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Case study: Child’s lobectomy reveals brain’s ability to reorganize its visual system
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University A new study led by Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists provides the first evidence of how the...
Long-term study of a boy’s lobectomy offers rare glimpse of plasticity in action
The boy suffered his first epileptic seizure at age four. Doctors tried medication and other treatments to control the seizures--the...
Blood samples used to investigate adaptive repair mechanisms of transplanted kidneys
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - July 31, 2018 - Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have shown that gene expression analysis...
Microbes in the Hong Kong subway system mix together by evening rush hour
Credit: Gianni Panagiotou Every day, the hundred-mile-long Hong Kong subway system serves nearly five million people commuting from as far...
Patients opt for 3D simulation for breast augmentation — but it doesn’t improve outcomes
July 31, 2018 - Three-dimensional image simulation is popular among women planning breast augmentation surgery. But while this evolving technology...
Research into cell-to-cell signalling mechanism may lead to new cancer treatments
Credit: Steffen Scholpp / University of Exeter Pioneering new research into the way in which cells communicate with each other...
How chronic infections can outsmart the immune system
(Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS) Second leading cause of death by parasitic infection, visceral leishmaniasis takes advantage...
Artificial intelligence system created at UNC-Chapel Hill designs drugs from scratch
An artificial-intelligence approach created at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Eshelman School of Pharmacy can teach itself...
Songi Han to receive 2019 BPS Innovation Award
ROCKVILLE, MD - The Biophysical Society (BPS) has named Songi Han, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California,...
Meytal Landau to receive 2019 BPS Margaret Dayhoff Award
ROCKVILLE, MD - The Biophysical Society (BPS) has named Meytal Landau, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Biology, Israel Institute of Technology,...
Yves De Koninck to receive 2019 BPS Emily Gray Award
ROCKVILLE, MD - The Biophysical Society (BPS) has named Yves De Koninck, Professor, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Laval University, Quebec City,...
Jeff Gelles to receive 2019 BPS Kazuhito Kinosita Award in Single-Molecule
ROCKVILLE, MD - The Biophysical Society (BPS) has named Jeff Gelles, Aron and Imre Tauber Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology,...
Harry Noller to receive 2019 BPS Ignacio Tinoco Award
ROCKVILLE, MD - The Biophysical Society (BPS) has named Harry Noller, Robert L. Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular Biology, Department of...
Enrico Gratton to receive 2019 BPS Avanti Award in Lipids
ROCKVILLE, MD - The Biophysical Society (BPS) has named Enrico Gratton, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine,...
Routine genomic screening could find risks for cancer and heart disease in 3 to 4 million
1. Routine genomic screening could find risks for cancer and heart disease in 3 to 4 million unsuspecting Americans Abstract:...
Cannabinoid improves survival rates of mice with pancreatic cancer
Mice with pancreatic cancer that were treated with a naturally occurring constituent of medicinal cannabis alongside chemotherapy, survived almost three...
Diet matters less than evolutionary relationships in shaping gut microbiome
Study is the largest published comparative dataset of non-human primate gut microbiomes to date Leaf-eating primates shared very few gut...
Juli Feigon to receive 2019 BPS Founders Award
ROCKVILLE, MD - The Biophysical Society (BPS) has named Juli Feigon, Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of...
Raymond Stevens to receive 2019 BPS Anatrace Membrane Protein Award
ROCKVILLE, MD - The Biophysical Society (BPS) has named Raymond Stevens, Provost Professor and Director of the Bridge Institute, Department...
Elizabeth Rhoades to receive 2019 BPS Michael and Kate Barany Award
ROCKVILLE, MD - The Biophysical Society (BPS) has named Elizabeth Rhoades, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, as...
