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Loss of habitat causes double damage to species richness
Credit: Imre Potyó Loss and fragmentation of habitat are among the main reasons why biodiversity is decreasing in many places...
Enhancing power supply resilience to first responders
University of Utah engineer receives $4.4 million grant to develop management system for power distribution systemsCredit: Dan Hixson/University of Utah...
Claudia Bank awarded with the 2019 SMBE Allan Wilson Junior Award for Independent Research
Credit: Sandra Ribeiro The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) announced today that the 2019 SMBE Allan Wilson Junior...
Researchers tap rare pristine air to reveal pollution’s impact
Credit: Video courtesy of PNNL Five years ago, researchers spent three hours packed aboard a steamy Gulfstream-1 research aircraft as...
HKUST scientists discover how RNA PoII maintains accurate transcription with super computer
Credit: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology The message of life is encoded in our genomic DNA through...
Restore natural forests to meet global climate goals
Credit: Credit, S. Lewis. International plans to restore forests to combat global warming are flawed and will fall far short...
New Bombali ebolavirus found in Kenyan bat
Evidence for a widespread virus reservoir in AfricaCredit: Paul Webala Until recently, five ebolavirus species were known, with three of...
NFCR Fellow Susan Band Horwitz receives Canada Gairdner Award
Canada's most prominent scientific prize honors world's biomedical research eliteCredit: Canada Gairdner Foundation, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Della...
New ebolavirus, found in bats, more widespread than thought
Researchers discovered the virus, which does not infect humans, in Kenya, 3,400 miles west of where it first appearedCredit: Paul...
AACR: Genetic study identifies a risk factor for stroke among cancer survivors
Whole genome sequencing sheds light on the risk of stroke in childhood cancer survivors treated with radiation therapyCredit: St. Jude...
Two Harvard Medical School scientists receive prestigious Canada Gairdner Awards
Honors recognize researchers' transformational work in global mental health and protein science Two Harvard Medical School researchers have been named...
Gout treatment may help prevent obesity-related type 2 diabetes, suggests small NIH study
WHAT: The drug colchicine, used to treat the arthritic condition gout, could potentially reduce complications accompanying metabolic syndrome, a combination...
Adults at high risk for HIV infection have low rates of vaccination against HPV
ATLANTA -- Adults who are at high risk of becoming infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS,...
Lauren Sciences LLC wins AU$1 million grant award from FightMND
Lauren Sciences LLC, the private New York biotechnology company developing transformative V-Smart® Nanomedicines for brain diseases, today announced it was...
Genetic variant linked to increased stroke risk in childhood cancer survivors treated with CRT
ATLANTA -- A common single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) was associated with increased risk for developing stroke in childhood survivors who...
Maintenance therapy with rucaparib shows clinical responses in a subgroup of patient with pancreatic cancer
ATLANTA -- Maintenance treatment with the PARP inhibitor rucaparib (Rubraca) was well tolerated and provided clinical responses among patients with...
Prostate cancer incidence and mortality have declined in most countries
ATLANTA -- Prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates are decreasing or stabilizing in most parts of the world, with the...
Surgery associated with increased survival for patients with HER2+ stage 4 breast cancer
ATLANTA -- Surgery was associated with higher survival rates for patients with HER2-positive (HER2+) stage 4 breast cancer compared with...
PARP inhibitors can shrink tumors in pancreatic cancer patients with specific mutations
Data presented in a news conference at AACR Annual Meeting ATLANTA - Switching pancreatic cancer patients to the PARP inhibitor...
Acute flaccid myelitis requires galvanized research response
NIH experts review puzzling muscle paralysis condition in childrenCredit: CDC/Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Yiting Zhang WHAT: Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) presents...
