Health
Scientists discover skin keeps time independent of the brain
Skin expresses its own photoreceptors using a previously mysterious member of the opsin gene family, neuroposinCredit: Alice Gray Squids, octopuses,...
New marker for tumor aggression in neurofibromatosis type 1
New molecular insights could mean more accurate prognoses and better selection of therapiesCredit: Acta Neuropathologica Communications Researchers at the Johns...
New international exercise guidelines for cancer survivors
Credit: Martin Dee/University of British Columbia For the rising number of cancer survivors worldwide, there's growing evidence that exercise is...
Pioneering cell therapies for non-responders to current immunotherapies
Killer T cells identified in blood that can hone in on mutations uniquely expressed in cancer cells pave the way...
MSU and Spectrum Health researchers team up to find new treatments for ‘orphan diseases’
These understudied disorders afflict up to 25 million AmericansCredit: Spectrum Health Grand Rapids, Mich., October 16, 2019 - The National...
UNH researchers find climate change increases risk of mercury contamination
Credit: Credit: Florencia Fahnestock/UNH DURHAM, N.H.--As global temperatures continue to rise, the thawing of permafrost in Arctic areas is being...
Diabetes: A next-generation therapy soon available?
By identifying a protein that helps regulate blood glucose and lipids, researchers at UNIGE hope for the rapid development of...
Assessment of circularized E7 RNA, GLUT1, and PD-L1 in anal squamous cell carcinoma
The cover for issue 57 of Oncotarget features figure 2, 'Overall survival analysis of GLUT1, PD-L1, and histologic architecture,' by...
Oxygen in hyperbaric chamber provides relief after radiotherapy
Credit: Photo by Anders Kjellberg Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) can relieve self-reported symptoms and side-effects of radiotherapy against cancer in...
Competitive people are more prone to drug consumption
Credit: Universidad de Córdoba (Spain) Hostile and competitive people are more likely to give in to drug consumption, according to...
Researchers leverage new grant to benefit climate, cows
New England scientists will test algae for dietary supplements to decrease methane emission by cattleCredit: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences...
New textbook explains human epigenetics to undergraduates
Credit: Springer The world's first undergraduate textbook on epigenetics focusing on humans has just been released by University of Eastern...
Factors that predict obesity by adolescence revealed
Credit: i-yunmai Three simple factors that predict whether a healthy weight child will be overweight or obese by adolescence have...
Nanomesh drug delivery provides hope against global antibiotic resistance
The fight against antibiotic resistance takes a major step forward with scientists discovering a concept for fabricating nanomeshes as drug...
Society is rejecting facts; medical researchers can help
Credit: Alex Dolce, Florida Atlantic University One study says coffee is good for you, while another study says that it's...
Bolivian forager-farmers with amazing heart health are split over what makes a good life
Lifestyle may be central to maintaining health in a small society undergoing change in livelihood and nutrition, Baylor University researcher...
In Baltimore, lower income neighborhoods have bigger mosquitoes
Larger mosquitoes better at transmitting disease, put residents at riskCredit: CDC (Millbrook, NY) Low-income urban neighborhoods not only have more...
Syphilis infection rates in dialysis patients exceed general population
Credit: Phil Jones, AU senior photographer AUGUSTA, Ga. (Oct. 15 , 2019) - Syphilis rates, like other sexually transmitted disease...
Study: Nonsurgical treatment options effective for sinus issues
A new study shows medication, not surgery, can be a successful therapeutic option for severe chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polypsCredit:...
Investigating the full spectrum of suicide
New self-injury mortality study allows closer look at trends in suicide and drug overdose deathsCredit: McLean Hospital A recent study...
