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New retrospective study to find mutations to better diagnose breast cancer in the future
Toronto (August 17, 2016) – Mr. Peter Goodhand, President of The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), today announced a...
Babies’ spatial reasoning predicts later math skills
Babies’ spatial reasoning predicts later math skills Credit: Photo by Emory UniversitySpatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do...
TERRA, the RNAs that protect telomeres
In murine cells TERRA is transcribed mainly from chromosome 18 and in a less way from chromosome 9, in a...
New findings detail how beneficial bacteria in the nose suppress pathogenic bacteria
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., August 17, 2016 –Staphylococcus aureus is a common colonizer of the human body. Although, one quarter of the...
Down to the wire: ONR researchers and new bacteria
ARLINGTON, Va.–Scientists sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) have genetically modified a common soil bacteria to create electrical...
Cellular snowplow keeps genes open
EAST LANSING, Mich. — A new discovery at Michigan State University has revealed how special genes stay open for business,...
Scientists find a salty way to kill MRSA
Staphylococcus aureus bacteria Credits: Imperial College London Scientists have discovered a new way to attack Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. The team,...
Study suggests ways to block hypertension in those with sleep apnea
Nanduri Prabhakar, PhD, director of the Institute for Integrative Physiology and Center for Systems Biology of Oxygen Sensing at the...
Potential therapeutic target for Huntington’s disease
Credits: yourgenome.org There is new hope in the fight against Huntington’s disease. Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes discovered that changing...
Chronic pain linked to partners of people with depression
Partners of people with depression are more likely to suffer from chronic pain, research has found. The study shows that...
Max Planck Florida’s Sunposium 2017 Neural Circuits Conference
Once again, several of the world’s most esteemed neuroscience researchers will gather in Palm Beach County to speak at the...
Faculty at MIT and beyond respond forcefully to an article critical of Suzanne Corkin
On August 7, 2016, the New York Times Magazine published “The Brain That Couldn’t Remember,” an article adapted from the...
New method opens up the possibility of customizing breast milk for premature children
About 7 percent of all Danish children are born prematurely. This is of significant im-portance not only to the child’s...
Researchers have developed a new class of artificial proteins
In the journal, Nature Communications, a team of Danish researchers reports that they have developed a new class of artificial...
Could suppression of Gαq/11 signaling be a promising target for treating bone loss?
Intermittent parathyroid hormone treatment (iPTH) and mechanical loading through exercise have both been shown to stimulate bone formation. These osteoanabolic...
New breakthrough in understanding dystonia
Researchers at VIB-KU Leuven have managed to get a clearer view on the roots of dystonia, a neurological disorder that...
New research supports the removal of drug use as a restriction to hepatitis C treatment
New, highly curative hepatitis C therapy is both safe and effective as a treatment option for people who inject drugs...
Where there’s smoke — and a mutation — there may be an evolutionary edge for humans
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A genetic mutation may have helped modern humans adapt to smoke exposure from fires and perhaps...
UH researchers are pioneering tools for heart regeneration
Credit: Courtesy of Yu Liu HOUSTON, Aug. 8, 2016 – Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the...
Study may lead to better breast cancer drugs
Biomedical scientists have revealed the inner workings of a group of proteins that help to switch critical genes on and...