First influenza-specific neuraminidase test kit for flu vaccines
(InDevR, Inc.) InDevR Inc. announced product release of the first ever commercial reagent kit designed explicitly for assessment of neuraminidase ...
Patients unable to resume work after heart attack face depression and financial hardship
DALLAS, June 12, 2018 - More people than ever are able to resume working after a heart attack, but those ...
Basketball teams playing for survival in critical NBA playoffs are more likely to lose
If a sports team plays a critical game in which losing means elimination from a league, do they work harder ...
Living with the stigma of diabetes
Credit: MUHC Montreal, June 12, 2018 - Michael Wright was your average high school student, juggling the responsibilities of school ...
Cancer: More targeted use of immunotherapy
Doctors are increasingly fighting cancer by stimulating patients' immune systems. SNSF-supported researchers have now discovered a method for predicting the ...
Long periods of viral suppression shown to prevent cancer in aging HIV population
1. Long periods of viral suppression shown to prevent cancer in aging HIV population Abstract: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M16-2094 URLs go live when ...
Doing right by the whales
These are not good times for the North Atlantic right whale. Ship strikes and gear entanglement play major roles in ...
PNNL technology clears way for ethanol-derived jet fuel
Credit: PNNL/Andrea Starr RICHLAND, Wash. -- ASTM International recently revised ASTM D7566 Annex A5 -- the Standard Specification for Aviation ...
Stanford nectar research sheds light on ecological theory
Credit: Manpreet Dhami, Tadashi Fukami and Lydia-Marie Jouber A sticky drop of nectar clinging to the tip of a hummingbird's ...
Volcanic activity, declining ocean oxygen triggered mass extinction of ancient organisms
Credit: Stephen Bilenky TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Global climate change, fueled by skyrocketing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, is siphoning oxygen ...
Orange peels may hold secret to airborne medicine, safer bridges
Credit: Dr. Andrew Dickerson's lab Bartenders and cooks have long recognized the value of an orange twist, but thanks to ...
Making the oxygen we breathe, a photosynthesis mechanism exposed
Credit: Georgia Tech / Brumfield / Barry Lab Arguably, the greatest fueler of life on our planet is photosynthesis, but ...
Researchers identify new gene changes that point to elevated prostate cancer risk
As the result of a six-year long research process, Fredrick R. Schumacher, PhD, a cancer epidemiology researcher at Case Western ...
Children’s Tumor Foundation Drug Discovery Awards announced
The Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF), the largest non-governmental funder of neurofibromatosis (NF) research, and PLOS ONE, a leading peer-reviewed scientific ...
Large-scale study indicates novel, abundant nitrogen-fixing microbes in surface ocean
Credit: Delmont et al (2018) Nature Microbiology, doi: 10.1038/s41564-018-0176-9 WOODS HOLE, Mass.-- Move over, cyanobacteria! A large-scale study of the ...
Researchers Discover New Type of Stem Cell State
Credit: Courtesy Prof. John R. Bracht. It's not the amount of fat, but the ability to store fat in the ...
Key cancer-fighting gene’s secret weapons revealed
Credit: The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute The findings revealed that a special group of genes that function within the ...
A new therapy proves effective against brain metastasis
A study published in Nature Medicine by a team led by Manuel Valiente, head of the Brain Metastasis Group at ...
USC scientists help identify genetic markers for prostate cancer in global DNA download
An international team of researchers including USC scientists has found scores of new genetic markers in DNA code that increase ...
DIY brings high throughput to continuous cell culturing
Credit: C. Bashor/Rice University HOUSTON -- (June 11, 2018) -- Rice University's Caleb Bashor never planned to be an inventor ...
