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How to implement Advance Care Planning for patients
Credit: Lancaster University Emeritus Professor Sheila Payne from the International Observatory on End of Life Care at Lancaster University helped...
MIRO trial: 3-year outcomes favor laparoscopic surgery for esophageal cancer
LUGANO-MADRID, 05 September, 2017 - Patients requiring surgery for oesophageal cancer fare better after undergoing a hybrid minimally invasive oesophagectomy...
Recurrence of prostate cancer could be reduced thanks to exciting new discovery
Ground breaking research could reduce the recurrence of prostate cancer in males, a new study in the journal Nature Communications...
Zika virus could be used to treat brain cancer patients, study suggests
Credit: Zhu et al., 2017 Recent outbreaks of Zika virus have revealed that the virus causes brain defects in unborn...
Hop, skip, run, leap: Unpredictability boosts survival for bipedal desert rodents
ANN ARBOR--Sometimes it pays to be unpredictable. A new study shows that when bipedal desert rodents called jerboas are being...
How receptors for medicines work inside cells
Credit: Graphic: Team Calebiro The human genome encodes hundreds of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). These form the largest group of...
Aerial drones deliver sweet spot for HAB research at VIMS
Credit: Drone imagery by VIMS professor Donglai Gong. Harmful algal blooms or HABs are notoriously difficult to sample. They can...
NYIT biologist receives NIH support for bone-healing research
Credit: NYIT NYIT (New York Institute of Technology) has been awarded $442,000 to pursue research into a gene critical in...
The STING of death in T cells
The cells of the innate immune system use a signaling pathway comprising STING (Stimulator of interferon genes) to detect DNA...
When not to eat your kids
Even though it is known to be a cannibal, the mangrove rivulus or killifish of the Americas will never eat...
Mystery solved: How thyroid hormone prods red blood cell production
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (September 5, 2017) - For more than a century, physicians have anecdotally noted that patients with an underactive...
New book on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine from CSHLPress
Credit: Joseph P. Vacanti Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) announced the release of Tissue...
Scientists developed ‘smart fertilizer’
Credit: Press-office SibFU According to the head of the works Tatiana Volova, Professor of SibFU and the Head of Laboratory...
Dig, dive, survive
We humans aren't the only creatures drawn by the smell of a good meal. Fruit fly larvae, it turns out,...
Building a morphogen gradient by simple diffusion in a growing plant leaf
Credit: NIBB In an article published on September 5th in Biophysical Journal, the team of Associate Professor Kensuke Kawade at...
Invasive plants change ecosystems from the bottom up
In a common garden at the University of Rhode Island, Laura Meyerson has been growing specimens of Phragmites - also...
Heparin stimulates food intake and body weight gain in mice
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine and South China Agricultural University Heparin is a medication widely used to prevent blood clotting;...
Was the primordial soup a hearty pre-protein stew?
(Georgia Institute of Technology) How proteins evolved billions of years ago, when Earth was devoid of life, has stumped many...
Helping in the fight against illegal gold mining in Colombia
Credit: University of Portsmouth A University of Portsmouth disaster specialist is helping with the fight in Colombia against illegal gold...
California Academy of Sciences assembles genome of threatened northern spotted owl
Credit: © 2017 California Academy of Sciences SAN FRANCISCO (September 5, 2017)--A charismatic owl iconic to Pacific Coast forests is...
