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Discovery will impact design of drug delivery systems at the molecular level
Credit: Houston Methodist HOUSTON-(May 16, 2018) - Researchers at Houston Methodist and Rice University have made a discovery that will...
International study suggests combination therapy may prevent stroke in certain people
Results from an international clinical trial of more than 4880 participants, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show...
Giving employees ‘decoy’ sanitizer options could improve hand hygiene
Introducing a less convenient option for hand sanitizing may actually boost workers' use of hand sanitizer and increase sanitary conditions...
Reading histone modifications, an oncoprotein is modified in return
Credit: Srikanth Appikonda Turning genes on and off is an intricate process involving communication between many different types of proteins...
Climate change in Quebec equals a much greater diversity of species???
Credit: Jacques Larivée A team of researchers believe that, paradoxically, climate change may result in Quebec's national and provincial parks...
Diverse and abundant megafauna documented at new Atlantic US Marine National Monument
BOSTON (May 17, 2018) Airborne marine biologists were dazzled by the diversity and abundance of large, unusual and sometimes endangered...
Whole-tree logging may not hinder plant biodiversity
Credit: Sarah Bird/Michigan Tech As much as we love our two-by-fours and toilet paper, many of us have mixed feelings...
Mechanical force controls the speed of protein synthesis
Credit: Benjamin Fritch As cells create proteins, the proteins modulate synthesis speed by exerting a mechanical force on the molecular...
NOAA finds rising emissions of ozone-destroying chemical banned by Montreal Protocol
Credit: NOAA image Emissions of one of the chemicals most responsible for the Antarctic ozone hole are on the rise,...
CHEST simulation center awarded $3 million in equipment donation
Credit: Andrea Camino The American College of Chest Physicians® (CHEST) received a $3 million charitable grant from the Olympus Corporation's...
Quartet of NFCR scientists publishes papers in immediate succession
ROCKVILLE, MD - A trio of papers co-authored by four National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) scientists has been published...
A ‘dirty bomb’ battles cancer metastasis
CHICAGO --- The death of her mother from ovarian cancer when Dr. Sui Huang was only 12 led to her...
NIH, Northwestern scientists develop potential new approach to stop cancer metastasis
Researchers have identified a compound that blocks the spread of pancreatic and other cancers in various animal models. When cancer...
Reducing cholesterol could enhance T-cell cancer immunotherapy
CLEVELAND - Cleveland Clinic researchers have demonstrated for the first time that lowering blood cholesterol levels could enhance the success...
Under certain conditions, bacterial signals set the stage for leukemia
A new study by researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine shows that bacterial signals are crucial to the development...
Cellular valve structure opens up potential novel therapies
Credit: Raimund Dutzler, UZH Human cells are enclosed by membranes and are in osmotic equilibrium with their environment. If the...
Mayo discovery means individualized ovarian, brain cancer therapies
ROCHESTER, Minn. - Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered that a molecular communication pathway - thought to be defective in cancer...
New nuclear RNA retention activity discovered
Credit: Toomas Silla Gene expression involves mRNA transport from its place of synthesis to the cytoplasm where protein translation occurs....
A simple software error corrected: bittersweet chloroplast genome becomes the model
Credit: Péter Poczai The first complete plastome nucleotide sequence was published in 1986 for tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) of the...
Less water, same Texas cotton
Credit: James Bordovsky Plants need water--but what about when it's running low? Is it possible to use less water and...
