Health
Blushing plants reveal when fungi are growing in their roots
Credit: Temur Yunusov and Alfonso Timoneda Almost all crop plants form associations with a particular type of fungi - called...
Phase two CD19-antibody-drug conjugate trial demonstrates promise for aggressive lymphoma
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center part of promising clinical trial for aggressive lymphomaCredit: MUSC Hollings Emma C. Vought MUSC Hollings Cancer...
Chemotherapy can induce mutations that lead to pediatric leukemia relapse
A collaboration led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Shanghai Children's Medical Center and others revealed how thiopurines produce mutations...
Perfecting collagen production in osteogenesis imperfecta
By studying the controversial idea that hematopoietic stem cells could give rise to osteoblasts, researchers at MUSC Health aim to...
‘Good cholesterol’ may protect liver
Study in mice, human blood samples, suggests HDL from the intestine may prevent liver inflammationCredit: Brad W. Warner The body's...
Advanced bladder cancers respond to immunotherapy regardless of gene mutation status
Credit: UNC LIneberge Comprehensive Cancer Center CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina--A new study has demonstrated that patients with advanced bladder cancers...
Tulane spin-out company to develop new treatment for pelvic organ prolapse
BioAesthetics Corp. is teaming up with a Tulane biomedical engineering professor to develop better treatment for pelvic organ prolapseCredit: Courtesy...
NIH awards more than $20 million to international HIV database centers
IeDEA program analyzes health data from over 2 million people to advance HIV careCredit: NIAID WHAT: The National Institutes of...
ASMBS Foundation awards research grants for studies related to COVID-19 & obesity
Credit: ASMBS Foundation Newberry, FL - July19, 2021-- The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) Foundation today announced...
Pathogens get comfy in designer goo
Rice, Baylor labs use custom hydrogels to mimic insides of intestines, study infectious bacteriaCredit: Rice University/Baylor College of Medicine HOUSTON...
Generation and application of the high-Q resonance in all-dielectric metasurfaces
Credit: Opto-Electronic Advances In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2021.200030 , Researchers led by Professor Liu Yan from...
UMD Develops a DASH-Plus community-based hypertension management program for older adults
New USDA-NIFA funding brings together research, academics, and Extension to improve knowledge, access, and self-monitoring skills for hypertension managementCredit: Edwin...
3D imaging reveals neural ‘vicious cycle’ in fatty liver disease
Credit: Adori et al., Science Advances, July 2021. With the application of a novel three-dimensional imaging technology, researchers at Karolinska...
Characterized drugs show unexpected effects
Known and yet unexpected: many active substances influence the cholesterol homeostasis and thereby possibly a SARS-CoV-2 infectionCredit: MPI of Molecular...
Toni Whitaker receives $3.1 million for UTHSC’s LEND program
Credit: UTHSC Memphis, Tenn. (July 21, 2021) - The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a University of...
Linda Partridge to present at the 8th Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting 2021
Linda Partridge to present new research in the biology of aging at the world's largest aging research for drug discovery...
Structural biology provides long-sought solution to innate immunity puzzle
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - July 20, 2021 - UT Southwestern researchers report the first structural confirmation that...
Largest-ever type 1 diabetes genetic study IDs potential treatment targets
Credit: UVA Health Scientists have completed the largest and most diverse genetic study of type 1 diabetes ever undertaken, identifying...
MRI, clear cell likelihood score correlate with renal mass growth rate
Standardized non-invasive clear cell likelihood score--derived from MRI--correlates with the growth rate of small renal masses and may help guide...
Study shows cancer misinformation common on social media sites
Credit: Huntsman Cancer Institute A new study published online today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute reports that...
