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Navigation and spatial memory: New brain region identified to be involved
Navigation in mammals including humans and rodents depends on specialized neural networks that encode the animal's location and trajectory in...
Understanding how fish grow their hearts could help humans, professor finds
It's already known some fish have big hearts - at least during the winter. Now a U of G professor...
Genetic variants found to play key role in human immune system
Credit: Study authors NEW YORK (August 16, 2017) - It is widely recognized that people respond differently to infections. This...
Predators preserve existing animal species
Credit: Photographer is Christian Skov. A new study from Lund University in Sweden increases knowledge of how boundaries and barriers...
Study: Playing smartphone app aids concussion recovery in teens
Credit: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Generally, after suffering a concussion, patients are encouraged to avoid reading, watching...
The irresistible fragrance of dying vinegar flies
Credit: Anna Schroll Markus Knaden and Bill Hansson, and their colleagues at the Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, study ecologically relevant...
129I waste used to track ocean currents for 15,000 km after discharge from nuclear plants
Paris, 16th August: Radioactive 129I has travelled the equivalent of a third of the way round the globe, since being...
Now and Zen: Lower prenatal stress reduces risk of behavioral issues in kids
Credit: University of Ottawa Parenting is a complicated journey full of questions, and when a beloved child begins to show...
Whales turn tail at ocean mining noise
Credit: Photo credit - BRAHSS project (photo taken under permit as part of the Behavioural Response of Humpback Whales to...
PCORI Board approves nearly $74 million for research on palliative care
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved nearly $74 million to fund seven...
PCORI Board approves $115 million to support 20 new patient-centered CER research studies
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved more than $115 million to fund...
CHLA researcher awarded $1.9 million by NIH
Muller Fabbri, MD, PhD, of the Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, has been...
How a nutrient, glutamine, can control gene programs in cells
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The 200 different types of cells in the body all start with the same DNA...
How decision-making habits influence the breast cancer treatments women consider
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- A new study finds that more than half of women with early stage...
Liquid biopsies find distinct genomic profiles in most patients with carcinoma of unknown primary
Bottom Line: Next-generation sequencing of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) identified distinct genomic profiles with potentially targetable alterations in 99.7 percent...
A metabolic treatment for pancreatic cancer?
BOSTON(August 14, 2017) - Pancreatic cancer is now the third leading cause of cancer mortality. Its incidence is increasing in...
CHOP to lead new pediatric data resource center for research in childhood cancer, birth defects
The Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) will lead a new, collaborative effort...
Skewing the aim of targeted cancer therapies
Credit: Georgia Tech / McDonald / Zhang Headlines, of late, have touted the successes of targeted gene-based cancer therapies, such...
Genome sequencing method can detect clinically relevant mutations using 5 CTCs
Bottom Line: Whole genome sequencing using long fragment read (LFR), a technology that can analyze the entire genomic content of...
Clinical trial uses a genetically engineered virus to fight cancer
Credit: Sanford Health SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Sanford Health is the first site in the United States to launch a...
