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Molecule may help maintain brain’s synaptic balance
Credit: Timothy Mosca Many neurological diseases are malfunctions of synapses, or the points of contact between neurons that allow senses...
Fighting fire blight and detecting Salmonella
The plant disease fire blight, caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is dreaded by fruit growers. It affects apple and...
Donor microbes persist two years after fecal transplant to treat C. difficile infection
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have made the first direct demonstration that fecal donor...
Cleveland Clinic receives NIH grant to establish consortium for dementia with Lewy Bodies
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $6 million grant to Cleveland Clinic to establish a national research consortium...
The importance of time and space in brain development and disease
Exactly when and where individual neurons develop is as important to our understanding of brain diseases as the underlying genetics,...
Risky bingeing: Women in Appalachian Ohio report higher rates of alcohol misuse
Credit: Michigan Medicine Appalachia -- stretching from the southern tier of New York state to northern Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia...
Researchers discover new structures in bacteria, seek to determine function
Washington, DC - June 13, 2017 - Using high magnification imaging, a team of researchers has identified several never before...
UAF research hub seeks to help Alaska communities stop suicides
University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers have received a $4.25 million federal grant to help Alaska Native communities use the most...
New ‘WHO collaborating centre for physical activity and health’
A lack of physical activity increases the risk for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases as well as diabetes and cancer. In...
Hybrid membrane creates a stir on the global market
Credit: Image: Mezzenga Lab / ETH Zurich The news story made a big splash: in January 2016 ETH researchers Professor...
Concussion effects detailed on microscopic level
COLUMBUS, Ohio - New research has uncovered details about subcellular-level changes in the brain after concussion that could one day...
Discovery of human blood cell destinies revises knowledge of immune cell development
Credit: Department of Biodefense Research, Medical Research Institute,TMDU Tokyo Medical and Dental University(TMDU) researchers identify human stem cell descendants destined...
Where cigarette smoking’s damage is done… down to your DNA
Credit: Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga (UNC Health Care) Scientists have known for decades that smoking cigarettes causes DNA damage, which leads to...
New cancer drug makes commonly prescribed chemo drug more effective when given together
GALVESTON, Texas - Researchers have found a way to increase the effectiveness of a widely used cancer drug while decreasing...
Targeted radionuclide treatment for neuroendocrine tumors improves quality of life
DENVER, Colo. - Malignant neuroendocrine tumors, commonly called NETs, are easy to miss and associated with discouraging survival rates and...
Personalized PRRT improves radiation delivery to neuroendocrine tumors
Credit: Michela Del Prete and colleagues, CHU de Québec - Université Laval Denver, Colo. - Neuroendocrine cancer is exceedingly difficult...
Researchers find cellular sweet spot in skin-cancer battle
A team of researchers has pinpointed a sugar modification in cells that spurs the spread of skin cancer. Its findings,...
How bile duct cancer develops and how it can be prevented
Two different types of cancer can develop in the liver. The more common malignant tumors are hepatocellular carcinomas, which arise...
Mysterious gene transcripts after cancer therapy
Tumor suppressor genes protect cells from malignant transformation. If they are turned off as a result of chemical modifications in...
Study discovers proteins which suppress the growth of breast cancer tumors
Credit: University of Birmingham Researchers at the University of Birmingham have found that a type of protein could hold the...
