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Cancer researchers highlight clinical potential of liquid biopsy using droplet digital PCR technology at the 2019 AACR Annual Meeting
Atlanta-March 29, 2019-New research demonstrating the clinical utility of Bio-Rad's Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR) powered liquid biopsy will be presented...
Pain, pain go away: new tools improve students’ experience of school-based vaccines
Student-centered support tools reduce vaccine-associated pain, fear, and fainting during school-based clinicsLearn about how to reduce pain, fear and dizziness...
Dr. Lauren Ferrante, critical care expert, becomes inaugural Hurria awardee at #AGS19
Credit: (C) 2019. American Geriatrics Society The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and the AGS Health in Aging Foundation today conferred...
New Yorkers brace for self-cloning Asian longhorned tick
Columbia researchers warn that NYC's Asian longhorned tick population is larger than previously knownCredit: Center for Disease Control and Prevention...
Research provides framework for developing Ebola virus therapeutic under animal rule
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) today announced that, for the first time, the U.S. Food...
A bad bout of flu triggers ‘taste bud cells’ to grow in the lungs
The discovery of these seemingly out-of-place sensing cells may lend insight into possibilities for protecting lung function in people who...
Researchers at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s optimize gene editing for SCD and beta thalassemia
New strategy for editing blood stem cells is more efficient and targetedCredit: Daniel Bauer/Boston Children's Hospital Researchers at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's...
Fungus has decimated the populations of 501 amphibian species worldwide
Survey by researchers in 16 countries is published in Science. Authors say chytrid fungus is responsible for heaviest biodiversity loss...
Columbia awarded grant for opioid education and naloxone training on college campuses
March 28, 2019 -- Rachel Shelton, ScD, MPH, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health assistant professor of Sociomedical Sciences, and...
Illinois study identifies a key to soybean cyst nematode growth
Credit: Nathan Schroeder, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - The soybean cyst nematode, one of the crop's most destructive pests,...
UAB aging and longevity researchers win international prize
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - University of Alabama at Birmingham aging expert -- and once-upon-a-time lion trainer -- Steven Austad,...
First ever living donor HIV-to-HIV kidney transplant
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine For the first time, a person living with HIV has donated a kidney to a transplant...
American Association for Cancer Research honors Cancer Control and Survivorship Program
The 13th AACR Team Science Award recognizes St. Jude interdisciplinary team for its significant contributions made to pediatric cancer epidemiology...
Novel study links fetal exposure to nicotine and sudden infant death syndrome
In utero exposure to nicotine has postnatal effects on development of the heart and its response to adrenalin and may...
Researchers discover a critical receptor involved in response to antidepressants like ketamine
UMD School of Medicine Research helps uncover how certain receptors play role in the mechanism of fast-acting antidepressants Effective treatment...
Researchers target metastasis in fight against cancer
Experimental combined drug therapy shows promise in preventing tumours from growing and spreading.Credit: Jordan Carson An experimental combination drug therapy...
Scientists tie walnuts to gene expressions related to breast cancer
Credit: Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - New research from Marshall University links walnut consumption...
Research leads to new molecular diagnostic tool
Computational analysis of epigenetic patterns facilitates diagnosis of unknown hereditary disorders LONDON, ON - A new sophisticated computational model, developed...
Promising new drugs for old pathogen Mtb
Tuberculosis (TB), an ancient and notoriously difficult disease to treat, has killed millions through the course of human history; and...
Sea anemones are ingesting plastic microfibers
Tiny fragments of plastic in the ocean are consumed by sea anemones along with their foodCredit: Manoela Romanó de Orte...
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