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Credit: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) The field of medicine is always on the lookout for...

Singapore scientists uncover how the liver unclogs itself

Credit: Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI) at the National University of...

Wilderness areas are being destroyed but the World Heritage Convention can protect them

Credit: Gregoire Dubois A University of Queensland-led international study published today urges the UNESCO World Heritage Convention to better conserve...

Older Americans don’t get — or seek — enough help from doctors & pharmacists on drug costs

Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, MI - The majority of Americans over age 50 take two or more prescription...

New clues found to common respiratory virus

Credit: Daisy Leung By age 2, most children have been infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which usually causes only...

In urban Baltimore, poor neighborhoods have more mosquitoes

Credit: BES Photo Archive (Millbrook, NY) A new study published in the Journal of Medical Entomology reports that in Baltimore,...

Confusion over symptoms may be affecting whether women take tamoxifen for breast cancer

Women who are at high risk of developing breast cancer may be failing to take the preventive anti-cancer drug tamoxifen...

Cancer researchers overestimate reproducibility of preclinical studies

Credit: PIXNIO, Public Domain Cancer scientists overestimate the extent to which high-profile preclinical studies can be successfully replicated, new research...

New insights into why the immune system fails to see cancer

Cancer hides in plain sight of the immune system. The body's natural tumor surveillance programs should be able to detect...

A new ribosomal biogenesis regulation point to treat cancer and 5q- syndrome

Credit: IDIBELL Researchers in the Oncobell program at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) - Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO),...

Test identifies breast cancer patients with lowest risk of death

A molecular test can pinpoint which patients will have a very low risk of death from breast cancer even 20...

CWRU researcher awarded over $4.7 million to develop drug-delivery nanotechnology

Nicole F. Steinmetz, PhD, George J. Picha Professor in Biomaterials, member of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Director of...

Depression linked to physical health decline in cancer caregivers

A new report finds cancer caregivers suffer a steady decline in physical health compared to controls, and that symptoms of...

Promising new therapeutic approach for debilitating bone disease

Credit: Dr Michelle McDonald Friday 30 June, 2017: An Australian-led research team has demonstrated a new therapeutic approach that can...

American Cancer Society, Melanoma Research Alliance launch research effort

Credit: Melanoma Research Alliance A new partnership between the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) will...

New opioid use in older adults with COPD associated with increased risk of cardiac death

Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, June 29, 2017--Older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder who recently started using...

Banned chemicals pass through umbilical cord from mother to baby, research finds

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Trace amounts of flame retardants, banned in the U.S. for more than a decade, are still being...

Mitochondria-targeted antioxidant SkQ1 helps to treat diabetic wounds

Members of the Faculty of Biology and A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, a unit of the Lomonosov Moscow State...

A perturbed skin microbiome can be ‘contagious’ and promote inflammation, Penn study finds