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A-MUD: A method for automatically detecting mouse song
Credit: Vetmeduni Vienna Mice, like birds, are natural born singers. From birth, they emit a wide repertoire of vocalizations especially...
UA-invented sunscreen protects skin without seeping in
Credit: University of Arizona The University of Arizona has licensed a new, non-penetrating sunscreen to MexiAloe Laboratories, S.A. de C.V.,...
Animal welfare: Potential new indicator of chronic stress in horses
Credit: Martine Hausberger Cortisol, deemed the quintessential stress hormone, allows us to cope with important events and imminent threats. A...
A sweeter way to make green products
Credit: Evan Krape/ University of Delaware The shampoo you washed your hair with this morning. The balloons for the party....
Elizabeth Blackburn, Salk Institute’s first female president, honored by TIME
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--Salk Institute President Elizabeth Blackburn--the Institute's first female president and one of only 12 women to...
New book on The Biology of the TGF-β Family from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: Cover art created by Masato Morikawa, The University of Tokyo. Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory...
Lazy ants make themselves useful in unexpected ways
Credit: Matt Velazquez If the first thing that comes to mind when you think about ants is "industrious," you might...
U of U Health and Janssen Research & Development investigate genetics of suicide
Credit: CDC Data and Statistics Fatal Injury Report 2015 and University of Utah Health Even today, suicide is a taboo...
Meeting a microbe in the morning or in the evening: Is it all the same?
Does the time of day matter when our body is infected by a parasite? According to new research from McGill...
Alcohol industry misleading the public about alcohol-related cancer risk
Led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine with the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, the team analysed the information...
ISEEC 2017: International Society For Evolution, Ecology and Cancer Conference
Can we target cancer's evolutionary and ecological nature? Many biological systems are resilient to shocks, having the ability to return...
From bed to bench and back to bed: Mimicking how HPV-positive cancer responds to treatment
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina, courtesy of Dr. Besim Ogretmen Patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma who...
Human papillomavirus 16 infections may pose variable cancer risk
Human papillomavirus 16 accounts for about half of all cervical cancers, but researchers reporting September 7 in the journal Cell...
Immunotherapy combination safe and 62 percent effective in metastatic melanoma patients
Immunotherapy is a promising approach in the treatment of metastatic melanoma, an aggressive and deadly form of skin cancer; but...
Cancer immunotherapy may get a boost by disabling specific T cells
New York, NY (September 7, 2017)--Cancer immunotherapy drugs only work for a minority of patients, but a generic drug now...
UTA researchers discover connection between low oxygen levels and a human gene
University of Texas at Arlington researchers have established a link between hypoxia, a condition that reduces the flow of oxygen...
Trigger for fatty liver in obesity
Credit: UZH In Switzerland, about every tenth adult suffers from morbid obesity. Such corpulence can not only lead to diabetes...
Double targeting ligands to identify and treat prostate cancer
Credit: JM Kelly et al., Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY RESTON, Va. - Researchers have demonstrated...
Researchers point way to improved stem cell transplantation therapies
Credit: Kollek et al., 2017 Researchers in Germany have demonstrated that hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplants can be improved by...
A tiny device offers insights to how cancer spreads
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- As cancer grows, it evolves. Individual cells become more aggressive and break away...
