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Case Western Reserve researchers to examine skin prions in fatal neurodegenerative disease
Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Affecting both people and animals, prion diseases are degenerative brain disorders that...
High-risk HPV linked to improved survival in cervical cancer
The presence of the human high-risk papillomavirus (HPV) in the diagnosis of invasive cervical cancer is linked to a greatly...
UMass Amherst researchers plan to develop alternative energy source for muscle
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Muscle biophysicist Ned Debold in the kinesiology department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's...
First large study details cognitive outcomes among older breast cancer patients
WASHINGTON -- The first large U.S. study of cognition in older breast cancer patients found that within the first two...
BPS congratulates biophysicist Frances Arnold on her Nobel Prize
ROCKVILLE, MD - The Biophysical Society (BPS) commends Frances Arnold, California Institute of Technology, on her shared Nobel Prize in...
Arizona bioscience community honors two of TGen’s top scientists
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Oct. 3, 2018 -- Two top scientists from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of...
A novel molecule could spur new class of drugs for breast cancer
Credit: Stevens Institute of Technology Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology and colleagues have designed and developed a new class...
T cell bispecific antibody for the immune-mediated killing of HER2+ breast cancer cells
(Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology) Researchers at the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology in Barcelona show that the p95HER2-T cell...
Recording device for cell history
Different "events" such as infections by viruses, as well as the exposure to environmental toxins or other forms of stress,...
MSU faculty awarded $1 million grant to research tree chemistry in bark beetle battle
Credit: MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN - As bark beetles continue to devour sickly pine forests, a Montana State...
Riffyn launches Open Access for scientists at non-profits
Credit: Riffyn Oakland, CA, USA, 3 October 2018 - Riffyn, a global provider of cloud-based experiment design and data analytics...
Proposed simple chemical reaction network of existing biological E. coli signaling data
Apparently, bacteria do not care about math and they do not have in their curricula a calculus course. Yet they...
Family of rodents may explain how some groups of animals become so diverse
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- How did a single species of rodent invade South America and then quickly branch off into 350...
In disaster’s wake, novel computing techniques support emergency responders
Credit: Melanie Laverdiere/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 3, 2018--As hurricanes barrel toward the...
New approach on the use of big data in clinical decision support
Credit: Nuno Agostinho, iMM. A new computational approach that allows the identification of molecular alterations associated with prognosis and resistance...
Tropical frogs found to coexist with deadly fungus
Credit: Graziella DiRenzo Amphibian biologists from around the world watched in horror in 2004, as the frogs of El Copé,...
What doesn’t kill you
After suffering mass mortality for years due to infection with the deadly Batrachochytrium dendrobatridis fungus, or chytrid, some frog populations...
Lilly Pilly fossils reveal snowless Snowy Mountains
Credit: Myall Tarran Leaf fossils discovered high in Australia's Snowy Mountains have revealed a past history of warmer rainforest vegetation...
Discovery of first genetic variants associated with meaning in life
For the first time, locations on the human genome have been identified that can explain differences in meaning in life...
