Health
New cellular imaging paves way for cancer treatment
Researchers at the Universities of York and Leiden have pioneered a technique which uses florescent imaging to track the actions...
Study finds delayed food introduction increases risk of sensitization
Hamilton, ON, June 8, 2017 -- Delaying the introduction of potentially allergenic foods until after a baby's first year may...
Distinct wiring mode found in chandelier cells
Credit: (c) Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience A basic tenet of neural development is that young neurons make far...
Wayne State receives $3.05 million NIH award to improve diabetes care in youth
DETROIT - A Wayne State University research team will embark on a five-year, multicenter trial focused on helping parents engage...
Nepal: 15 years after legalizing abortions, gaps in access, equity, quality continue to exist
(Boston)--Nepal is often heralded as a model of successful implementation and rapid scale-up of safe abortion services. Yet despite the...
Kamran Mirza, M.D., Ph.D., named to American Society for Clinical Pathology’s ’40 Under 40′
Credit: Loyola Medicine MAYWOOD, IL - Loyola Medicine pathologist Kamran Mirza, MD, PhD, FASCP, has been named to the American...
Making vessels leaky on demand could aid drug delivery
Credit: Laboratory of Biomolecular Engineering and Nanomedicine/Rice University HOUSTON - (May 8, 2017) - The endothelial cells that line blood...
Inherited, rare skin disease informs treatment of common hair disorders, Penn study finds
Credit: Michael Passanante and Mingang Xu, PhD PHILADELPHIA - It is almost axiomatic in medicine that the study of rare...
Study of sisters helps explain dad’s influence on risky sexual behavior
What is it about a father that affects his teenage daughter's likelihood of engaging in risky sexual behavior? Researchers have...
Investigational vaccine protected monkeys from HIV-like virus
DURHAM, N.C. -- Building on insights from an HIV vaccine regimen in humans that had partial success during a phase...
The role of the protein Rrm3 in the repair of breaks in DNA during replication
Credit: Cabimer A research group from the University of Seville has revealed the role that the protein Rrm3 plays in...
Scientific advances in thoracic oncology in 2016 highlighted by the IASLC
DENVER - Capturing and summarizing the remarkable progress in lung cancer prevention, diagnosis, staging and treatment in 2016, the International...
Lost your appetite? Try inviting yourself to dinner
Credit: Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan - People rate food as tasting better, and eat more of it, when they eat...
Cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS interventions in South Africa
An international African collaboration has turned to statistical analysis to determine the cost effectiveness of major HIV/AIDS interventions in South...
Simple tasks don’t test brain’s true complexity
Credit: Xaq Pitkow/Dora Angelaki The human brain naturally makes its best guess when making a decision, and studying those guesses...
New approach in T-cell therapy to treat cancer
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Scientists have armed immune cells with a new surface molecule....
New leukemia treatment outperforms standard chemotherapies
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) are working on a new treatment for an aggressive type of leukemia that...
Study finds failure to sustain reductions in carcinogens in cigarettes
Waterloo, Ontario: Tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) are potent carcinogens formed predominantly during the cigarette manufacturing process. Despite initial success lowering TSNA...
Synthetic nanochannels for iodide transport
Credit: IBS Exchange of iodide (iodine ions) between bloodstream and cells is crucial for the health of several organs and...
Report looks at liver cancer, fastest-growing cause of cancer deaths in US
A new report provides an overview of incidence, mortality, and survival rates and trends for liver cancer, a cancer for...
