Scientists identify a novel strategy to fight viral infections and cancer in animal model
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - May 30, 2019 - A potential therapeutic strategy to treat viral infection and boost immunity against cancer is reported in the May...
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ASCO: Entrectinib gets edge over crizotinib against ROS1+ lung cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Crizotinib and entrectinib are both active against ROS1+ non-small cell lung cancer. But which is best? The answer seems...
Church, couch, couple: Social psychological connections between people and physical space
Washington, DC - Societies and people have reshaped the world many times over. From building cities and communities that live within them, to the smaller...
LSU health research finds new RX target for common STD
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - Research led by Ashok Aiyar, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology at LSU Health...
Scientists engineer unique ‘glowing’ protein
Credit: Vera Nazarenko et al. Biophysicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have joined forces with colleagues from France and Germany to create...
Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation announces the first award recipients of its Diagnostics Accelerator Program
First award recipients of $50 Million research program -- created to address urgent need for rapid, affordable, and easy-to-use diagnostic tests/biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease and...
Boston College biologist awarded grant by the Knights Templar Eye Foundation
$65,000 award will support research into parasite toxoplasma gondiiCredit: Peter Julian/Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass. (5/30/2019) - Boston College biologist Klemens Engelberg has been awarded...
Fishing among worst jobs for health
People working in the fishing industry have among the poorest health of all workers in England and Wales, new research suggests. University of Exeter researchers...
Insilico Medicine to present at the CogX Festival of AI and Emerging Technology
Credit: Insilico Medicine Thursday, May 30, 2019 - Insilico Medicine, a biotech company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline utilizing the next generation artificial intelligence,...
Unknown mini-proteins in the heart
Credit: Franziska Trnka, MDC A team led by Professor Norbert Hübner's MDC research group has observed the human heart cells' "protein factories" in action, examining...
NICER’s night moves trace the X-ray sky
Credit: NASA/NICER In this image, numerous sweeping arcs seem to congregate at various bright regions. You may wonder: What is being shown? Air traffic routes?...
Scientists demonstrate plant stress memory and adaptation capabilities
Credit: Victor Bulgakov Russian and Taiwanese scientists have discovered a connection between the two signalling systems that help plants survive stress situations, demonstrating that they...
‘Slothbot’ takes a leisurely approach to environmental monitoring
Credit: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech For environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, infrastructure maintenance and certain security applications, slow and energy efficient can be better than fast...
IU cancer researcher, collaborators earn $4.1 million grant from Cancer Moonshot
Credit: Memorial Sloan Kettering INDIANAPOLIS -- A team of researchers from Indiana University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have been awarded a $4.1 million...
Resistance to Fusarium head blight holding in Illinois, study says
Credit: Fred Kolb, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Illinois wheat growers, take heart. A new University of Illinois study shows no evidence of a...
