Health
Penn’s E. John Wherry receives Stand Up to Cancer’s Innovation in Collaboration Award
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - E. John Wherry, PhD, co-leader of the Abramson Cancer Center's Immunobiology Program and director of...
Novel PET imaging agent could help guide therapy for brain diseases
Credit: SD Krämer et al., ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland RESTON, Va - Researchers have developed a new imaging agent that...
400-year-old documents reveal evidence of Japanese opium production and winemaking
Credit: Prof. Tsuguharu Inaba Research from the Eisei Bunko Research Center of Kumamoto University reveals that Tadatoshi Hosokawa, a 17th...
Children’s facial recognition technology lauded by STAT for impact, novelty
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON-(April 2, 2018)-Children's facial recognition technology that enables more timely diagnoses of rare diseases and...
Combination immunotherapy improves survival in mouse models of mesothelioma
Combined treatment with two cancer immunotherapy drugs - one a novel immune modulator and one that focuses and activates the...
Study examines energy and nutrient digestibility in wheat co-products fed to growing pigs
URBANA, Ill. - With feed costs and the worldwide demand for meat growing, livestock producers are increasingly turning to co-products...
Even DNA that doesn’t encode genes can drive cancer
Most of the human genome -- 98 percent -- is made up of DNA but doesn't actually encode genes, the...
Self-rating mental health as ‘good’ predicts positive future mental health
Researchers have found that when a person rates their current mental health as 'positive' despite meeting criteria for a mental...
When drugs are wrong, skipped or make you sick: The cost of non-optimized medications
Credit: UC San Diego Health Rising drug prices have gotten a lot of attention lately, but the actual cost of...
Study: Better fitness in pre-pregnant women linked with less risk of gestational diabetes
Credit: University of Iowa Expectant mothers who were more fit before pregnancy are at lower risk of developing gestational diabetes,...
Researchers develop injectable bandage
A penetrating injury from shrapnel is a serious obstacle in overcoming battlefield wounds that can ultimately lead to death.Given the...
Spaceflight activates cell changes with implications for stem cell-based heart repair
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A new study of the effects of spaceflight on the development of heart cells...
Uncovering a mechanism causing chronic graft-vs-host disease after bone marrow transplant
Allogeneic bone marrow transplant (BMT) is an essential treatment to cure patients with blood cancers such as leukemia. In patients...
New compound helps activate cancer-fighting T cells
Credit: Jose Gascon/UConn Invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells are powerful weapons our body's immune systems count on to fight...
UMD researcher uncovers protein used to outsmart the human immune system
Credit: Dr. Utpal Pal, University of Maryland A University of Maryland (UMD) researcher has uncovered a mechanism by which the...
Elevated blood pressure before pregnancy may increase chance of pregnancy loss
Elevated blood pressure before conception may increase the chances for pregnancy loss, according to an analysis by researchers at the...
Sandcastles and surprising origins of basic cellular functions
Boston, MA - Cells comprising a tissue can pack into disorderly geometries much as do grains of sand in a...
Potential of manipulating gut microbiome to boost efficacy of cancer immunotherapies
PHILADELPHIA -The composition of bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract may hold clues to help predict which cancer patients are most...
£2.2 million boost for pioneering research into mental health conditions
(University of Edinburgh) Novel research aimed at better understanding mental health conditions such as depression is to receive a £2.2...
Researchers find ways to impede progress of neurodegenerative diseases
Credit: Kazan Federal University Kazan University's partner in this research is the Arbuzov Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry. The...
