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New model of T cell activation
T cell receptors are an important part of the human immune system. They are able to switch their conformation from...
UTA awarded $6 million in 2016 to find new ways to identify and treat…
Credit: UTA The University of Texas at Arlington is becoming a major cancer research institute, receiving more than $6 million...
The next step in preventing diabetes
Type 1 diabetes affects 30,000 individuals throughout Germany and is the most common metabolic disease in children and adolescents. To...
Intermittent electrical brain stimulation improves memory
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Sept. 7, 2017) – Intermittent electrical stimulation of an area deep...
I get by with help from my friends: Maintaining immune cells in head…
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina In an article published September 22, 2016 in Frontiers in Immunology, researchers at the...
A cancer’s surprise origins, caught in action
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Incentive to move
Credit: Source: Sonja-Verena Albers The biologist Dr. Tessa Quax has identified the structure of a central protein used by archaea...
University of Kentucky researchers discover three new primate species
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 3, 2016) – Three new species of mouse lemurs – the smallest primates in the world –...
‘Plant cinema’ shows the flow of energy
Credit: (c) Stephan Wagner Nothing works without fuel: plants also depend on fuel for growth and development. In living organisms,...
Research Society on Alcoholism grants Dr. Samuel W. French 2017…
Credit: LA BioMed LOS ANGELES – (April 3, 2017) – The Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA), an organization of researchers...
Yeast infection linked to mental illness
In a study prompted in part by suggestions from people with mental illness, Johns Hopkins researchers found that a history...
Protecting piping plovers
Credit: Roger Eriksson EAST LANSING, Mich. – Visitors to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore are often treated to tiny scurrying...
Combined $54.5M gift creates a brighter future for children and women
(Edmonton) – The sound of footsteps ascending the stairs heralds six-year-old triplets David, Ryan and Liam Ennis. They spill into...
New tiny arboreal toad species from India is just small enough for its own genus
IMAGE: A Blythophryne beryet toad sitting on leaf surface. Credit: Dr. Ramesh K. Aggarwal Found on a herb bush, a...
Food scientists are developing a low-cost tool for detecting bacteria in food, water
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Food scientist Lili He and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that...
New Wayne State research findings offers hope to people with…
Credit: Julie O'Connor, Wayne State University DETROIT – A novel psychological therapy that encourages addressing emotional experiences related to trauma,...
What is high lipoprotein(a), and should I be concerned?
Credit: McGill University Health Center Montreal, Feb. 22, 2017 – A team of researchers from the Research Institute of the...
Scientists suggest way to predict the behavior of invasive weeds
Credit: Invasive Plant Science volume 10 issue 4 front cover WESTMINSTER, Colo. – Dec. 28, 2017 – Is it possible...
$1.9 million NIH grant to Wayne State to develop novel therapy for…
Credit: Wayne State University DETROIT – Wayne State University recently received a five-year, $1.925 million grant from the National Eye...
Cells from same cell bank lots may have vast genetic variability
In a surprise finding, researchers working with breast cancer cells purchased at the same time from the same cell bank...
