Researchers and farmers collaborate to prevent E. coli
Credit: Photo by Rebekah Mosci, a co-author of the study. EAST LANSING, Mich. — A collaborative Michigan State University study ...
Researchers begin promising malaria vaccine trial in Burkina Faso
Malaria is one of the world’s deadliest diseases: it infects hundreds of millions of people every year, and kills about ...
BU researcher awarded grant to better understand breast cancer
(Boston)– Why do African-American women die at a higher rate and experience more aggressive breast tumors than white women? Researchers ...
Army researchers team with Sanofi Pasteur to co-develop a Zika virus vaccine
SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) announces a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement for ...
Study sheds light on role of mutations in metastasized cancer
Approximately 95 percent of cancer mortality is caused by metastasis. This fact is what motivates many cancer researchers to focus ...
New microfluidic device offers means for studying electric field cancer therapy
Researchers at MIT’s research center in Singapore have developed a new microfluidic device that tests the effects of electric fields ...
Why do aged muscles heal slowly?
Baltimore, MD– As we age, the function and regenerative abilities of skeletal muscles deteriorate, which means it is difficult for ...
Pasta is not fattening, quite the opposite
In recent years pasta gained a bad reputation: it will fatten you. This led lots of people to limit its ...
New detection method paves the way for 100 percent detection of esophageal cancer
Recognizing the early stages of esophageal cancer is difficult because it can easily be missed. TU Eindhoven has therefore been ...
Engineers design programmable RNA vaccines
“This nanoformulation approach allows us to make vaccines against new diseases in only seven days, allowing the potential to deal ...
Seeing RNA at the nanoscale
Cells contain thousands of messenger RNA molecules, which carry copies of DNA’s genetic instructions to the rest of the cell. ...
Anti-anxiety medication limits empathetic behavior in rats
Rats given midazolam, an anti-anxiety medication, were less likely to free trapped companions because the drug lessened their empathy, according ...
Four newly-identified genes could improve rice
A Japanese research team have applied a method used in human genetic analysis to rice and rapidly discovered four new ...
3-D printing produces cartilage from strands of bioink
Strands of cow cartilage substitute for ink in a 3D bioprinting process that may one day create cartilage patches for ...
Rice scientists streamline synthesis of potential cancer drug
HOUSTON – (June 23, 2016) – A team led by Rice University scientists has improved the production of a potent ...
Kwanghun Chung receives McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award
Kwanghun (KC) Chung, investigator of neuroscience at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, core faculty of the Institute for ...
Driverless cars: Who gets protected?
Driverless cars pose a quandary when it comes to safety. These autonomous vehicles are programmed with a set of safety ...
New cancer immunotherapy drugs linked to arthritis in some patients
Case reports on 13 cancer patients suggest that a small number of cancer patients taking the immunotherapy drugs ipilimumab and ...
A strategy for “convergence” research to transform biomedicine
What if lost limbs could be regrown? Cancers detected early with blood or urine tests, instead of invasive biopsies? Drugs ...
Drug monitoring programs reduce opioid deaths: Study
The implementation of state prescription drug monitoring programs was associated with the prevention of approximately one opioid-related overdose death every ...
