Health
Mongoose pups conceal identity to survive
Credit: Feargus Cooney Young mongooses may conceal their identity — even from their own parents — to survive. Killing of...
India-made rotavirus vaccine achieves World Health Organization prequalification
Credit: Photo: PATH/Gabe Bienczycki PATH applauds Indian vaccine manufacturer Bharat Biotech for receiving prequalification from the World Health Organization (WHO)...
Mesh-like scaffold is disordered in Alzheimer’s-affected cells
IMAGE: Brain cells from a fruit fly model of Alzheimer's disease were compared to healthy brain cells to show a...
Venom becomes more potent as brown snakes age
Credit: Stewart Macdonald The "blood nuking" capabilities of adult brown snake venom only come about after an amazing transformation. New...
Hazardous contamination found around lead battery recycling plants in…
Credit: Occupational Knowledge International San Francisco, Jan. 18, 2018 – Extensive lead contamination was found in lead battery recycling plants...
Drug discovery: Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s spurred by…
Credit: From Zhang et al NSMB (2017). Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are not the same. They affect different regions...
Michelangelo’s Medici Chapel may contain hidden symbols of female anatomy
Credit: Clinical Anatomy Michelangelo often surreptitiously inserted pagan symbols into his works of art, many of them possibly associated with...
Forsyth Institute researcher Floyd Dewhirst named as AAAS Fellow
Credit: The Forsyth Institute. Cambridge, MA – November 20, 2017 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)...
Seven research teams receive Intermountain-Stanford grant award
Credit: Intermountain Healthcare Stanford Medicine and Intermountain Healthcare have announced the recipients of more than $500,000 in seed grants focused...
Changes in the vascular system may trigger Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: Laboratory of Neurobiology and Genetics at The Rockefeller University/Blood As the average age of Americans increases, so too does...
Mathematically modeling HIV drug pharmacodynamics
Credit: frenta / Masterfile 37 million people around the world today live with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which is responsible...
Targeting bladder cancer’s Achilles heel: stem cells
Credit: Cancer Research Two different proteins work separately as well as synergistically to feed a small pool of stem cells...
NIH launches initiative to develop long-acting HIV treatment and…
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, launched a major initiative...
UTMB scientists genetically engineered world’s first Zika virus infectious cDNA…
A multidisciplinary team from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is the first in the world to genetically...
New UAlberta e-tool provides wake-up call for parents of children with excess weight
Credit: Alberta Innovates (Edmonton, AB.) Sometimes we see only the best in our kids — even when a potential health...
Stuttering: Stop signals in the brain prevent fluent speech
Credit: MPI CBS Roughly, one in a hundred adults has problems with speaking fluently. Not much is known about the...
Scientists give star treatment to lesser-known cells crucial for brain…
Credit: Image courtesy of Sergiu Pasca, M.D., Stanford University. After decades of relative neglect, star-shaped brain cells called astrocytes are...
Military health system will test U-M-developed concept under newly signed defense bill
Credit: Tricare ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A health care reform idea originated by University of Michigan faculty will get a...
Killing time: Study sheds light on phages and precision cell…
Credit: Evan Krape/University of Delaware Phage therapy, which exploits the ability of certain viruses to infect and replicate within bacteria,...
Dental implants with antibacterial activity
Credit: Beatriz Palla The quest for surfaces capable of preventing bacterial colonisation and adhesion in the area surrounding the implant...
