.185 million in ovarian cancer research grants
Seattle, WA (April 11, 2018) -- The Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer, a Seattle-based 501(c)(3), announced that it has awarded...
Fungi in fashion
Credit: University of Delaware/ Wenbo Fan Two University of Delaware students put their best foot forward at this year's National...
One thing leads to another: Causal chains link health, development, and conservation
The BioScience Talks podcast features discussions of topical issues related to the biological sciences. The linkages between environmental health and...
New bioinformatics tool identifies and classifies CRISPR-Cas systems
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 11, 2018--Designed to improve the utility and availability of increasingly...
Study reveals declining central American frog species are bouncing back
Credit: Photo by Louise Rollins-Smith, Ph.D. For more than 40 years, frog populations around the world have been declining. Now,...
Moving patient treatment forward through Diagnostics North East
A platform bringing together world-leading diagnostic resources and expertise to develop new and innovative technologies to improve patient health and...
How to catch a fish genome with big data
Credit: Fishbase If you eat fish in the U.S., chances are it once swam in another country. That's because the...
Biologically inspired membrane purges coal-fired smoke of greenhouse gases
Credit: Randy Montoya, Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A biologically inspired membrane intended to cleanse carbon dioxide almost completely...
Scientists discover a role for ‘junk’ DNA
ANN ARBOR -- Researchers at the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have determined...
Viagra has the potential to be used as a treatment for rare cancers
Credit: ecancermedicalscience The class of drugs currently prescribed to treat male erectile dysfunction has been flagged for its potential to...
How do children develop immunity to malaria as they become older?
Credit: CWRU School of Medicine Across the world, over 200 million cases of malaria and nearly 500,000 deaths from the...
Karger Publishers strengthens its clinical decision support business
Karger Publishers has acquired Health Press Ltd to strengthen its clinical decision support business. On March 29, Karger Publishers acquired...
Airway disease in racehorses more prevalent than previously thought, U of G study finds
Credit: David Landry Racehorses need their breath to run their best. But inflammatory airway disease (IAD) can rob them of...