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Aquinnah Pharmaceuticals receives $3.4 million grant from NINDS to advance new therapies for ALS
Credit: © Aquinnah Pharmaceuticals CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- June 20, 2018 -- Aquinnah Pharmaceuticals, leaders in stress granule biology, an exciting...
Rhesus macaque model offers route to study Zika brain pathology
Rhesus macaque monkeys infected in utero with Zika virus develop similar brain pathology to human infants, according to a report...
Annual southeast Asia haze linked to increased respiratory problems
For more than a decade, Southeast Asia has faced annual haze due to a combination of human activity, natural fires,...
Towards personalised medicine: One type of data is not enough
Credit: EMBL-EBI 19 June, Heidelberg, Hinxton - EMBL researchers have designed a computational method to jointly analyse multiple types of...
New screening tool could help diagnose early cognitive decline in dementia from home
An international team of scientists have developed a new way to screen for age-related cognitive decline at home using a...
DNA barcodes that reliably work: A game-changer for biomedical research
Credit: Richard Wheeler (Zephyris). Used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. In the same way that barcodes on your...
Do circulating bone turnover markers indicate hip fracture risk?
The evidence that circulating levels of markers of bone turnover correlate with hip fracture risk among postmenopausal women is limited....
A case of ‘kiss and tell’: Chromosomal kissing gets less elusive
Credit: Luft Lab, MDC How are chromosomes arranged in the cell nucleus? Is it possible that they communicate with one...
Study explores satisfaction, quality of life after breast reconstruction
Boston, MA -- More than 60 percent of women who undergo a mastectomy to treat breast cancer choose breast reconstruction,...
American Psychological Association’s 126th Annual Convention Aug. 9 – 12, 2018, San Francisco
The American Psychological Association's 126th annual convention will take place Aug. 9-12, 2018, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco....
Substance in hair may be a marker for alcohol consumption
A new Drug Testing & Analysis study reveals that measuring levels of ethyl sulphate (EtS), a metabolite of ethanol, in...
Finnish scientists analyzed the proteome of T helper 17 cells
Credit: Turku Centre for Biotechnology T helper 17 (Th17) cells belong to a group of T cells with essential functions...
New ‘e-dermis’ brings sense of touch, pain to prosthetic hands
Credit: Science Robotics/AAAS Amputees often experience the sensation of a "phantom limb"--a feeling that a missing body part is still...
Guidelines address self-management of hospitalized diabetes patients
It is important that patients with diabetes be involved in decisions concerning the management of their condition while they are...
Weight loss reverses heart condition in obesity sufferers
Australian research shows for the first time that obese people who are suffering from atrial fibrillation can reduce or reverse...
New tool using Facebook data shows worldwide gender gap
Credit: UC3M This tool produces a metric, called the Facebook Gender Divide, based on the aggregate statistics of almost 1,5...
Potential to replace race as a risk factor for kidney-transplant failure
Credit: Children's National Health System Right now, more than 100,000 adult and pediatric patients in the U.S. are waiting for...
Surgery in space
With renewed public interest in manned space exploration comes the potential need to diagnose and treat medical issues encountered by...
$10-million gift for brain research, young researchers and faster patient results
A transformative gift of $10 million from the Irving Ludmer Family Foundation in support of the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics...
A collaborative development of a dengue vaccine candidate successful in preclinical study
In-Cell-Art (ICA), a biotechnology company specialized in nanocarrier technologies, BioNet-Asia (BNA), an innovative vaccine developer, and the research team led...
