Health
Fighting the HIV epidemic
Addressing perceived stigma about taking HIV Preventive medication key to helping women at riskCredit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA, PA (NOVEMBER 4,...
Study reveals how brain injury can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder
UCLA team finds that the brain processes fear differently after injuryCredit: Reed Hutchinson/UCLA Post-traumatic stress disorder in U.S. military members...
Stressed to the max? Deep sleep can rewire the anxious brain
A sleepless night can trigger up to a 30% rise in emotional stress levels, new study showsCredit: Graphic by Eti...
Admissions to ER’s for adolescent sexual abuse have more than doubled
Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS - From 2010 to 2016, emergency department admissions for confirmed adolescent sexual abuse in...
How much do we lie when we have sex on the brain?
Credit: (University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster) In a world of seemingly endless opportunities for finding a mate,...
NIH researchers estimate 17% of food-allergic children have sesame allergy
Scientists find sesame antibody testing predicts sesame allergy in food-allergic childrenCredit: NIAID Investigators at the National Institutes of Health have...
EMBL spins the Sleeping Beauty transposase
New possibilities for gene therapiesCredit: Scienseed The team, comprising researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, the Universitätsklinikum Würzburg and...
New approach uses light to stabilize proteins for study
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Researchers report they have developed a new technique that uses light...
Dynamics of silk proteins are key to outstanding stability of spider silk as biomaterial
Interdisciplinary study clarifies role of protein dynamics mediated by the amino acid methionineCredit: Ill./©: Benedikt Goretzki, Ute Hellmich Spider silk...
Published a clinical guide for the genomic diagnosis of Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Chronic Myelomonocytic leukaemia
Credit: Helena Díaz. Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute In Spain, a workgroup of more than 400 researchers, the Spanish Group...
CNIO researchers describe a molecular strategy that helps prevent tumour formation in mice
Credit: CNIO The body's process for manufacturing fatty acids is regulated by the enzyme FASN. In normal cells, this is...
Agri-Neo launches Neo-Temper to prevent flour recalls through pathogen-reduction process
Organic, validated non-thermal food safety solution easily integrates into existing tempering process; preserves nutrition, sensory and functional characteristics of both...
Flotillin is a novel diagnostic blood marker of Alzheimer’s disease
Serum flotillin is a novel diagnostic marker for diagnosis of early AD and MCI-due to ADCredit: © Makoto Michikawa Currently,...
Protein Data Bank at Rutgers Awarded $34.5 million grant
Data bank makes more than 150,000 3D biomolecular structures freely available to the publicCredit: David S. Goodsell The RCSB Protein...
Researchers engineer insulin-producing cells activated by light for diabetes
Pancreatic beta cells 'switched on' by light are engineered to enhance production of insulin in response to glucose levelsCredit: Tufts...
Lymphatic system found to play key role in hair regeneration
Credit: Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller University Given the amount of wear...
Chemotherapy sometimes set the stage for drug-resistant leukemia at relapse
An international collaboration has identified therapy-induced, drug-resistance mutations in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who relapseCredit: St. Jude Children's Research...
New innovations in technology could benefit veterans with PTSD
Credit: Sarah Pack, Medical University of South Carolina New technology aims to improve the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder by...
Alzheimer’s Association Zenith Fellows awards pursue novel treatments, protection gene
Grants support new approaches to treatment of Alzheimer's and other dementiasCredit: Alzheimer's Association CHICAGO, October 31, 2019 - The Alzheimer's...
nTIDE October 2019 Jobs Report: Job gains wane for Americans with disabilities
Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire nTIDE Report-- featuring a successful model for returning people with spinal cord injury...
