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Credit: RUB, Marquard The immune cells douse the bacteria with a toxic cocktail that contains, among other things, chlorine bleach. ...

Preventing exhaustion in immune cells boosts immunotherapy in mice

PITTSBURGH, March 6, 2018 - If you're an immune cell gearing up to fight cancer, you'd better eat your breakfast. ...

Texas A&M chemists use technology to decode language of lipid-protein interaction

Credit: Laganowsky Laboratory, Texas A&M University Technology has a massive impact on our day-to-day lives, right down to the cellular ...

Study advances research in pelvic organ prolapse among women

By measuring the sagging of the vaginal walls in more than a thousand volunteers for up to nine years annually, ...

Study suggests native UK Pine martens are helping to control invasive gray squirrels

Credit: University of Aberdeen AMHERST, Mass. - For many years, populations of a little red squirrel with cute ear tufts, ...

Without 46 million year-old bacteria, turtle ants would need more bite and less armor

Credit: Photo by Jon Sanders. You've probably heard about poop pills, the latest way for humans to get benevolent bacteria ...

Strict eating schedule can lower Huntington disease protein in mice

New research from the University of British Columbia suggests that following a strict eating schedule can help clear away the ...

Bacteria resistant to last-resort antibiotic, missed by standard tests

Emory microbiologists have detected "heteroresistance" to colistin, a last-resort antibiotic, in already highly resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, a bacterium that causes ...

Rural claim lines with sleep apnea diagnoses increased 911 percent from 2014 to 2017

Credit: FAIR Health NEW YORK, NY--March 6, 2018--From 2014 to 2017, private insurance claim lines with a diagnosis of sleep ...

Study validates tool to assess mortality risk in older patients with orthopedic fractures

Credit: NYU Langone Health Analytic software developed by orthopedic trauma surgeons at NYU Langone Health accurately identifies which middle-aged and ...

New tool helps identify risk for post-surgical dislocations following hip replacement

Credit: NYU Langone Health A novel risk assessment tool helps identify which patients undergoing total hip replacement may be at ...

Neurocognitive impairment linked to worse outcomes after total joint replacement

Credit: NYU Langone Health People with undiagnosed neurocognitive deficits are undergoing hip and knee replacements at high rates and are ...

Helmet use associated with reduced risk of cervical spine injury during motorcycle crashes

Glaciers in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert actually shrank during the last ice age

Credit: Jigjidsurengiin Batbaatar/University of Washington The simple story says that during the last ice age, temperatures were colder and ice ...

The Biodiversity Literature Repository passes the 200,000-items milestone

Credit: Plazi and Pensoft Everyday a large number of biodiversity data are uploaded to the free and open Biodiversity Literature ...

Technique allows live imaging of ‘ubiquitous’ player in cellular housekeeping

Credit: Gastroenterology and Hepatology,TMDU Tokyo - If you paid attention in biology class, you may vaguely recall the word "homeostasis." ...

Identifying ammonia hotspots in China using national observation network

Credit: Yuepeng Pan The limited availability of ammonia (NH3) measurements is currently a barrier to understanding the vital role of ...

Bentham Science publishes sixth volume of the book series, Topics in Anti-Cancer Research

Bentham Science Publishers has published the sixth volume of its patent book series, Topics in Anti-Cancer Research. The book series ...

Restoring lipid synthesis could reduce lung fibrosis

(PHILADELPHIA) - Pulmonary fibrosis, an ongoing process of scarring that leaves patients chronically short of breath, can progress in severity ...

Parent mentors improve Latino children’s health insurance coverage rates