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Maya Schuldiner receives EMBO Gold Medal 2017
Heidelberg, 8 June 2017 - Maya Schuldiner from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel is the recipient of the...
New leukemia treatment outperforms standard chemotherapies
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) are working on a new treatment for an aggressive type of leukemia that...
SpaceX Dragon to deliver research to Space Station
Credit: NASA SpaceX is scheduled to launch its Dragon spacecraft for its eleventh commercial resupply mission to the International Space...
Kamran Mirza, M.D., Ph.D., named to American Society for Clinical Pathology’s ’40 Under 40′
Credit: Loyola Medicine MAYWOOD, IL - Loyola Medicine pathologist Kamran Mirza, MD, PhD, FASCP, has been named to the American...
Bitter taste receptors may hold the key to managing preterm labor
This could be good news for those trying to prevent preterm labor: New research published online in The FASEB Journal...
Report looks at liver cancer, fastest-growing cause of cancer deaths in US
A new report provides an overview of incidence, mortality, and survival rates and trends for liver cancer, a cancer for...
Autonomous machines edge towards greater independence
Cars that can drive autonomously have recently made headlines. In the near future, machines that can learn autonomously will become...
Balance, gait negatively impacted after chemotherapy treatment
COLUMBUS - A single chemotherapy treatment can result in a significant negative impact on walking gait and balance, putting patients...
Making vessels leaky on demand could aid drug delivery
Credit: Laboratory of Biomolecular Engineering and Nanomedicine/Rice University HOUSTON - (May 8, 2017) - The endothelial cells that line blood...
A seating plan for molecules
Individual pieces of a jigsaw puzzle joined together as if moved by magic - that is what material researchers of...
Cell cultures go for the gold
Credit: BioServe A wide variety of research relies on growing cells in culture on Earth, but handling these cells is...
Sensitivity to inequity is in wolves’ and dogs’ blood
Credit: Robert Bayer Not only dogs but also wolves react to inequity - similar to humans or primates. This has...
New international guidelines issued on dementia with Lewy bodies
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Susan Williams, wife of the late actor and comedian Robin Williams, called Lewy body disease "the terrorist...
Investigational vaccine protected monkeys from HIV-like virus
DURHAM, N.C. -- Building on insights from an HIV vaccine regimen in humans that had partial success during a phase...
How plants prevent oxidative stress
Credit: Kobe University When excess light energy is absorbed by plants during photosynthesis, harmful reactive oxygen species are produced. These...
Carotid artery gives away human biological age
Credit: MIPT's Press office Russian researchers have provided a new method of determining human biological age. The group hails from...
Nepal: 15 years after legalizing abortions, gaps in access, equity, quality continue to exist
(Boston)--Nepal is often heralded as a model of successful implementation and rapid scale-up of safe abortion services. Yet despite the...
Researchers identify how class of drugs blocks Hepatitis C virus replication
Credit: David Kinton, UNC School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC - Globally, an estimated 71 million people are living with...
Lost your appetite? Try inviting yourself to dinner
Credit: Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan - People rate food as tasting better, and eat more of it, when they eat...
Researchers identify immune component up-regulated in brain after viral infection
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 6, 2017--A new study of infection by a virus that...
