Homeopathy — The undiluted facts
Credit: Springer As a junior doctor, Edzard Ernst worked in a homeopathic hospital, practised homeopathy, and was impressed with its...
Collapse of mitochondria-associated membrane in ALS
Credit: (c) Koji Yamanaka laboratory Nagoya, Japan - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an adult onset, fetal neurodegenerative disease that...
Solving the puzzle of necroptosis
Cell death is an essential physiological process for all multicellular organisms. Throughout life, cells in many tissues die naturally and...
Humans proven to recognize partially obscured snakes more easily than other animals
Credit: Nobuyuki Kawai Nagoya, Japan - Some studies have suggested that the visual systems of humans and other primates are...
Blood fats equal risk of pancreatitis
New research from the University of Copenhagen shows that mild to moderate levels of blood fats equals an increased risk...
Medical professors question ‘residency placement fever’
Credit: Brown University For people with a greater than 50 percent chance of landing their top job choice and a...
Scientists identify key evolutionary catalyst for antibiotic resistance
A new study led by scientists at the University of Oxford has found that small DNA molecules known as plasmids...
A public database of macromolecular diffraction experiments
Credit: M. Grabowski et al. The reproducibility of published experimental results has recently attracted attention in many different scientific fields....
Analog series-based scaffolds: a new definition that may aid medicinal chemistry
Credit: Future Science Group While the Bemis-Murcko approach to scaffold analysis has remained the go-to definition for computational medicinal chemistry...
Tools to understand marine biodiversity and assess the environmental status of our oceans
Credit: Azti More than 250 European researchers have collaborated in developing new tools to understand marine biodiversity and assess the...
Use of bacteria to produce valuable substances from carbon dioxide
Credit: GU FRANKFURT. Microbes are already used on a wide scale for the production of fuels and base chemicals, but...
Greenland fossils reveal global ecosystem recovery after mass extinction
Credit: Michal Zaton A new study published in Scientific Reports shows how higher latitude ecosystems recovered after the World's most...
ESMO Asia 2016: Cancer experts meet in Singapore from Dec. 16-19, 2016
LUGANO/SINGAPORE, 08 November 2016 - ESMO, the leading professional organisation for medical oncology, is pleased to announce the second ESMO...
Funding a set of essential medicines for low- and middle-income countries
Credit: UCLA Fielding School of Public Health As the world moves toward universal health coverage, the question arises: How can...
Scientists use advanced technology to better understand ataxia
According to a recent study published in JAMA Neurology, Northwestern Medicine scientists have examined more than a century of data...
Genetically engineering disease-fighting cells
Credit: Caltech The human body produces T cells to recognize and fight disease. Each T cell has a unique T...
Genetic signaling pathway blocks formation of a cancer in the cerebellum
(TORONTO, Canada - Nov. 8, 2016) - A research team at the Krembil Research Institute has discovered that a signaling...
Neuroscientists call for deep collaboration to ‘crack’ the human brain
The time is ripe, the communication technology is available, for teams from different labs and different countries to join efforts...
Shallow reefs off Singapore survive in the face of adversity
An analysis of the health of highly impacted coral reefs off Singapore during a 27-year long period has shown they...
Potential targeted therapy found for newly identified leukemia subtype with poor outcome
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital An international research team led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators has uncovered...