Health

Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE), a fully integrated gene therapy company dedicated to challenging the inevitability of genetic disease, today announced...

£8.6 million awarded for global health research

(Queen Mary University of London) Researchers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have secured new awards totaling £8.6m to...

Wiley and International AIDS Society confirm new publishing partnership

Hoboken, NJ --July 13, 2017 -- John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), is pleased to announce a new partnership...

Researchers identify potentially safer substitutes for BPA

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have identified a group of potential substitutes for bisphenol...

New gene therapy treatment routes for motor neurone disease uncovered in new study

Scientists investigating the genetic causes and altered functioning of nerve cells in motor neurone disease (MND) have discovered a new...

Decline in financing could undermine malaria efforts

Global malaria elimination funding is declining at a time when it remains crucial to eliminating the disease worldwide, according to...

DFG Senate Commission presents 53rd list of maximum workplace concentrations and biological tolerance values

The Permanent Senate Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area of the Deutsche...

The BGRF and Diversity.AI announce a new tool to assess organizational diversity

Credit: Diversity.AI The Biogerontology Research Foundation releases the results of their first pilot study, conducted as part of their ongoing...

A big step? Trial will test improvisational dance as dementia therapy

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - July 13, 2017- Depending on what generation you belong to, the term "improvisational dance" may conjure up...

Bakaletz Lab biofilm work published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The laboratory of Lauren Bakaletz, PhD, director, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and vice president of basic sciences, The Research Institute...

EPSRC announces £138 million investment in research-business partnerships

(Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Two major investments in research partnerships that will strengthen the links between the UK's...

Cancer cells force normal cells to mimic viruses to help tumors spread, resist treatment

PHILADELPHIA - In a study that could explain why some breast cancers are more aggressive than others, researchers say they...

Study reveals interplay of an African bat, a parasite and a virus

Credit: Tony Goldberg, UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- If there is anything scientists are certain of when it comes to bats...

Testing a soft artificial heart

Credit: ETH Zurich It looks like a real heart. And this is the goal of the first entirely soft artificial...

Diet rich in tomatoes cuts skin cancer in half in mice

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Daily tomato consumption appeared to cut the development of skin cancer tumors by half in a mouse...

Mountain gorillas have herpes virus similar to that found in humans

Credit: Courtesy Tierra Smiley Evans/UC Davis Scientists from the University of California, Davis, have detected a herpes virus in wild...

Can sexual risk and behaviors among women help explain HIV disparities by race/ethnicity?

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 13, 2017 -- Researchers examined the sexual behaviors of a...

Using a microRNA to shift the makeup of glioblastoma subtypes

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), an extremely aggressive brain cancer, is a very complex disease. It is characterized by a fast-growing tumor...

Is ‘ovarian tissue freezing’ superior to egg freezing?