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Credit: Jonathan Hillenbrand Aliso Viejo, CA and Evanston, IL (September 12, 2017): Ambry Genetics (Ambry), a leading clinical genetics-testing lab,...

Toxicologists recommend human cell-based methods to identify asthma-causing chemicals

Credit: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Chemicals that could potentially cause asthma through an immune reaction could be better identified...

These mutations could be key to understanding how some harmful conditions develop

A team of researchers led by a bioinformatician at the University of California San Diego has developed a method to...

How liver cancer develops

Credit: USZ Liver cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related death and represents the fastest rising cancer worldwide. In most...

UAlberta chemist creates next generation of neuroscience tools

UAlberta chemistry professor Robert Campbell is developing new ways to see and manipulate the activity of neurons in the brain,...

New evidence suggests octupuses aren’t loners

Credit: Peter Godfrey-Smith. Octopuses are usually solitary creatures, but a new site in the waters off the east coast of...

Fire ant venom compounds may lead to skin treatments

Credit: From Arbiser et al Scientific Reports (2017). Compounds derived from fire ant venom can reduce skin thickening and inflammation...

Crapemyrtle pest to be targeted by $3.3 million grant to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension

Credit: (Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service photo by Kathleen Phillips) COLLEGE STATION -- The most popular flowering shrub in the...

Airline industry could fly thousands of miles on biofuel from a new promising feedstock

Credit: Claire Benjamin/University of Illinois A Boeing 747 burns one gallon of jet fuel each second. A recent analysis from...

Rising CO2 leading to changes in land plant photosynthesis

Researchers led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have determined that major changes in...

Springer Nature pioneers charitable incentive system for peer reviewers

Peer reviewers are enabling people in developing countries to access safe drinking water as the result of a collaboration between...

Northeastern biophysics study makes exciting advancements for the future of DNA sequencing

Credit: Image courtesy of Ella Maru Studio A Northeastern research team has developed new technology that optimizes DNA sequencing using...

Scientists discover genetic timetable of brain’s aging process

The programme controls how and when brain genes are expressed at different times in a person's life to perform a...

Neck mass in adults: Guideline for evaluation provides framework for timely diagnosis

CHICAGO, IL --With the development of the Clinical Practice Guideline: Evaluation of the Neck Mass in Adults, published today in...

Abdominal fat a key cancer driver for postmenopausal women

LUGANO-MADRID, 10 September, 2017 - Body fat distribution in the trunk is more important than body weight when it comes...

Cancer patients struggle with key aspects of clinical trial methodology

LUGANO-MADRID, 10 September, 2017 - Clinical trials are fundamental to the development of new treatments for cancer, yet the annual...

Incidence of acute myocardial infarction may increase the day after Asian dust exposure