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Anti-nausea drug could help treat sleep apnea
An old pharmaceutical product may be a new treatment for obstructive sleep apnea, according to new research presented today by...
Building a better blood-brain barrier model
Credit: Courtesy of Choi-Fong Cho, Brigham and Women's Hospital Delivering drugs to the brain is no easy task. The blood-brain...
A method to improve in vitro tests
Before new nanoparticles or other nanomedicines can be injected into the human body, a whole series of tests must be...
America’s top reporters on aging earn journalism fellowships
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and New America Media (NAM) have selected 18 distinguished reporters for the next cohort...
New target found to attack an incurable brain tumor in children
Chicago...A study published in Molecular Cancer Research reveals that a tumor suppressor gene p16 is turned off by a histone...
Analysis of pathways activation landscape in oral squamous cell carcinoma and pre-neoplastic lesions
Credit: Insilico Medicine Summary: Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) affects over 300,000 people worldwide each year, and most patients already...
Can you hear me now?
Credit: Johns Hopkins University When trying to be heard over noise, humans and animals raise their voices. It's a split-second...
Standard dosage for one lung cancer treatment may be too high
A new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute indicates that the customary pembrolizumab dose for treatment...
Cancer cells send signals boosting survival and drug resistance in other cancer cells
Credit: Image courtesy of Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that cancer cells appear to...
What the hair of a fly tells us about cancer
Credit: © UNIGE / Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan Things couldn't be simpler at the start: the cells divide into two identical cells...
How soil bacteria can protect against corrosion in steel
The cell surface of a common soil bacteria (Streptomyces sp.) is not only hydrophobic but it protects the organism from...
Take a coffee or tea break to protect your liver
Credit: L. Alferink and S. Darwish Murad Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 6, 2017 - Chronic liver diseases rank as the...
Early-stage clinical oncology company Apexian Pharmaceuticals licenses IU discoveries
Apexian Pharmaceuticals Inc., a biotechnology company focused on developing novel compounds to treat cancer, has licensed all available patented and...
Difficulties diagnosing delirium in older adults after surgery
Delirium is a medical term for "sudden confusion." It is an abrupt, rapid change in mental function and can cause...
Alectinib potential new standard of care for ALK-positive non-small lung cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Results of a 303-patient, multi-national phase III clinical trial known as ALEX published today...
Why do Antarctic krill stocks fluctuate?
Oldenburg/Bremerhaven (Germany), 6th June 2017. It is only six centimetres long, but it plays a major role in the Antarctic...
Major research initiative explores how our bones and muscles age, new ways to block their decline
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (June 6, 2017) - With age, the form and function of our bones and muscles...
Copaiba: Silver bullet or snake oil?
Credit: Florida Atlantic University Sales of the essential oil copaiba are increasing, at least in part, because more than 54...
Neurodegenerative disease mechanism and potential drug identified
Two new studies of progressive, neurodegenerative diseases linked to defects in cells' mitochondria offer hope for developing a new biomarker...
New data for old bones: How the famous Cleveland-Lloyd dinosaur bone bed came to be
Credit: Wikipedia The Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry is the densest collection of Jurassic dinosaur fossils. Unlike typical Jurassic bone beds, it...
