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DFG to fund 15 new Research Training Groups
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is establishing 15 new Research Training Groups (RTGs) to further support early career...
Myonexus Therapeutics receives FDA Rare Pediatric Disease Designation
Credit: Myonexus Therapeutics NEW ALBANY, OH, May 16, 2018 -- Myonexus Therapeutics, a clinical-stage gene therapy company developing first ever...
Understanding drug-resistant gonorrhea
Can whole genome sequencing illustrate changes in drug susceptibility of gonorrhoea to antimicrobials used for treatment and so help to...
SF State study examines how stereotypes affect memory in older Chinese immigrants
Credit: Stephane Tougard, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) ... Ever have a "senior moment" and worry about what other people...
St. Jude named the WHO’s first Collaborating Centre for Childhood Cancer
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital The World Health Organization has designated St. Jude Children's Research Hospital its first WHO...
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation announces five new Physician-Scientist Training Awards
New York, NY (May 16, 2018) - Physician-scientists are crucial to moving scientific discoveries from the lab to patients, but...
VTC Research Institute leads effort to develop test for mild traumatic brain injury
Credit: Virginia Tech Scientists at two of Virginia's largest universities, working with clinicians from the two major health systems and...
Predicting what drives people to seek, stay in substance-use treatment
Credit: Florida Atlantic University About 22 million Americans are substance dependent (illicit drugs and alcohol), which interferes with routine life...
New study reveals how electronic health records can benefit clinical trials
Credit: SAIL The study entitled "Long term extension of a randomised controlled trial of probiotics using electronic health records" led...
Understanding veteran privacy rules could help improve counseling strategies
Credit: Missouri School of Journalism COLUMBIA, Mo. - When combat veterans return home, they often are faced with questions about...
Elevated homocysteine identified as metabolic risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases
Credit: Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (Philadelphia, PA) - The amino acid homocysteine occurs naturally in the...
Artificial Intelligence improves stroke and dementia diagnosis in most common brain scan
Machine learning has detected one of the commonest causes of dementia and stroke, in the most widely used form of...
Understanding drug-resistant gonorrhoea
Can whole genome sequencing illustrate changes in drug susceptibility of gonorrhoea to antimicrobials used for treatment and so help to...
Cannabidiol significantly reduces seizures in patients with severe form of epilepsy
Credit: NYU Langone Health Cannabidiol (CBD), a compound derived from the cannabis plant that does not produce a "high" and...
Soho’s ‘unique’ sexual character should be preserved, say researchers
The unique, cosmopolitan sexual character of London's Soho should be preserved in the face of gentrification, a new study argues....
Blocking two enzymes could make cancer cells mortal
Before cell division, the long strings of the cell's DNA are wrapped tightly into the structures we know as chromosomes....
Researchers take key step toward growing human organs in laboratory
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers have learned that precursor cells for skeletal muscles actually also give rise to neurons, blood vessels,...
Researchers identify gene that helps prevent brain disease
Credit: Ackerman Lab/UC San Diego Scientists know that faulty proteins can cause harmful deposits or "aggregates" in neurological disorders such...
Our brains are obsessed with being social
Our brains are obsessed with being social even when we are not in social situations. A Dartmouth-led study finds that...
Colon cancer cells use mysterious RNA strands to avoid cell death
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered how unusually long strands of RNA help colon cancer...