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October 3, 2025

Are learning and unlearning bedfellows?

The human brain's capacity for learning is astonishing: it can even memorize meaningless sounds if repeated. Hence, a pattern of...

Dopaminergic neurons derived from iPSCs in non-human primate model

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 8, 2017-Researchers have demonstrated the ability to generate dopaminergic neurons...

Newly discovered pathway for pain processing could lead to new treatments

The discovery of a new biological pathway involved in pain processing offers hope of using existing cancer drugs to replace...

Magnetic fields turn up the heat on bacterial biofilms

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - August 8, 2017 - A short exposure to an alternating magnetic field might someday replace...

Asian hornet to colonize UK within 2 decades without action

Credit: National Bee Unit Honey bees across Europe have been impacted by Asian hornet since it first arrived in France...

Amateur collectors in Japan discover country’s first and oldest fossil diving bird

Credit: Illustration by Masato Hattori HOKKAIDO, JAPAN (Aug. 8, 2017) - During a walk near a reservoir in a small...

Research-focused UH biotech program to expand nationally

Credit: University of Houston An innovative approach integrating classroom instruction and research at the University of Houston will be spread...

Scientists restore youthful plasticity to the brains of adult mice

Credit: Elissa Pastuzyn Like much of the rest of the body, the brain loses flexibility with age, impacting the ability...

Penn State’s Institute for CyberScience faculty member wins $1.9 million NIH award

Edward O'Brien, assistant professor of chemistry, Penn State and an associate with the University's Institute for CyberScience (ICS), has received...

Osteoporosis medications improve bone health in men being treated for prostate cancer

1. Osteoporosis medications improve bone health in men with prostate cancer receiving androgen deprivation therapy Abstract: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M16-2577 Editorial: http://ann..

How a chemo drug can help cancer spread from the breast to the lungs

COLUMBUS, Ohio -The very same treatment that thwarts breast cancer has a dark side -- it can fuel the spread...

Lyncean Technologies signs edge scientific as representative in Canada

Lyncean Technologies, Inc., manufacturer of the Lyncean Compact Light Source (CLS), today announced the signing of Edge Scientific as their...

First human application of novel PET tracer for prostate cancer

Credit: M. Piert et al., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan RESTON, Va. - In the featured translational article in...

Fat rats show why breast cancer may be more aggressive in patients with obesity

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Women with obesity are more likely to get breast cancer, and a number of...

Mutation in prostate tumors shown to change epigenetic identity, the make-up of DNA

(TORONTO, Canada - Aug. 7, 2017) - Prostate cancer researchers have mapped the impact of an acquired mutation that alters...

NCI study identifies essential genes for cancer immunotherapy

Credit: Jonathan Bailey, National Human Genome Research Institute A new study identifies genes that are necessary in cancer cells for...

IBM’s Watson can improve cancer treatment through better gene targeting

Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Aug. 7, 2017) - IBM's Watson beat real-life contestants on Jeopardy. Now researchers are hoping...

Mental illness, suicide, creating ‘lost generation’ in Middle East

SEATTLE - Suicide, homicide, and sexual assault are increasing much faster in the Eastern Mediterranean Region than any other region...

97 percent of insurance denials in pediatric proton patients overturned on appeal

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Insurance companies end up covering proton therapy treatment for pediatric cancer patients in 97 percent...

Herbal medicine shows potential to treat cancer