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Repurposing FDA-approved drugs can help fight back breast cancer
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Screening Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved compounds for their ability to stop cancer growth in...
Internists and Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health awarded grant
Washington, DC (November 19, 2018) -- Advancing racial equity in their climate resilience work is the goal of two medical...
UB spinoff Cytocybernetics looks to move into new market with funding from NIH
Credit: Sandra Kicman / University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Cytocybernetics, a University at Buffalo spinoff, has received a $250,000...
Identification of LZTR1 leads to novel insights into RAS-driven diseases
Mutations in RAS proteins initiate many of the most aggressive tumors, and the search for pharmacological inhibitors of these proteins...
Google data shows public interest in conservation is rising
PRINCETON, N.J.--The public's interest in conservation is rising, according to a new analysis led by Princeton University. Based on an...
Study links social isolation to higher risk of death
A large American Cancer Society study links social isolation with a higher risk of death from all causes combined and...
New research questions role of gut parasite in intestinal diseases such as IBS
New University of Kent-led research on the way a common gut parasite behaves could help lead to a better understanding...
Computational chemistry supports research on new semiconductor technologies
Credit: Image: Aaron Beller As new methods have become available for understanding and manipulating matter at its most fundamental levels,...
Vine compound starves cancer cells
Credit: Pictures: Severin Muyisa / Suresh Awale Professor Gerhard Bringmann, an expert in natural product chemistry, and his team from...
RUDN chemists made an electrode for hydrogen fuel production out of Chinese flour
A RUDN chemist developed a new method of obtaining a porous carbon material on the basis of Chinese flour and...
Hidden giants in forest soils
Credit: Jeff Blanchard Characterizing the diversity of microbial cells in a handful of soil is so complex it was considered...
Duke forms prototype of robot dog nose
DURHAM, N.C. -- Every day, thousands of trained K9 dogs sniff out narcotics, explosives and missing people across the United...
Insilico Medicine to present ‘Cure a disease in a year’ challenge at BioDataWorld 2018
Credit: Insilico Medicine Friday, November 16 - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company developing the end-to-end drug discovery and real world...
Insilico Medicine to present predictors of drug-induced cardiotoxicity at BioData EU 2018
Credit: Insilico Medicine Monday, November 19, 2018, Rockville, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company developing the end-to-end drug discovery...
Location, location, location
In a box, within a canister, surrounded by snow, tucked tightly into a backpack strapped to one determined ecologist. Twenty...
From the ashes of a failed pain drug, a new therapeutic path emerges
Credit: Woolf Lab/Boston Childrens Hospital/IMBA In 2013, renowned Boston Children's Hospital pain researcher Clifford Woolf, MB, BCh, PhD, and chemist...
Biophysical Society selects Biophysical Journal paper of the year for 2018
ROCKVILLE, MD - The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce that Bin Xu and Alexandra Jilkine, University of Notre Dame,...
New research on CAR T cell therapy, bone marrow transplants and blood cancer treatments
DUARTE, Calif. -- City of Hope announced today that it will present data on new findings on immunotherapies, including CAR...
Unique Antarctic sledge for the transportation of large cargoes
Credit: Comp Mech Lab of Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Center of the National Technology Initiative...
New dual-action cancer-killing virus
Credit: J Freedman/Cancer Research Scientists have equipped a virus that kills carcinoma cells with a protein so it can also...
