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Updated European guidance for the diagnosis and management of osteoporosis in women
The clinical significance of osteoporosis lies in the painful, debilitating fractures that arise, which are a major cause of long-term...
Making a map of the brain
For decades, scientists have viewed the brain as a veritable black box - and now Catherine Dulac and Xiaowei Zhuang...
For early cervical cancer, open hysterectomy is safer than minimally invasive surgery
NEW YORK, NY (October 31, 2018)--A new study shows that women with early-stage cervical cancer who underwent minimally invasive hysterectomy...
A shortcut in the global sulfur cycle
Credit: NASA Sulphur is found in many different compounds throughout the world - not only in the atmosphere, but also...
New study to decode what makes people immune to influenza
November 1, 2018 - The key to lasting protection against influenza may be in your bones. The cells that naturally...
Minimally invasive surgery associated with worse survival for women with cervical cancer compared to open hysterectomy
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center When comparing standard-of-care surgical options for women with early-stage cervical cancer, two studies led by...
‘Cryptic’ interactions drive biodiversity decline near the edge of forest fragments
When humans cut contiguous tropical forests into smaller fragments, ecologists say, forests along the edges of those fragments tend to...
Relapsed leukemia flies under immune system’s radar
Credit: Matt Miller Patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive cancer of the blood, often are treated with stem...
Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, November 2018
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy Transportation--Going with the flow Self-driving cars promise to keep traffic moving...
Cocaine-fentanyl overdoses underscore need for more ‘test strips’ and rapid response
PHILADELPHIA - Penn Medicine emergency department physicians are calling for more readily available testing strips to identify the presence of...
NUS study: RNA defects linked to multiple myeloma progression in high risk patients
Multiple myeloma (MM) is the second most common type of blood cancer where cancer cells accumulate in the bone marrow,...
Seeing cell membranes in a new light
If you want to understand how the cell membrane works, Adam Cohen says, look no further than your kitchen. Cohen,...
Making collective sense of brainwaves
Credit: Reproduced with permission from reference 1 © 2018 John Wiley and Sons The lack of tools to be able...
Investigators study how a protein factor contributes to cancer cell migration
KEY FINDINGS UCLA researchers have discovered a new protein factor that contributes to a fibroblast cell's ability to migrate to...
Study: Impact of mercury-controlling policies shrinks with every five-year delay
Mercury is an incredibly stubborn toxin. Once it is emitted from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants, among other sources,...
The protein Matrin-3 determines the fate of neural stem cells in brain development
Credit: Kanako Niimori-Kita A research group from Kumamoto University, Japan has discovered a new neurogenic mechanism responsible for brain development....
How cancer-causing papillomaviruses evolved
Credit: Chen Z, et al. (2018) Cancer-causing human papillomaviruses (HPVs) diverged from their most recent common ancestors approximately half a...
Searching in soil, scientists find a new way to combat tuberculosis
Credit: Jacob Arthur Pritchard for The Rockefeller University For decades, doctors have been using antibiotics to fight tuberculosis (TB). And...
Specific CD8 T cell states may indicate response to immune checkpoint therapy for melanoma
A multi-institutional research team, led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard,...
Reef RangerBot becomes ‘LarvalBot’ to spread coral babies
Credit: QUT Media QUT's reef protector robot is set to become 'mother' to hundreds of millions of baby corals in...
