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Novel concepts for the diagnosis of fatty liver and personalized treatment
Credit: IDM / Nobert Stefan More and more adults - but also about 34 percent of obese children - suffer...
Mutations, drugs drive cancer by blurring growth signals
Genetic mutations in a form of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) may drive tumor formation by blurring cells' perception of...
Bodily sensations give rise to conscious feelings
Credit: Lauri Nummenmaa Humans constantly experience an ever-changing stream of subjective feelings that is only interrupted during sleep and deep...
A computational analysis identifies a new clinical phenotype of severe malaria
Credit: Cominetti O et al, Figure 2 There are more clinical phenotypes of severe malaria than those defined by the...
Online HIV prevention program receives $8.8 million NIH grant
CHICAGO --- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded an $8.8 million grant to Keep It Up!, a novel...
Too much sitting — Nurses’ role in educating patients to reduce health risks of prolonged sedentary time
August 31, 2018 - Sitting for too many hours per day, or sitting for long periods without a break, is...
Investigators find that bile acids reduce cocaine reward
Credit: Photo by Anne Rayner Bile acids -- gut compounds that aid in the digestion of dietary fats -- reduce...
NSF awards $10 million for development, dissemination of genomic tools in diverse species
Credit: Shana Pau, University of Georgia Genetics Department (Image is from the Anolis research colony at the University of Georgia)...
In test with rats, cannabidiol showed sustained effects against depression for 7 days
Commercial antidepressants typically take two to four weeks to have a significant effect on a depressed patient. They are also...
Drug-resistance of gonorrhea in the EU: persistent but stable
Credit: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control/ECDC Neisseria gonorrhoea continues to show high levels of resistance to azithromycin across...
WSU scientists clone virus to help stop overwhelming grape disease
Credit: WSU PROSSER, Wash. - A new discovery by Washington State University scientists could help grape growers roll back a...
Rutgers scientists identify protein that may have existed when life began
Credit: Vikas Nanda/Rutgers University-New Brunswick How did life arise on Earth? Rutgers researchers have found among the first and perhaps...
Faster than we thought: sulfurization of organic material
About 94 million years ago, something happened that led to an unusually high amount of organic material being preserved in...
Mechanism of Marburg virus sexual transmission identified in nonhuman primates
Credit: William Discher, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases Research published today by a team of Army scientists...
Children’s bone cancers could remain hidden for years before diagnosis
Scientists have discovered that some childhood bone cancers start growing years before they are currently diagnosed. Researchers at the Wellcome...
UMD’s Juntti awarded grant to design tools linking gene changes to traits in cichlid fish
Credit: John T. Consoli Scott Juntti, the William J. Higgins Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland, received...
Mapping trees can help count endangered lemurs
Credit: Photo by David Haring, Duke Lemur Center DURHAM, N.C. -- The vast majority of lemur species are on the...
A FEW good collaborators
Credit: Benjamin Wang '20, Lehigh University Suppose you're a farmer cultivating crops in a major river basin. You rely on...
Predicting how splicing errors impact disease risk
Credit: CSHL Dept of Public Affairs Cold Spring Harbor, NY - No one knows how many times in a day,...
Drug-resistance of gonorrhoea in the EU: persistent but stable
Credit: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control/ECDC Neisseria gonorrhoea continues to show high levels of resistance to azithromycin across...
