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Gene-editing technique cures genetic disorder in utero
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University have for the first time used a gene editing technique to successfully...
Visual perceptual skills are updated by process similar to memory reconsolidation, study finds
Credit: Jolygon PROVIDENCE, R.I. --A new study shows that updating visual perceptual skills -- which humans rely on to recognize...
Human clinical trial reveals verapamil as an effective type 1 diabetes therapy
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Diabetes Center have discovered a safe...
Can we get the immune system to tolerate organ transplants?
Credit: Fawn Gracey, Boston Children's Hospital Currently, people receiving organ transplants must take drugs to suppress the inflammatory immune response...
Brain cancer: Typical mutation in cancer cells stifles immune response
The exchange of a single amino acid building block in a metabolic enzyme can lead to cancer. In addition, it...
Nanoparticles give immune cells a boost
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Programming the body's immune system to attack cancer cells has had promising results for treating blood cancers...
Leukemia researchers discover way to predict healthy people at risk for developing AML
(TORONTO, Canada, July 9, 2018) - An international team of leukemia scientists has discovered how to predict healthy individuals at...
Evolution of melanoma reveals opportunities for intervention
UC San Francisco researchers have identified the sequence of genetic changes that transform benign moles into malignant melanoma in a...
Roots of leukemia reveal possibility of predicting people at risk
Scientists have discovered that it is possible to identify people at high risk of developing acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) years...
Penn study finds mutation driving deadlier brain tumors and potential therapy to stop it
PHILADELPHIA - A poorly understood mutation in the brain cancer glioblastoma (GBM) is now being implicated for the first time...
Kissing bugs kiss their hiding spots goodbye, thanks to tiny radio transmitters
Credit: Gabriel Hamer, Ph.D., Texas A&M University/Journal of Medical Entomology Annapolis, MD; July 9, 2018--With the continuing advance of technology,...
Penn’s Brian Capell, M.D., Ph.D., wins Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Brian C. Capell, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Dermatology in the Perelman School of...
Birds eat 400 to 500 million tonnes of insects annually
Birds around the world eat 400 to 500 million metric tonnes of beetles, flies, ants, moths, aphids, grasshoppers, crickets and...
How does Parkinson’s disease develop? Study raises doubts on theory of Parkinson’s disease
Credit: Biozentrum, University of Basel Parkinson's disease was first described by a British doctor more than 200 years' ago. The...
Protein function repairing genetic damage in spermatogenesis identified
Credit: IBB-UAB Researchers from the Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology and the Institute for Biotechnology and Biomedicine of...
Meningococcal infection: Bacterial aggregates form a thick honey-like liquid that flows through blood vessels
The Inserm team led by Guillaume Duménil at the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with several teams of physicists, has unraveled...
It takes a village…
Credit: João Martins, iMM A group of researchers led by Edgar Gomes, Group Leader at Instituto de Medicina Molecular João...
Candida albicans: Progress in the understanding of the mechanisms of genetic diversification in a major fungal pathogen of humans
Candida albicans is one of the most formidable fungal species, causing infection in humans. Investigating the structure and reproduction methods...
A new study identifies 40 genes related to aggressive behavior in humans and mice
Credit: University of Barcelona The origins of the violent behaviour are multifactorial and respond to the interaction of several factors...
Insectivorous birds consume annually as much energy as the city of New York
Credit: Photo © Maurice Baker The world's insectivorous birds consume annually 400 to 500 million tons of prey and thereby...
