New technology for enzyme design
Credit: AK Seibel Enzymes are tools of nature that accelerate almost all biochemical reactions in living cells as biological catalysts. For this reason, enzymes have...
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When push comes to shove: Airway cells propel liver cancer spread to lungs
Credit: Kanazawa University Kanazawa, Japan - Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common form of liver cancer, and the third biggest cause of death from...
Direct visualization of dynamic structures of protein disaggregation molecular machines
Credit: NINS/IMS When proteins are exposed stresses like a heat shock, they lose their native structure and form toxic insoluble aggregations. Bacterial molecular chaperone ClpB...
Dieting associated with risky behaviours in teenage girls
Teenage girls who diet are more likely to engage in other health-compromising behaviours, including smoking, binge drinking, and skipping breakfast, a University of Waterloo study...
Cautious prawns win battle for food
Credit: Callum Duffield / Daniel Maskrey Prawns have personalities - and cautious crustaceans do better in the battle for food, new research shows. Scientists from...
UA study links sleep loss with nighttime snacking, junk food cravings, obesity, diabetes
TUCSON, Ariz. - Nighttime snacking and junk food cravings may contribute to unhealthy eating behaviors and represent a potential link between poor sleep and obesity,...
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center scientists to present at ASCO Annual Meeting
(CHICAGO) -- Scientists from the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC) at Jefferson Health will be presenting research and leading discussions on various topics, including metastatic...
How just drops of viper venom pack a deadly punch
Credit: Leandro Avelar A bite from a lancehead snake can be fatal. Species in the family, found throughout Central and South America, have venom that...
Weight changes associated with reduced bone strength
BOSTON -- Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research, Boston University, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and University of Calgary have found evidence that...
Analysis: Survival benefit for African-Americans with advanced prostate cancer
DURHAM, N.C. -- Contrary to current perceptions, certain African-American men with advanced prostate cancer have as good a chance of survival as white men and...
Black patients show stronger response to hormone therapy for prostate cancer
DURHAM, N.C. -- African-American men with advanced prostate cancer might be more responsive than white men to an anti-androgen drug and steroids, according to a...
SNIS establishes partnership to develop quality measures to improve stroke outcomes
Fairfax, Va. - The Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) has assembled a powerful collaboration with key stakeholder groups to develop quality measures for stroke treatment....
When doctors assume, patients lose
PHILADELPHIA - Collecting sexual orientation and gender identity, or "SO/GI," data has valuable public health benefits and potential clinical benefits for an individual patient, but...
Breakthrough in controlling DNA-based robots
COLUMBUS, Ohio--Researchers have devised a magnetic control system to make tiny DNA-based robots move on demand--and much faster than recently possible. In the journal Nature...
Despite fewer looking for work, gains continue for Americans with disabilities
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ - June 1, 2018. Job gains continued for Americans with disabilities in May, although fewer were looking for work,...
