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UMass Amherst study suggests father’s environmental exposure affects sperm epigenetics
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Early results from a larger, ongoing study led by environmental health scientist Richard Pilsner...
Preeclampsia may boost heart disease risk by altering blood vessels
Preeclampsia may permanently change the blood vessels of women who experience the condition during pregnancy, boosting their lifelong risk for...
Household environment — not genetics — shapes salivary microbes
Washington, DC--September 12, 2017--Researchers in the United Kingdom have discovered that the mix of microorganisms that inhabit a person's saliva...
Study: Social media helps students learn scientific argumentation better
LAWRENCE -- Adults often bemoan the amount of time young people spend staring at a screen and browsing social media....
NIH awards $15 million to support development of 3-D human tissue models
More than 60 percent of investigational drugs fail in human clinical trials due to a lack of effectiveness, despite promising...
Carbon cycling in forest soils research presented
Just as individual humans have different microbial communities in their guts, the microbial communities living in soils vary from site...
Forest regeneration experiment of 30 years yields results
Credit: Roseann Densmore A spruce forest regeneration experiment in Interior Alaska that spanned nearly 30 years demonstrates which forest management...
Mitochondrial metastasis suppressor pathway controls tumor cell metabolic reprogramming
PHILADELPHIA -- (Sept. 11, 2017) -- A novel mitochondrial variant of the protein Syntaphilin, or SNPH, which orchestrates the choice...
Osimertinib improves progression-free survival in patients with EGFR mutated lung cancer
LUGANO-MADRID, 9 September, 2017 - Osimertinib improves progression-free survival by 54% compared to standard first line therapy in patients with...
Abemaciclib initial therapy improves outcome in endocrine-sensitive advanced breast cancer
LUGANO-MADRID, 10 September, 2017 - The results of the MONARCH 3 trial, presented at the ESMO 2017 Congress in Madrid...
To improve health monitoring, simply trip the ‘nanoswitch’
Engineered strands of DNA -- nanoscale tools called "nanoswitches" -- could be the key to faster, easier, cheaper and more...
Smoking slowly changes lung cells to increase the odds for cancer
Cigarette smoke causes epigenetic changes in lung cells that prime them to develop cancer, and researchers can now observe how...
‘Epigenetic’ changes from cigarette smoke may be first step in lung cancer development
Credit: Jennifer Fairman Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have preliminary evidence in laboratory-grown, human airway...
Cell surface protein may offer big target in treating high-risk childhood cancers
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Oncology researchers studying high-risk children's cancers have identified a protein that offers a likely target...
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