Invasive lung cancer cells display symbiosis — Key to metastasis
Credit: Damon Meharg/Winship Cancer Institute When cancer cells split off from a tumor to seed deadly metastases, they are thought ...
An ‘IRBIT’uary before cell death
Credit: RIKEN Billions of cells in our bodies die every day in an important process called apoptosis. Now, researchers at ...
Study ranks safety, effectiveness of cognitive enhancers for…
Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Sept. 29, 2017–A new study ranking the safety and effectiveness of four drugs ...
Research links locus coeruleus activity with hyperarousal in PTSD
Regions of the brain associated with stress and posttraumatic stress disorder. Credit: National Institutes of Health Philadelphia, PA, October 31, ...
Cross-species jumps may play unexpectedly big role in virus evolution
Credit: Geoghegan JL, et al. (2017) On occasion, a virus may jump from one host species to another and adapt ...
Dietary fiber protects against obesity and metabolic syndrome, study…
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA–Consumption of dietary fiber can prevent obesity, metabolic syndrome and adverse changes in the intestine by ...
NSF grant to fund development of a ‘bionic suit’ to help people with…
Credit: Ricardo Carrasco III LOS ANGELES – People with paraplegia due to spinal cord injury may eventually get a chance ...
$3.6 million NIH grant to UA-led international research consortium seeks precision medicine solutions
Credit: UAHS BioCommunications University of Arizona researchers are launching an international consortium to determine if better regulation of a protein ...
A ‘release and kill’ strategy may aid treatment of…
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been called "the perfect pathogen." These bacteria hijack human macrophages, persist inside ...
Link identified between nerve cell proteins and middle-age onset Dementia
Credit: Yusuke Fujioka, Shinsuke Ishigaki, and Gen Sobue Nagoya, Japan – Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a type of dementia ...
Protein Photonics special section in Journal of Biomedical Optics honors Osamu Shimomura
BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA, and CARDIFF, UK — A special section on Protein Photonics in the Journal of Biomedical Optics celebrates ...
Are current efforts to combat terrorism actually increasing the risk…
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 20, 2017–A public health perspective of the rise in terrorism ...
Researchers find evidence of DNA damage in veterans with Gulf War…
Credit: Mitch Mirkin Researchers say they have found the "first direct biological evidence" of damage in veterans with Gulf War ...
TSRI researchers identify gene responsible for mesenchymal stem…
Credit: James McEntee JUPITER, FL – Jan. 22, 2018 – Many doctors, researchers and patients are eager to take advantage ...
NUS researchers pilot ‘Home-but-not Alone’ app to help new…
Credit: National University of Singapore A research team led by Assistant Professor Shefaly Shorey from the Alice Lee Centre for ...
Unexpected activity of 2 enzymes helps explain why liver cancer drugs…
Credit: Gen-Sheng Feng, UC San Diego Health Some cancers are caused by loss of enzymes that should keep cell growth ...
USU professor named fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Credit: USU/Matt Jensen LOGAN, UTAH — Utah State University Professor of Biological Engineering Dr. Ron Sims was elected this week ...
Study led by MIT Portugal faculty and alumni finds how to increase the…
Credit: Sezin Aray A team of researchers from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Coimbra, led by Dr. ...
Researchers reverse high blood pressure in offspring of hypertensive…
Credit: University of Iowa Mothers contribute a lot of defining traits to their offspring, from eye color to toe length. ...
Short intervention boosts safe-sex skills in teen girls
Credit: Matt Shipman A recent study from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ...
