New study tracks perils of water polo head injuries
Certain players endure far more trauma, UCI researchers say Irvine, Calif., May 2, 2019 - Water polo athletes take note: A new study by University...
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Topical cream found as less-toxic therapy to treat cutaneous leishmaniasis
Credit: Pascale, et al. (2019) Paromomysin-based topical treatments were shown to be effective in curing cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), according to a randomized, double blind study...
Fifteen years of mosquito data implicate species most likely to transmit West Nile virus in Iowa
Credit: Iowa State University News Service AMES, Iowa - A recently published study from Iowa State University medical entomologists found transmission of West Nile virus...
Pathogens find safe harbor deep in the gastric glands
Credit: Connie Fung Scientists have long tried to understand how pathogenic bacteria like Helicobacter pylori, a risk factor for stomach ulcers and cancer, survive in...
Ragon Institute study identifies viral peptides critical to natural HIV control
T-cell targeting of essential amino acids may underlie spontaneous HIV suppression, define path to a vaccine Investigators at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and...
NASA goes infrared on powerful Tropical Cyclone Fani
Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson NASA's Aqua satellite focused an infrared eye on a very powerful Tropical Cyclone Fani as it approached landfall in northeastern India....
Synthetic biology used to target cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue, study reports
Synthetic proteins engineered to recognize overly active biological pathways can kill cancer cells while sparing their healthy peers, according to a study by researchers at...
Food dye, the secret ingredient for 3D printing biocompatible hydrogels with life-like vasculature
Yellow food dye #5 - a common food additive - is revealed as the secret ingredient in 3D printing biomaterials with complex physically entangled networks,...
New cancer therapy target found in mitochondria for potential treatment of blood cancers
Study shows how drugs ONC201 and ONC212 cause cancer cell deathCredit: MD Anderson Cancer Center A study at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer...
Connecting neurons in the brain
The brain consists of a large collection of interconnected neurons. How complex patterns of neuronal cells grow into functioning circuits during development has fascinated researchers...
Opportunistic cancer cells ‘slip through the gaps’ to spread through blood vessels
Cancer cells may rely on opportunism, as well as chemical signalling, to spread through the body, according to new findings by mathematicians at the University...
Reservoir bugs: Stanford-led study shows why stomach pathogen is so tough to eradicate
The stomach-dwelling bacteria Helicobacter pylori survives in the stomach -- a hellish, churning vat of hydrochloric acid -- by holing up inside that organ's pitlike...
New tools could provide ironclad certainty that computer bugs are a thing of the past
Stevens research offers 100 percent guarantee that software is free from glitches It's bad enough losing an hour's work when your computer crashes - but...
Mutational intensity influences a tumor’s response to PD-1 immunotherapy
Following FDA approval last year of PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitors for tumors with mismatch repair deficiency, a new study reveals more about why responses of...
Putting vision models to the test
Study shows that artificial neural networks can be used to drive brain activity CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT neuroscientists have performed the most rigorous testing yet...
