Health
Gaining weight between pregnancies boosts diabetes risk
Credit: Anne Sidsel Herdlevar, University of Bergen. The study performed at the University of Bergen shows that increasing Body Mass...
UCLA receives $5 million grant for sharing research on AIDS and substance abuse
Credit: Enrique Rivero/UCLA The National Institute on Drug Abuse has awarded $5 million to researchers at UCLA to develop a...
Genetic study uncovers fungal sex secrets, which shed light on candidiasis
Credit: Ewa Ksiezopolska & Toni Gabaldon, CRG. Working together with researchers in the Université Paris-Sud in France and University Medical...
Penn-led research elucidates genetics behind Salmonella’s host…
It's called bird flu for a reason. Particular characteristics about the influenza virus known as H5N1 allow it to primarily...
Steering an enzyme’s ‘scissors’ shows potential for…
Credit: UBC Faculty of Medicine The old real estate adage about "location, location, location" might also apply to the biochemical...
Your brain on exercise
Credit: Courtesy Photo It's universally accepted that the benefits of exercise go well beyond fitness, from reducing the risk of...
$11.5 million program project aims to combat malaria drug resistance
Credit: courtesy of Texas Biomed San Antonio, Texas (Sept. 20, 2017) – Texas Biomedical Research Institute researchers, Dr. Tim Anderson...
Cebit 2017: Computational biologists predict antibiotic resistances…
Credit: Curetis The researchers will be presenting their rapid test procedures, and their outlook for the future, at Stand E28...
ASTRO issues guideline for use of stereotactic radiation in…
Credit: American Society for Radiation Oncology/Adam Donohue ARLINGTON, Va., June 12, 2017 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)...
IU biologists report method to calculate lifetime energy requirements of cells, genes
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — In a recently published paper, Indiana University biologists have calculated the lifetime energy requirements of multiple types...
In defense of pathogenic proteins
IMAGE: Scientists found in yeast cells protein aggregates (light green spots). As cells age and divide, these aggregates become more...
Zika virus challenges for neuropsychiatry recently published by Dove…
A new study, published in the Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment journal, examines this by critically reviewing the literature. The Zika...
Researchers develop technology enabling standard cameras to produce hyperspectral images
Credit: Ben-Gurion U. BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL…September 13, 2017 – Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed miniaturized hyperspectral...
Dulling cancer therapy’s double-edged sword
Credit: Journal of Experimental Medicine/Sulciner et al. Researchers have discovered that killing cancer cells can actually have the unintended effect...