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Helpers for energy acquisition from plants

Credit: © Photo: Barbara Frommann / University of Bonn Research into plant cells is far from complete. Scientists under the biochemist Professor Peter Dörmann at...

Deadly scrub typhus bacteria confirmed in South America

Scrub typhus, a disease transmitted through “chiggers” that kills at least 140,000 people a year in the Asia-Pacific region, may now be endemic in a...

Cord blood transplant associated with high survival rate in high-risk leukemia patients

SEATTLE – Sept. 7, 2016 – Umbilical cord blood transplants may have advantages beyond offering an alternative stem cell source for leukemia patients without a...

Physical activity may offset some of alcohol’s lethal harms

An international research collaboration, led by University of Sydney, has found that exercising at even basic recommended weekly physical activity levels (at least 150 minutes...

Prisons could unlock hep C-free future

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) | by AJC1(Thursday, 8 September 2016: Oslo) Prisons provide one of the most significant opportunities to drive down the prevalence of...

Dr. Richard Rosenfeld recommends shared decision-making in treating adult sinusitis

SUNY Downstate Medical Center’s Distinguished Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology Richard M. Rosenfeld, MDBrooklyn, NY – In an article in the New England Journal of...

Stealth pig cells may hold the key to treating diabetes in humans

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers are exploring ways to wrap pig tissue with a protective coating to ultimately fight diabetes in...

Medicare’s new way of paying hospitals could cause a bundle of problems for some

Credits: WikimediaANN ARBOR, Mich. — Hospitals that take care of the oldest, sickest and most complicated patients could suffer financially under the Medicare system’s new...

The whole of epigenetic regulation may be greater than the sum of its parts

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Sept. 7, 2016) — Scientists may be closer to answering a long-standing question in biology — how do the components of cells’...

Mango and the microbiota: Potential role of this superfruit in maintaining gut health

Orlando, Florida (September 7, 2016) – Research published in the Journal of Nutrition has for the first time documented the potential effects of mango consumption...

Computer simulation reveals p53 weak spots and opens new avenues against cancer

Cartoon representation of a complex between DNA and the protein p53 (described in Cho et al. Science 265 pp. 346, 1994 )p53 has long been...

Factor isolated from babies cord blood could treat harmful inflammation, sepsis

Christian Con Yost, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)A factor found...

A tail of gene expression

Imagine trying to fly a kite without a tail. It swoops and loops and wiggles and finally crashes down into the ground. A kite without...

Scientists reveal insights into treatment resistance of metastastic breast cancer research