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SAN FRANCISCO, CA—January 26, 2022—Katerina Akassoglou, PhD, senior investigator at Gladstone Institutes, has been elected into the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),...

Louisville scientist receives $6.7 million to learn how metals cause lung cancer

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – For nearly three decades, John Pierce Wise Sr. has investigated the connection between exposure to metals and cancer, working both in the...

New brain cancer guidelines to improve care, patient survival

New guidelines for treating cancers that have spread to the brain are poised to improve care for patients and help many live longer, better lives.Credit:...

Zoologist solves the 100-year-old mystery of the floating phantom midge

VANCOUVER—In spring 2018, Dr. Philip Matthews spent a typical afternoon capturing dragonflies in the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) experimental ponds. Little did the zoologist...

New research strengthens link between glaciers and Earth’s ‘Great Unconformity’

HANOVER, N.H. – January 25, 2022 – New research provides further evidence that rocks representing up to a billion years of geological time were carved...

Scientists discover new avian immunological pathway

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A research team led by a biomedical scientist at the University of California, Riverside, has discovered a new immune pathway in chickens...

Hungry yeast are tiny, living thermometers

Link to full release:Credit: Luther Davis/Alexey Merz/University of Washington Link to full release: https://www.washington.edu/news/2022/01/25/yeast-phase-separation/ FROM: James Urton University of Washington 206-543-2580 [email protected] (NOTE: researcher contact...

Fat injections could treat common cause of foot pain

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 25, 2021 – A novel technique that transplants a patient’s own fat into the sole of their foot could offer relief to those...

Retina layers segmented by deep learning

NIH study classifies vision loss and retinal changes in Stargardt disease

National Eye Institute researchers developed and validated an artificial-intelligence-based method to evaluate patients with Stargardt, an eye disease that can lead to childhood vision loss....

Using the eye as a window into heart disease

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS PRESS RELEASE Credit: University of Leeds. UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS PRESS RELEASE Under embargo until 16.00 (UK time)/11.00 (US Eastern time) on Tuesday, 25 January ...

Exercise, age, and carotid geometry all have effects on disturbed flows

Simulation models exercise, age effects on plaque formation in arteries

WASHINGTON, January 25, 2022 -- Plaque formation in the arteries carrying blood to the head and neck is a serious medical problem, potentially leading to...

‘Lefty’ tightens control of embryonic development

HOUSTON – (Jan. 25, 2021) – A protein known as Lefty pumps the brakes as human embryos begin to differentiate into the bones, soft tissues and organs...

An unexpected attraction of nucleic acids and fat

Lipids and RNA are two of the essential building blocks of cells. Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a versatile molecule. On the one hand, like DNA,...

Alzheimer’s disease: an alternative hypothesis based on synaptic alterations

New research published today in Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association could explain why neurons fail to communicate effectively in people with...

Sediments a likely culprit in spread of deadly disease on Florida coral reefs, study finds