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Synthetic nanochannels for iodide transport
Credit: IBS Exchange of iodide (iodine ions) between bloodstream and cells is crucial for the health of several organs and...
A fish of all flavors
Credit: Okayama University Receptors are how the body senses its environment. Upon the binding of a ligand, a receptor will...
Revolutionary U of A biopsy-reading invention reaches the masses
Credit: University of Alberta A groundbreaking University of Alberta invention that will impact transplant patients' outcomes--and possibly cancer outcomes in...
Overriding the urge to sleep
Credit: Gradinaru lab/Caltech Caltech researchers have identified a neural circuit in the brain that controls wakefulness. The findings have implications...
California Academy of Sciences advancing hope for reefs in the Philippines
Credit: Terry Gosliner © California Academy of Sciences San Francisco (June 8, 2017)-- The California Academy of Sciences' Hope for...
LA BioMed researcher honored for contributions to medicine
Credit: LA BioMed LOS ANGELES - (June 8, 2017) - The Medical Mycology Society of the Americas has honored John...
From the somatic cell to the germ cell
Credit: Photo: Thomas Kunz An international scientific consortium including the Freiburg plant biologist Prof. Dr. Thomas Laux has discovered a...
IDEAS study spurs related research to impact dementia care
Washington, DC and Chicago, June 8, 2017 -- The milestone Imaging Dementia - Evidence for Amyloid Scanning (IDEAS) Study is...
The brain’s hippocampus can organize memories for events as well as places
Credit: RIKEN People organize memories in photo albums, journals or calendars, but how does the brain first put events in...
Heroin’s use rising, costing society more than $51 billion
Heroin use in the United States was estimated to cost society more than $51 billion in 2015, according to new...
Kidney graft success — does age and sex matter?
Montreal, June 8, 2017 - The success of kidney transplant is dependent on the age and sex of both the...
Simple tasks don’t test brain’s true complexity
Credit: Xaq Pitkow/Dora Angelaki The human brain naturally makes its best guess when making a decision, and studying those guesses...
Study reveals sweetened drinks during pregnancy puts infants at higher risk for obesity
A recent Danish study of children born to women with gestational diabetes, found that maternal daily consumption of artificially-sweetened beverages...
Study finds failure to sustain reductions in carcinogens in cigarettes
Waterloo, Ontario: Tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) are potent carcinogens formed predominantly during the cigarette manufacturing process. Despite initial success lowering TSNA...
Mammograms: Are we overdiagnosing small tumors?
New Haven, Conn. - An analysis of breast cancer data revealed that many small breast cancers have an excellent prognosis...
Study: Common surgical treatment for melanoma does not improve patients’ overall survival
Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES (June 8, 2017) -- Patients who receive the standard surgical treatment for melanoma that has spread...
New treatment hope for women with BRCA1 breast cancers
Researchers have shown for the first time that combining two immunotherapy drugs could be effective in treating triple negative breast...
Innovative therapy strategy for pancreatic cancer uses engineered exosomes targeting mutated KRAS gene
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON - Genetic manipulation of exosomes, virus-sized particles released by all cells, may offer a...
New chemotherapy approach offers breast cancer patients a better quality of life
The chemotherapy drug capecitabine gives patients a better quality of life and is as effective at preventing breast cancer from...
Excessive exercise may damage the gut
A review of published studies has found that people who exercise excessively may be prone to acute or chronic gut...
