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Mixing and matching yeast DNA
Credit: Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) The billions of cells in your body can be traced to a single cell. That...
Protein research could help in hunt for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s cures
Credit: University of Kent Protein research at University of Kent could help in hunt for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's cures Research...
The evolutionary origin of the gut
Credit: Sabrina Kaul-Strehlow, Patrick Steinmetz How did the gut, the skin and musculature evolve? This question concerns scientists for more...
Key process to be modernized in production of life-saving drugs, food preservation
Credit: (Purdue University image/Erin Easterling) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A consortium of experts is working to modernize a process that...
Proteins keep a grip on cells
Credit: Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) While you are what you eat, cells are what they touch. The cells with which...
Georgetown hosts global health security expert Beth Cameron
WASHINGTON (Sept. 11, 2017) - Georgetown University's Center for Global Health Science and Security and the Georgetown Global Health Initiative...
New book on Prion Biology from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: Carlo Condello, University of California, San Francisco Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) announced...
Helping plants adapt to climate change
In climate change scenarios, abiotic stresses, such as drought and heat stress, become intensified, leading to severe crop loss. Selection...
Scientists construct first predictive model of inflammatory bowel disease
STAMFORD, Conn. & NEW YORK, NY -- September 11, 2017 -- Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount...
Why your ancestors would have aced the long jump
Credit: Photo by Douglas Boyer, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- A 52-million-year-old ankle fossil suggests our prehuman ancestors were high-flying...
Biotech hormone reduces cost of inducing ovulation in livestock
A Brazilian startup called Kimera Biotecnologia, based in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, has produced the first biotech version of equine chorionic...
As athletes collide in arenas this fall, NJIT concussion experts look to assess and heal
Credit: NJIT Amid the adrenaline rush and dreams of glory in sports arenas large and small this fall, there will...
Body’s own defense against ALS actually drives disease progression at later stages
Credit: Tom Maniatis/Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK -- Columbia scientists have discovered that one of the body's natural defenses...
Ambry Genetics & NorthShore University HealthSystem partner to advance precision medicine
Credit: Jonathan Hillenbrand Aliso Viejo, CA and Evanston, IL (September 12, 2017): Ambry Genetics (Ambry), a leading clinical genetics-testing lab,...
Toxicologists recommend human cell-based methods to identify asthma-causing chemicals
Credit: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Chemicals that could potentially cause asthma through an immune reaction could be better identified...
These mutations could be key to understanding how some harmful conditions develop
A team of researchers led by a bioinformatician at the University of California San Diego has developed a method to...
Neck mass in adults: Guideline for evaluation provides framework for timely diagnosis
CHICAGO, IL --With the development of the Clinical Practice Guideline: Evaluation of the Neck Mass in Adults, published today in...
Abdominal fat a key cancer driver for postmenopausal women
LUGANO-MADRID, 10 September, 2017 - Body fat distribution in the trunk is more important than body weight when it comes...
Cancer patients struggle with key aspects of clinical trial methodology
LUGANO-MADRID, 10 September, 2017 - Clinical trials are fundamental to the development of new treatments for cancer, yet the annual...
Incidence of acute myocardial infarction may increase the day after Asian dust exposure
(Kumamoto University) A recent environmental epidemiological study has shown that Asian sand particles from desert areas of the Asian continent...
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