Health
Perhaps we will not need all the ventilators after all
With a grant of just over DKK 5 million, Professor and DMSc Ulf Simonsen from Aarhus University is immediately beginning...
Oncotarget Roscovitine enhances all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA)-induced nuclear enrichment
Oncotarget Volume 11, Issue 12 reported that using the HL-60 human non-APL AML model where ATRA causes nuclear enrichment of...
Deleting a gene prevents Type 1 diabetes in mice by disguising insulin-producing cells
Credit: Courtesy of Hugo Lee MADISON, Wis. -- Removing a gene from the cells that produce insulin prevents mice from...
The genetic quest to understand COVID-19
Unlocking the genetic code of the novel coronavirus will help us prevent other diseasesCredit: University of Sydney How the novel...
Artificial intelligence for very young brains
Credit: CHU Sainte-Justine Canadian scientists have developed an innovative new technique that uses artificial intelligence to better define the different...
Jumping genes help make neurons in a dish
Credit: © 2020 Della Valle et al. The process of making functional brain cells in a lab dish requires the...
Intense form of radiation slows disease progression in some men with prostate cancer
Highly focused radiation can cause systemic immune response for men with limited spread of prostate cancerCredit: Phuoc Tran, M.D., Ph.D....
COVID-19 preventative vaccine trial for healthcare workers
Credit: MCRI Professor Kathryn North AC, Director of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, has announced its infectious...
Why life can get better as we age — study
Mindfulness helps wellbeing at all agesCredit: Flinders University People say life gets better with age. Now research suggests this may...
Astronaut conducts heart research on station with former colleague
When NASA astronaut Jessica Meir recently slipped her hands into the Life Sciences Glovebox on the International Space Station to...
Insights into the diagnosis and treatment brain cancer in children
Credit: Kanazawa University Ependymoma is a rare form of brain cancer that implicates children and is often tricky to diagnose....
Overcoming primary resistance to checkpoint inhibition with selective inhibitor of TGFβ1
Selective inhibition of latent TGFβ1 activation with SRK-181 has demonstrated an improved preclinical safety profile compared to conventional inhibitors of...
Experimental model mimics early-stage myogenic deficit in boys with DMD
Large spike in TGFβ activity in injured muscle triggers a downward spiral leading to muscle degeneration and failed muscle regenerationCredit:...
Experiments in mice and human cells shed light on best way to deliver nanoparticle therapy for cancer
Credit: Robert Ivkov, Ph.D. Researchers in the cancer nanomedicine community debate whether use of tiny structures, called nanoparticles, can best...
A critical enzyme for sperm formation could be a target for treating male infertility
The protein, SKP1, drives a key transition step in male meiosis, the type of cell division process that results in...
Those living in rural areas, uninsured or on Medicaid less likely to receive recommended lung cancer treatment
Keck Medicine of USC study reveals that socioeconomic status disparities cause patients to miss out on treatment that improves five-year...
Stanford engineers find ankle exoskeleton aids running
Credit: Farrin Abbott/Stanford News Service Running is great exercise but not everyone feels great doing it. In hopes of boosting...
Parents’ physical activity helps kids with developmental disabilities improve motor skills
Credit: Courtesy of Oregon State University College of Public Health and Human Sciences CORVALLIS, Ore. -- It's a self-perpetuating cycle:...
Combination creates powerful central memory T cells for cellular therapy
Interleukin-21 plus panobinostat re-program effector cells to a more persistent type of T cellCredit: The University of Texas MD Anderson...
Finnish researchers join forces to investigate the airborne transmission of coronavirus
The researchers are using a supercomputer to carry out 3D modelling and believe that the first results will be obtained...
