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Keck Medicine of USC announces launch of USC Epilepsy Care Consortium
Unique partnership of six independent epilepsy centers combines resources and expertise to treat underserved populationsCredit: Ricardo Carrasco III LOS ANGELES...
E-meditation: A new tool for an ancient technique
How a team of researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina is trying to take meditation practices into the...
When do alcohol-dependent mothers parent harshly?
Credit: Stephen Dow/University of Rochester, researchers Not surprisingly, parents with substance use disorders often struggle with parenting and frequently have...
Avoidance of apoptotic death via a hyperploid salvage survival pathway after platinum treatment in high grade serous carcinoma cell line models
The cover for issue 62 of Oncotarget features Figure 7, 'Proposed model of the hyperploid pathway as a salvage survival...
New advances in the treatment of advanced lung cancer
As part of a public-private research projectCredit: Xènia Fuentes/UB The University of Barcelona (UB) and Hospital Clínic de Barcelona collaborate...
Consuming cholera toxin counteracts age-associated obesity
Here the research team tested a safe and well-established microbe-based immune adjuvant to restore immune homeostasis and counteract inflammation-associated obesity...
Ammonia levels do not aid management of hepatic encephalopathy in cirrhotic patients
Ammonia is believed to contribute to the pathology of hepatic encephalopathy, but ammonia levels in the blood do not influence...
Patients treated outside NCI centers less likely to receive high-cost lung cancer drugs
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Genetically targeted drugs and immunotherapies are transforming the way we treat many forms of...
National Foundation for Cancer Research conducts Salisbury Award Competition
Winner and runners-up named, Salisbury Family honoredCredit: NFCR ROCKVILLE, MD - The National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) last Thursday,...
NIH awards Cleveland Clinic $12 M to study link between gut microbes, heart disease
Stanley Hazen, M.D., Ph.D., Mark Brown, Ph.D., and their teams will continue to study the role of microbial pathways and...
Children’s Tumor Foundation and DELopen increase access to compounds for neurofibromatosis
Credit: Children's Tumor Foundation New York: November 19, 2019 - The Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF), an innovative and global neurofibromatosis...
Robotic transplants safe for kidney disease patients with obesity
Obese patients previously considered 'ineligible' for transplantCredit: UIC/ Jenny Fontaine Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago report that...
A new pathway to ‘reprogram’ killer cells
Credit: Institute of Pathology, University of Bern The so-called natural killer (NK) cells are cells of the innate immune system...
Milestone reached in new leukemia drug
Credit: Vakoc lab/CSHL, 2019 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists, with chemists and cancer biologists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), have...
Researchers develop a database to aid in identifying key genes for bacterial infections
BacFITBase helps identify therapeutic targets for the production of new antibioticsCredit: UAB Infectious diseases are caused by pathogenic microorganisms capable...
Scientists use catalysts to destroy cancerous cells from within
Credit: UGR Divulga Using "Trojan horses" to combat cancer from within the tumour cells themselves without damaging healthy tissues is...
Complex organ models grown in the lab
Credit: Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology In 2006, Japanese researchers came up with a new way of creating pluripotent...
Be aware of potential complications following tongue-tie surgery in babies
Credit: University of Otago Complications following a procedure to treat tongue-tie in babies are occurring that can result in admission...
MU researchers describe catatonia in Down syndrome
First longitudinal study highlights positive responses to established catatonia therapiesCredit: MU News Bureau COLUMBIA, Mo. - Down syndrome, due to...
‘Face blindness’ may involve a failed brain network, and could shed light on autism
Study of 44 people with prosopagnosia after stroke details brain areas involved in face processing; new work will investigate face...
