How live vaccines enhance the body’s immune response
Credit: Freie Universitaet Berlin, Kristina Dietert Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin's university hospital, have discovered a new mechanism ...
How does HIV escape cellular booby traps?
Credit: Kyoto University / Sato Lab Human immunodeficiency virus -- HIV -- is believed to have evolved from a simian ...
Research shows first land plants were parasitized by microbes
Credit: Philip Carella By studying liverworts - which diverged from other land plants early in the history of plant evolution ...
Relaxation response may reduce blood pressure by altering expression of a set of genes
Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON - High blood pressure -- or hypertension -- is a major risk factor ...
Mutation of worm gene, swip-10, triggers age-dependent death of dopamine neurons
Credit: Florida Atlantic University Dopamine, a signaling chemical in the brain, has the lofty job of controlling emotions, moods, movements ...
Updated ASTRO guideline for palliative lung RT recommends concurrent chemo for some stage III pts
ARLINGTON, Va., April 4, 2018 - The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) today issued an update to its clinical ...
Pulling valuable metals from e-waste makes financial sense
Electronic waste -- including discarded televisions, computers and mobile phones -- is one of the fastest-growing waste categories worldwide. For ...
Who’s smarter in the classroom — men or women?
Credit: Sandra Leander/ASU If you believe it, you can achieve it. You've probably heard this motivational phrase more than once. ...
Vegetables may help protect elderly women from hardening of neck arteries
DALLAS, April 4, 2018 -- Elderly Australian women who ate more vegetables showed less carotid artery wall thickness, according to ...
Biochemical Society announces 2019 award recipients
March 28, 2018, London, UK - The Biochemical Society has announced the winners of the Society's annual awards today. The ...
Obesity impacts liver health in kids as young as 8 years old
New York, NY --A new study published today in the Journal of Pediatrics is the first to show that weight ...
Childhood exposure to flame retardant chemicals declines following phase-out
Exposure to flame retardants once widely used in consumer products has been falling, according to a new study by researchers ...
Smart ink adds new dimensions to 3-D printing
Credit: Chenfeng Ke HANOVER, N.H. - April 4, 2018- Researchers at Dartmouth College have developed a smart ink that turns ...
Tungsten oxide nanoparticles fight against infection and cancer
Credit: ITEB RAS Tungsten oxide attracts a great deal of attention on the part of scientists and industrialists due to ...
The plant hormone auxin coordinates wood formation
Credit: Institute of Cytology and Genetics An international research team investigated the genetic regulation of stem cell division in plant ...
Island emus’ size related to size of island homes
Emus that lived isolated on Australia's offshore islands until the 19th century, including Kangaroo Island, King Island and Tasmania, were ...
Colleen’s Dream Foundation funds ovarian cancer clinical trial
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. -- April 3, 2018 -- Colleen's Dream Foundation, a Scottsdale-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting ovarian cancer research, recently ...
More communication needed regarding disposal of pet pharmaceuticals
CORVALLIS, Ore. - If no one told you the proper way to get rid of those leftover heartworm pills, bottles ...
Scholarly snowball: Deep learning paper generates big online collaboration
MADISON-- Bioinformatics professors Anthony Gitter and Casey Greene set out in summer 2016 to write a paper about biomedical applications ...
UCLA scientists merge statistics, biology to produce important new gene computational tool
Credit: Reed Hutchinson/UCLA The cells in our bodies express themselves in different ways. One cell might put a chunk of ...
