Chinese Medical Journal Review shines a light on the overlooked virus, hepatitis D
Viral hepatitis is a serious health condition that affects the liver. While hepatitis B and C viruses are commonly targeted by public health measures aiming...
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UC San Diego computer scientist plays major role in $25M Cancer Grand Challenges project
University of California San Diego computer scientist Vineet Bafna is part of a team of world-class researchers that has been awarded a five-year, $25 million...
Bringing daylight back into view: Scientists transplant human photoreceptors to successfully recover daylight perception in mice
Transplantation of photoreceptor cells is a promising intervention that in the future could help recover vision in people with blinding diseases. A team of researchers...
Cancer Grand Challenge: Solving the mystery of DNA rings
In 2014, Professor Anton Henssen discovered something unusual in the cells of pediatric cancer patients: small rings of DNA, which meant that part of the...
Children’s National Hospital Catherine Bollard selected to lead global Cancer Grand Challenges team taking on solid tumors in children
A world-class team of researchers co-led by Catherine Bollard, M.D., M.B.Ch.B., director of the Center for Cancer and Immunology Research at Children’s National Hospital, has...
International team including two Pennington biomedical faculty awarded $25 million for cancer research
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – Pennington Biomedical Research Center faculty members Steven B. Heymsfield, M.D., and Justin C. Brown, Ph.D., are members of a team led...
Nanochannels light the way towards new medicine
To develop new drugs and vaccines, detailed knowledge about nature’s smallest biological building blocks – the biomolecules – is required. Researchers at Chalmers University of...
Shedding light on linguistic diversity and its evolution
Is it true that many languages in the world use words similar to “mama” and “papa” for “mother” and “father”? If a language uses only...
Dead star’s cannibalism of its planetary system is most far-reaching ever witnessed
The violent death throes of a nearby star so thoroughly disrupted its planetary system that the dead star left behind — known as a white...
Miniature frogs set record as the first vertebrates to lose the ability to balance
Amphibians are exceptionaly goo at being small. There are salamanders the size of your thumb nail, pygmy newts that live in moss patches and feast...
Astronomers find evidence for most powerful pulsar in distant galaxy
Astronomers analyzing data from the VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) have discovered one of the youngest known neutron stars -- the superdense remnant of a massive...
In people with HIV, treating precancerous anal lesions cuts risk of anal cancer by more than half
A large clinical trial of people living with HIV has found that treating anal precancerous growths known as high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions, or HSIL, reduces...
Aging-US | DDIT4 identified as candidate target of HDAC4-associated skin aging
BUFFALO, NY- June 15, 2022 – A new research paper was published in Aging (Aging-US) on the cover of Volume 14, Issue 11, entitled, “Histone...
Institutional racism linked to worse asthma outcomes for Black Pittsburghers
PITTSBURGH, June 16, 2022 – Redlining – a discriminatory mortgage lending practice instituted in the 1930s – resulted in health impacts that reverberate today, contributing...
Diffuse optics for medical diagnostics: progress toward standardization
Among the various optics-based tools used in diagnostics, diffuse optics (DO) is rapidly emerging as one of the most attractive technologies. The technique is based...
