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Drug safety for penguins
Credit: Thinkstock Researchers from the University's Institute of Translational Medicine have determined the most effective drug dose to help penguins...
$3.2 million grant to The Jackson Laboratory for study of new ALS candidate gene
A new five-year federal research grant totaling $3,322,009 to The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) will fund studies of a new mouse...
Cell aging in lung epithelial cells
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Pulmonary fibrosis can possibly be attributed to a kind of...
UM researchers to study genome role in survival of plants, animals
MISSOULA - Understanding how wild animals and plants survive in changing environments is the focus of a new collaboration between...
Materials governed by light
Credit: Rebeca Sola. UPV/EHU Hybrid materials are those that combine components of differing origins (organic and inorganic) in order to...
UM postdoc fellow takes advantage of cold snap to study natural selection in lizards
MISSOULA - Research by University of Montana postdoctoral fellow Shane Campbell-Staton appears in the latest issue of the journal Science....
Molecular biologists discover an active role of membrane lipids in health and disease
Credit: Robert Ernst All living cells that grow and divide have a constant demand for producing new proteins and new...
New model for bimolecular reactions in nanoreactors
Credit: HZB Nanoreactors are tiny systems which facilitate specific chemical reactions, as a catalyst does. Many are found in biological...
Seasonal effects: ‘Winter foals’ are smaller than foals born in summer
Credit: Juliane Kuhl/Vetmeduni Vienna Seasonal and diurnal rhythms determine the life cycle of many animal species. In equids this is...
Prior dengue or yellow fever exposure does not worsen zika infection in monkeys
Rhesus macaques previously infected with dengue or yellow fever viruses appear to be neither more nor less susceptible to severe...
Aggressive breast cancers may contribute to racial survival disparities
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- A higher proportion of aggressive breast cancer subtypes are seen in black women, University of North...
August GIE studies show promising results for patients with endoscopic treatments
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. - Aug. 3, 2017 - The August issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal...
New statistical models key yield powerful insight from health care databases
BALTIMORE, Md. (Aug. 3, 2017) -Recognizing that administrative health care databases can be a valuable, yet challenging, tool in the...
New research shows the power of radiomics to improve precision medicine
TAMPA, Fla. (Aug. 3, 2017) - Precision medicine has become the leading innovation of cancer treatment. Patients are routinely treated...
NCI study shows feasibility of cancer screening protocol for Li-Fraumeni syndrome patients
In a new study from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, researchers found a...
Hereditary cancer syndromes focus of JAMA Oncology collection
JAMA Oncology published a collection of articles on hereditary cancer syndromes, including Li-Fraumeni and Lynch syndromes. The online publication includes...
Physicians evaluate new device to test for cervical cancer
Credit: J. Diedrich, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - When a woman has an abnormal pap smear she usually undergoes colposcopy,...
Breakthrough by scientists finds arthritis drug could treat blood cancer patients
Credit: University of Sheffield University of Sheffield scientists discover drug used for arthritis could be used to treat blood cancer...
Scientists deliver knockout blow to multiple cancers
Targeting healthy cells that have been hijacked by cancer cells could help treat many different types of the disease, according...
Targeted radiotherapy limits side effects of breast cancer treatment
Breast cancer patients who have radiotherapy targeted at the original tumour site experience fewer side effects five years after treatment...
