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Two-cells-in-one combo therapy could bolster leukemia treatment
Credit: Zhen Gu Research Lab/UCLA Samueli A cancer therapy based on fusing two types of cells into a single unit...
New drug formulation could help people undergoing heart surgery
Professor Raimondo Ascione, and Professor Saadeh Suleiman, from the Bristol Heart Institute, will explore whether treatment with two drugs, which...
Domestic violence is widely accepted in most developing countries, new study reveals
Societal acceptance of domestic violence against women is widespread in developing countries, with 36 per cent of people believing it...
Chirality of vitamin-D derivative affects the protonation states of its receptor protein
Credit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Researchers at Toyohashi University of Technology, in cooperation with researchers...
Cold therapy offers promising prevention against taxane-induced dermatologic events
WASHINGTON (Oct. 31, 2018) - Due to their broad antitumor activity that inhibits the function of microtubules, taxanes are common...
Lyme disease predicted to rise in United States as climate warms
Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease in North America and its incidence has risen sharply in the last...
A fully human system to cultivate skin cells for grafting
SINGAPORE, 31 October 2018 - Breakthrough research to culture human skin cells called keratinocytes to produce skin grafts has been...
Neuroscientists find molecular clue in ALS, suggesting potential new drug target
Credit: Hegde Lab HOUSTON-(Oct. 31, 2018) - Houston Methodist researchers have discovered a repair defect in nerve cells that send...
Biomarker discovered for most common form of heart failure
Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES -- Oct. 31, 2018 -- A team led by a Cedars-Sinai physician-scientist has discovered a biomarker--a...
Colectomy associated with increased risk of diabetes
People who have had a colectomy have increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, researchers from the University of Copenhagen...
Tracking Aedes aegypti across the ages with vector genomics
Credit: James Gathany, provided by CDC/ Prof. Frank Hadley Collins, Dir., Cntr. for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, Univ. of...
Insilico Medicine to present innovation analytics at SAPHEX 2018
Credit: Insilico Medicine Wednesday, October 31, 2018, 2018, Rockville, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company developing the end-to-end drug...
Understanding quality control in the cellular immune system
(Goethe University Frankfurt) Robert Tampé, Director of the Institute of Biochemistry at Goethe University, has received 1.5 million from the...
Best practices in palliative care supported by growing evidence base, study finds
A study commissioned to help guide revisions of best practices in providing palliative care finds that there is a wide...
Virtual program successful in linking adult protective services, geriatric specialists
HOUSTON - (Oct. 31, 2018) - In its first year, an innovative virtual program has substantially increased mistreated elderly Texans'...
Rose geranium oil may ease common painful nasal symptoms linked to cancer treatment
The findings build on anecdotal evidence for the use of rose geranium oil to treat nasal vestibulitis, which affects the...
Army, university study suggests brain structure could influence behavior
Credit: (Image courtesy PLOS Computational Biology) New research focusing on how brain structure may impact brain activity and ultimately human...
Commercial shellfish landings decline likely linked to environmental factors
Researchers studying the sharp decline between 1980 and 2010 in documented landings of the four most commercially-important bivalve mollusks -...
How plants cope with stress
The future looks challenging for plants. Climate change is forecast to bring widespread drought to parts of the planet already...
Israel’s Ben-Gurion U. and Louisiana announce water research collaboration
Credit: BGU/Dani Machlis NEW YORK...October 30 - Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards visited Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in...
