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Salk Institute’s Tony Hunter wins 2018 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(June 19, 2018) Salk American Cancer Society Professor Tony Hunter has been awarded the 2018 Tang...
Breast cancer could be prevented by targeting epigenetic proteins, study suggests
Credit: Casey et al., 2018 Researchers at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto have discovered that epigenetic proteins promote...
Blood signature could improve early TB diagnosis
(The Francis Crick Institute) A gene signature in the bloodstream can reveal whether someone is going to develop active tuberculosis...
EU-LIFE urges the EU Parliament and Council to push for a strong Horizon Europe
Credit: EU-LIFE EU-LIFE, the alliance of 13 leading life science research institutes in Europe announced its reaction to the European...
Absence epilepsy — When the brain is like ‘an orchestra without a conductor’
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine At first, the teacher described her six-year-old student as absentminded, a daydreamer. The boy was...
Palm oil: The carbon cost of deforestation
(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Palm oil has become part of our daily lives, but a recent study by EPFL...
World’s first intra-operative MRI-guided robot for bilateral stereotactic neurosurgery
Credit: @The University of Hong Kong Stereotactic neurosurgery is one of the treatment to a variety of movement and neuropsychiatric...
FSU study finds religious involvement does little to prevent opioid abuse
Credit: FSU Photo/Bill Lax Does going to church help people avoid struggles with opioid abuse? New research from Florida State...
Methadone and buprenorphine reduce risk of death after opioid overdose
(NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse) A National Institutes of Health-funded study found that treatment of opioid use disorder with either...
Diagnostics of genetic cardiac diseases using stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes
Credit: Authors A new study by Professors Martti Juhola and Katriina Aalto-Setälä of the University of Tampere in Finland demonstrates...
Loyola Medicine physician Susan Hou, MD, receives award in humanities and medical ethics
MAYWOOD, IL - Loyola Medicine kidney specialist Susan Hou, MD, who co-founded a clinic that provides free medical care to...
Mendelsohn shares Tang Prize for leadership in developing targeted therapy
(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Targeted cancer therapy pioneer John Mendelsohn, M.D., researcher and former president of...
Lion conservation research can be bolstered by input from a wide-range of professionals
The conservation of lions, while maintaining the well-being of people that live around them, is a complex problem that should...
Mayo Clinic discovers gene mutations linked to pancreatic cancer
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Six genes contain mutations that may be passed down in families, substantially increasing a person's risk for...
Tackling bullying could help reduce depression in autistic teens
Teenagers with difficulties in social communication, including autism have higher rates of depressive symptoms, especially if they are being bullied....
New immunotherapy trial for children with central nervous system tumors opens
Credit: Seattle Children's SEATTLE - June 19, 2018 - Seattle Children's has opened a pioneering chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell...
Mechanism controlling multiple sclerosis risk identified
While the DNA sequence remains the same throughout a person's life, the expression of the encoded genes may change with...
Monash research provides insights into why older people respond poorly to cancer treatment
Credit: Monash University It's called the Silver Tsunami - the increased incidence of cancer with ageing, combined with the rapidly...
Finding genes controlling ovarian reserve could hold key to better female fertility care
Credit: Jackson Laboratory image courtesy of Ewelina Bolcun-Filas, Ph.D. For a woman to conceive and deliver a healthy baby, thousands...
Can evolution explain why the young are often more susceptible than adults to infection?
In many species, including humans, the young are often more susceptible to infection than adults, even after accounting for prior...