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November 4, 2025

New cellular target may put the brakes on cancer’s ability to spread

Credit: Will Kirk/JHU A team led by Johns Hopkins researchers has discovered a biochemical signaling process that causes densely packed...

Alzheimer’s Association calls for new strategies against dementia in Scientific American

The time has come for advancing combination therapies against Alzheimer's disease, explains James A. Hendrix, Ph.D., Alzheimer's Association director of...

Scientists jump hurdle in HIV vaccine design

LA JOLLA, CA - May 26, 2017 - Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have made another important advance...

Coroners unable to agree on what caused a person’s death

Credit: University of Huddersfield A FORMER top detective turned University of Huddersfield researcher has published his findings that coroners in...

Penn Medicine’s Irene Hurford receives Exemplary Psychiatrist Award

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA -- Irene Hurford, MD, an assistant professor in the department of Psychiatry, has received a 2017...

Millions in funding for TU Dresden

TU Dresden is going establish two new Collaborative Research Centres (CRC) and an additional CRC with TUD participation will be...

University, medical foundations partner to create Brown Physicians, Inc.

Credit: David Del Poio for Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In an effort aimed at achieving greater integration of patient...

Penn study finds gray matter density increases during adolescence

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA -- For years, the common narrative in human developmental neuroimaging has been that gray matter in...

Vitamin D in pregnancy may help prevent childhood asthma

A new study published today in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology has found that taking Vitamin D supplements...

Study finds Congo’s miners often resort to hunting wildlife for food

Credit: CREDIT: ©Charlotte Spira/WCS. KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo (May 26, 2017) - A new study by WCS (Wildlife Conservation...

Small non-profit’s unconventional approach offers new hope with autism suramin trial

DALLAS, TX - May 26, 2017 - Results released today from an N of One: Autism Research Foundation supported clinical...

Statins associated with improved heart structure and function

Prague, Czech Republic - 26 May 2017: Statins are associated with improved heart structure and function, according to research presented...

Why communication is vital — even among plants and fungi

Plant scientists at the University of Cambridge have found a plant protein indispensable for communication early in the formation of...

Government transparency limited when it comes to America’s conserved private lands

Credit: Courtesy of Adena Rissman/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- American taxpayers spend millions of dollars each year to conserve privately owned...

Engines of twingenuity: NASA’s twin study investigators have a meeting of the minds

Credit: NASA/Time If you took all the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) in your body and strung it end-to-end, it would reach...

Sediment from Himalayas may have made 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake more severe

Credit: Tim Fulton, IODP-JRSO CORVALLIS, Ore. - Sediment that eroded from the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau over millions of years...

A flip switch for binge-eating?

Credit: Carla Schaffer / AAAS Researchers have identified a subgroup of neurons in the mouse brain that, upon activation, immediately...

Study: A new way to slow cancer cell growth

Credit: University of Rochester Medical Center Cancer is an extremely complex disease, but its definition is quite simple: the abnormal...

Research could bring ‘drastically’ higher resolution to your TV and smartphone

Credit: University of Central Florida Researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a new color changing surface tunable...

US nuclear regulators greatly underestimate potential for nuclear disaster