Why studying sugars matters in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: GlycoNet (February 9, 2018 – EDMONTON) Two GlycoNet Investigators are using technology to better understand how sugars in the ...
Scientists find genetic mutation responsible for rare skin disease in Afrikaners
Credit: Professor Michele Ramsay Scientists have discovered the genetic mutation that causes the rare skin disease, keratolytic winter erythema (KWE), ...
Study: Many parents of children with disabilities don’t make care plans
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Fewer than half of parents of children with intellectual and developmental ...
Study shows liver cells with whole genome duplications protect against cancer
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Feb. 9, 2018 – Researchers at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute (CRI) ...
A common virus may help inform treatment planning for stem cell…
Credit: VCU Massey Cancer Center Most healthy people barely notice infection with the human cytomegalovirus (hCMV), a form of the ...
New hope for stopping an understudied heart disease in its tracks
Credit: UW-Madison photo by Stephanie Precourt. MADISON — The diminutive size of our aortic valve — just shy of a ...
TSRI scientists show deep brain stimulation blocks heroin relapse in rats
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, CA — Feb. 1, 2017 — Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) ...
Sanofi and the Institut Pasteur reward five researchers in the service of human health
Credit: Jeffrey Gordon: (c) James Byard – Washington University Antonio Lanzavecchia: (c) Alessandro Crinari Michel Nussenzweig: (c) Mario Morgado – ...
Levin wins National Medal of Science for unraveling ecological complexity
IMAGE: Simon Levin, Princeton University's George M. Moffett Professor of Biology and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will receive ...
Sleep-inducing herb: The key component identified
Credit: University of Tsukuba Can't sleep? Your sleep problems may be improved if you try an Indian herb, Ashwagandha. Researchers ...
Researchers discuss challenges, successes of HIV cure research in science
Chapel Hill, NC – A better understanding of HIV latency is the key to eradicating the virus researchers at the ...
Rare bactrian deer survives years of turmoil in Afghanistan
AMHERST, Mass. – Forty years of unrest in Afghanistan left wildlife ecologists uncertain whether one of the region's rare sub-species ...
New handheld spectral analyzer uses power of smartphone to detect disease
Credit: Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed technology ...
Ben-Gurion U. researchers pinpoint child-pedestrian behaviors that lead to auto accidents
BEER-SHEVA, Israel…December 21, 2015 – "Look both ways before you cross the street" may be sage advice, but it is ...
Novel technologies reveal key information about depleted east pacific green sea turtles
Credit: Cali Turner Tomaszewicz Populations of green sea turtles living in the eastern region of the Pacific Ocean have rebounded ...
Protein complex prevents genome instability
Credit: Miki Shinohara An international collaboration between Osaka University and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) in Switzerland ...
Powerful new technique can clone thousands of genes at once
Credit: Jennifer E. Fairman/Johns Hopkins University Scientists at Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, the University of Trento in Italy, and Harvard Medical ...
Mini-intestine grown in a test tube for nutritional research
This news release is available in German. Research efforts on the intestine have increased in recent years. Owing to its ...
How yeast cells regulate their fat balance
Credit: GU FRANKFURT. Not only humans but also each of their body cells must watch their fat balance. Fats perform ...
Lessons from Ebola: New approach improves disease outbreak management
Credit: CDC A new approach to information gathering could allow scientists to quickly identify the most effective way to manage ...
