Zika virus infects developing brain by first infecting cells meant to defend against it
Credit: UC San Diego Health Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Brazil, ...
Lifestyle changes, healthier population
Obesity and high blood pressure frequently coexist in the same individual and are recognised as the main cardiovascular risk factor. ...
New study identifies mechanism bacteria use to attach to surfaces
Credit: Jingbo Kan Most of our knowledge of bacteria comes from the study of bacteria swimming around in liquid but ...
Cell Biology: Cellular power outage
Protein aggregation is a hallmark of many neurodegenerative diseases. Even in normal cells, such deposits can accumulate in mitochondria, blocking ...
Malaria parasite in the Americas is more genetically diverse than previously thought
The populations found in the Americas of Plasmodium vivax, one of the main human malaria parasites, are as genetically diverse ...
Emotional states discovered in fish
Credit: Ines Bravo, IGC. The occurrence of emotions in animals has been under debate. Now, a research team from the ...
Scientists unveil the water buffalo genome
Credit: Caterina Cambuli An international team of researchers led by the University of Adelaide has published the full genome of ...
Artificial intelligence to evaluate brain maturity of preterm infants
Credit: Sampsa Vanhatalo Researchers at the University of Helsinki and the Helsinki University Hospital (HUH), Finland, have developed software based ...
Heavy metal thunder: Protein can be switched on to conduct electricity like a metal
Credit: Weisi Song, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University When pushing the boundaries of discovery, sometimes even the most experienced of ...
Advanced artificial limbs mapped in the brain
Credit: Irit Hacmun, Tel Aviv Targeted motor and sensory reinnervation (TMSR) is a surgical procedure on patients with amputations that ...
Peatland plants adapting well to climate change, suggests study
Credit: University of Southampton They account for just three per cent of the Earth's surface but play a major role ...
Peat bogs defy the laws of biodiversity
Alexandre Buttler, head of EPFL's Ecological Systems Laboratory (ECOS), and Luca Bragazza, a scientist at ECOS, along with a team ...
Tropical forest reserves slow down global warming
Credit: Dan Bebber National parks and nature reserves in South America, Africa and Asia, created to protect wildlife, heritage sites ...
TGen-USC study finds ‘Precision Medicine’ may not always be so precise
PHOENIX and LOS ANGELES -- Oct. 26, 2017 -- Precision Medicine in oncology, where genetic testing is used to determine ...
UC San Diego Health researchers help launch second pancreas cancer ‘dream team’
Scientists and physicians at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health, in partnership with colleagues at MD Anderson Cancer ...
More early stage lung cancer patients survive the disease
Chicago, Oct. 26, 2017 - With the advancement of surgical and radiation therapy strategies for stage 1 non-small-cell lung cancer ...
Three new lung cancer genetic biomarkers are identified in Dartmouth study
LEBANON, NH - Both environmental and genetic risk factors contribute to development of lung cancer. Tobacco smoking is the most ...
TGen-USC study finds ‘precision ,edicine’ may not always be so precise
PHOENIX and LOS ANGELES -- Oct. 26, 2017 -- Precision Medicine in oncology, where genetic testing is used to determine ...
Pregnancy poses no greater risk to breast cancer survivors
A recent study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute indicates that pregnancy does not incur a greater ...
Cleveland Clinic leads development of new guidelines for radiation in breast cancer
Cleveland Clinic researcher Chirag Shah, M.D., led the development of updated guidelines for the appropriate and safe utilization of accelerated ...
