Headlines
Gene therapy with BMP4 protects against weight gain and insulin resistance in mice
Credit: Photo: Michael Frietsch "By increasing BMP4, we can increase the metabolic rate, but we only see this in initially...
Cholesterol-fighting drugs lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: USC Schaeffer Center Common anti-cholesterol drugs show promise for reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease, a University of Southern...
UMass Amherst neuroscientist receives $2.64 million from NIH for…
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Neuroscientist Rebecca Spencer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently received a five-year, $2.64...
Hearing with your eyes — a Western style of speech perception
Credit: Dr. Kaoru Sekiyama Which parts of a person's face do you look at when you listen them speak? Lip...
University of Maryland orthopaedic surgeons to receive international…
Credit: University of Maryland School of Medicine BALTIMORE – Nov. 30, 2017. A research team led by Mohit N. Gilotra,...
Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time,…
Credit: L.A. Cicero When we are in a deep slumber our brain's activity ebbs and flows in big, obvious waves,...
INNUENDO — a new platform for genomics integration in surveillance of food-borne…
IMAGE: The project coordinator, Assistant Professor Mirko Rossi is in the back. In front, from the left are Docent Janne...
Researchers overcome obstacle for future stem cell therapies
Credit: Robert Judson and Fabio Rossi Researchers have discovered a new technique that overcomes one of the major challenges of...
UCLA study could explain link between high-cholesterol diet and colon cancer
Credit: Tontonoz lab/UCLA New UCLA research could help explain the link between a high-cholesterol diet and an elevated risk for...
New model may help science overcome the brain’s fortress-like…
Credit: Samah Jassam New model may help science overcome the brain's fortress-like barrier Scientists have helped provide a way to...
Alectinib potential new standard of care for ALK-positive non-small…
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Results of a 303-patient, multi-national phase III clinical trial known as ALEX published today...
Biochemists feed ‘poison pill’ to deadly virus with a funny name
It has a funny name – coxsackievirus – but there's nothing funny about how this tiny germ and its close...
New breast cancer drug may be effective against other types of cancer
PHILADELPHIA–Palbociclib, a new oral drug whose efficacy in combating breast cancer has been demonstrated alone and in combination with endocrine...
Dog ownership linked to lower mortality
A team of Swedish scientists have used national registries of more than 3.4 million Swedes aged 40 to 80 to...
New diagnostic criteria and treatment guidelines proposed for thyroid storm
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 27, 2017–With a mortality rate estimated at 10%, the life-threatening...
Repurposed drug found to be effective against Zika virus
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In both cell cultures and mouse models, a drug used to treat...
nTIDE December 2017: Year-end job numbers cap record year for…
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ – January 5, 2018. Despite December's lag in U.S. job numbers, Americans with disabilities...
New drug could help prevent artery disease in high-risk patients
Credit: Justin Kelley, University of Missouri Health According to the American Heart Association, approximately 2,200 Americans die each day from...
Pulling power reveals new insights into membrane dynamics in human cells
Credit: University of Exeter Organelles are the functional units of a cell. Like different parts of a production line in...
A brain link to autism
In a discovery that could offer valuable insights into understanding, diagnosing, and even treating autism, Harvard scientists for the first...
