Researchers examine contaminants in hunted wildlife
Concerning environmental contaminants, game species are not subject to the same safety testing as commercially marketed livestock. A recent study ...
Funding for gene therapy to injured peripheral nerves
Scientists from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry have received funding from the Northcott Devon Medical Foundation to ...
NYITCOM researcher discovers potential cancer treatment breakthrough
Patients undergoing conventional chemotherapy for certain cancers could potentially receive more effective and less toxic drug treatment. In a July ...
New genes discovered regulating brain metastases in lung cancer
Credit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (August 8, 2017) - Research from McMaster University has identified new regulators of brain metastases ...
New study discovers ‘killer peptide’ that helps eliminate resistant cancer cells
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 4, 2017) - A new study by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers shows that when ...
$15 million grant to LSU Health New Orleans to help reduce cancer in louisiana
New Orleans, LA - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded LSU Health New Orleans School of ...
First-in-class drug holds promise for therapy-resistant breast cancer
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Aug. 8, 2017 - UT Southwestern Simmons Cancer Center researchers have shown that a first-in-class ...
Colorectal cancer death rates rising in people under 55
ATLANTA -August 8, 2017- A new report finds that colorectal cancer mortality rates have increased in adults under 55 since ...
Racial differences for trends in colorectal cancer mortality rates
Colorectal cancer mortality rates have decreased since 1970 in black individuals 20 to 54 years of age, but have increased ...
Mental illness, suicide, and ‘intractable violence’ creating ‘lost generation’ in Middle East
SEATTLE (7 August 2017) - Suicide, homicide, and sexual assault are increasing much faster in the Eastern Mediterranean Region than ...
Clinical trial shows ready-to-use cells are safe and effective to treat viral infections
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Patients who receive a hematopoietic stem cell transplant are at risk of developing potentially lethal ...
Prostate cancer cells become ‘shapeshifters’ to spread to distant organs
Credit: Nature Communications Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists report they have discovered a biochemical process that gives prostate cancer ...
Drug hope for acute myeloid leukemia
Credit: University of Bradford A new drug that strips cancer cells of their "immortality" could help to treat patients suffering ...
Assembling nanomachines in bacteria
Credit: Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) One of the oldest nanomachines in biology is the bacterial flagellum. This apparatus is evolutionary ...
A champion for plants
Native plants have a guardian angel in Susan Mazer. Her research as a botanist has furthered the conservation of some ...
UTA team brings robotic main inspections to Ennis
Credit: City of Arlington A collaboration between UTA and the city of Arlington using an underground robot to view sewer ...
The mystery of the yellowing sugarcane
Credit: Annelie Marquardt, Sugar Research Australia Since 2011, a mysterious illness known as Yellow Canopy Syndrome, or YCS, has afflicted ...
Extreme melt season leads to decade-long ecosystem changes in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys
Credit: Peter Rejcek An abnormal season of intense glacial melt in 2002 triggered multiple distinct changes in the physical and ...
Extreme heat linked to climate change may adversely affect pregnancy
WASHINGTON, DC (Aug. 8, 2017) -- Pregnant women are an important but thus far largely overlooked group vulnerable to the ...
An updated classification for freshwater crayfishes
A new paper published in the Journal of Crustacean Biology provides an updated classification system that includes all the known ...
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