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November 4, 2025

Deer prefer native plants leaving lasting damage on forests

ITHACA, N.Y. - When rampant white-tailed deer graze in forests, they prefer to eat native plants over certain unpalatable invasive...

Research may lead to improvements in water use for crop irrigation

Two papers published in Irrigation and Drainage may help improve estimates of water requirements for crops, which will save water...

Lifestyle changes can close regional obesity gap, study finds

Lifestyle differences are to blame for regional variation in obesity rates in Scotland, research has found. Genetic factors cannot completely...

Preeclampsia triggered by an overdose of gene activity

Preeclampsia is the most dangerous form of hypertension during a pregnancy and can be fatal for both mother and child....

Two firms awarded seed grants to develop medical devices for children

Credit: Voxello, LLC The Philadelphia Pediatric Medical Device Consortium (PPDC) has announced its latest round of seed grants to companies...

Jim Mellon announces launch of new book juvenescence: Investing in the Age of Longevity

Credit: Jim Mellon & Al Chalabi Wednesday, October 4th, 2017, London, UK: Biogerontology Research Foundation Trustee Jim Mellon announces the...

Genetic body/brain connection identified in genomic region linked to autism

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - For the first time, Whitehead Institute scientists have documented a direct link between deletions in two genes--fam57ba...

Imaging agents developed to better monitor growth of tumors

Credit: University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB) UAlberta researchers have created two new imaging agents that could help physicians visualize the...

CRI study challenges long-standing concept in cancer metabolism

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 5, 2017 - Scientists at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern...

DSI professor conducts research to combat pancreatic cancer

Credit: DSI Tal Danino, a professor at the Data Science Institute, is conducting research that could help scientists combat the...

Good-guy bacteria may help cancer immunotherapies do their job

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 5, 2017 - Individuals with certain types of bacteria in their gut may be...

Scientists enlist supercomputers, machine learning to automatically identify brain tumors

Credit: Andreas Mang, Sameer Tharakan, Amir Gholami, Naveen Himthani, Shashank Subramanian, James Levitt, Muneeza Azmat, Klaudius Scheufele, Miriam Mehl, Christos...

New research on sperm stem cells has implications for male infertility and cancer

Credit: Huntsman Cancer Institute SALT LAKE CITY - New research from scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University...

‘Smart’ immune cells: Emerging cancer therapy research boosted with NIH award

Credit: Collins lab, UC Davis Assistant Professor Sean Collins, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in the UC Davis College...

Global burden of disease study focuses on liver cancer

A new article published by JAMA Oncology reports the results of the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study on primary...

Why can’t mTOR inhibitors kill cancer? Study explains

Credit: McGill University and Masahiro Morita, Ph.D. Anti-cancer drugs called mTOR inhibitors slow the growth of cancer cells but show...

Researchers identify genetic drivers of most common form of lymphoma

DURHAM, N.C. -- Lymphoma is the most common blood cancer, but the diagnosis belies a wildly diverse and little understood...

Genomic screening helps doctors target girl’s cancer

Credit: Sarah Pack Victoria Thompson, clutching a bag of salt and vinegar potato chips while she watches the TV show...

Anti-RAS antibodies show poor reliability in recognizing RAS proteins

Researchers from the Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute at UT Health San Antonio co-authored a paper published Sept. 26 in...

Neuro-Oncologist Dr. Howard Fine wins NIH Director’s Pioneer Award