GA4GH strikes formal collaborations with 15 international genomic data initiatives
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) has struck formal collaborations with 15 international genomic data initiatives as 2017 ...
How bees find their way home
How can a bee fly straight home in the middle of the night after a complicated route through thick vegetation ...
Domestication has not made dogs cooperate more with each other compared to wolves
Credit: Wolf Science Center/Vetmeduni Vienna Following domestication, dogs should be more tolerant and cooperative with conspecifics and humans compared to ...
HIV infection, even with antiretroviral therapy, appears to damage a growing child’s brain
HIV infection alters brain development in young children, even when they receive antiretroviral treatment early in life, shows a report ...
Three Bentham Open Journals indexed in The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) has accepted to index three Open Access journals published by Bentham Open. The titles ...
Microbes leave ‘fingerprints’ on Martian rocks
Credit: Copyright: Tetyana Milojevic At the Department of Biophysical Chemistry at the University of Vienna, Tetyana Milojevic and her team ...
MIPT scientists revisit optical constants of ultrathin gold films
Credit: MIPT Researchers at MIPT have conducted highly precise measurements of the optical constants of ultrathin gold films with thicknesses ...
Keratin, proteins from 54 million-year-old sea turtle show survival trait evolution
Researchers from North Carolina State University, Lund University in Sweden and the University of Hyogo in Japan have retrieved original ...
Schizophrenia disrupts the brain’s entire communication system, researchers say
Credit: Courtesy of Paul Thompson, Ph.D., Neda Jahanshad, Ph.D., and Conor Corbin, USC Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, USC Mark and ...
‘Hiding in plain sight’ — Discovery raises questions over scale of overlooked biodiversity
Credit: David Bilton - University of Plymouth Scientists have used cutting-edge DNA technology and museum samples collected over the past ...
New assay may boost targeted treatment of non-hodgkin lymphoma
Credit: Philippe Ruminy Philadelphia, PA, October 17, 2017 - Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is an aggressive cancer and the ...
Saving hearts after heart attacks: Overexpression of a gene enhances repair of dead muscle
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - University of Alabama at Birmingham biomedical engineers report a significant advance in efforts to repair ...
Insurance plays significant role in breast cancer disparities
Differences in insurance account for a substantial proportion of the excess risk of death from breast cancer faced by black ...
Wake Forest Baptist receive $9 Million grant to study aggressive brain cancer
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Oct. 16, 2017 -- Glioblastoma is the most aggressive cancer that originates in the brain. Current therapies ...
Biology of childhood brain tumor subtypes offers clues to precision treatments
Researchers investigating pediatric low-grade gliomas (PLGG), the most common type of brain tumor in children, have discovered key biological differences ...
V. Craig Jordan, Ph.D., elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center V. Craig Jordan, Ph.D., professor of Breast Medical Oncology, has been elected to the National ...
Bolstering fat cells offers potential new leukemia treatment
Credit: Image courtesy McMaster University Hamilton, Ont. (Oct. 16, 2017) - Killing cancer cells indirectly by powering up fat cells ...
Study cites race and socioeconomic factors as influential in NSCLC patient survival rates
Yokohama, Japan - October 16, 2017 - New research found race and specific socioeconomic factors to have a significant influence ...
Integration of smoking cessation within CT lung cancer screenings shows life-saving results
okohama, Japan - October 16, 2017 - A study that integrated robust smoking cessation programs into an organized low-dose CT ...
Early palliative care provides no quality of life benefits for recently diagnosed MPM patients
Yokohama, Japan - October 16, 2017 - Early specialist palliative care for patients that were recently diagnosed with malignant pleural ...
