Roots of leukemia reveal possibility of predicting people at risk
Scientists have discovered that it is possible to identify people at high risk of developing acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) years before diagnosis. The researchers from...
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Penn study finds mutation driving deadlier brain tumors and potential therapy to stop it
PHILADELPHIA - A poorly understood mutation in the brain cancer glioblastoma (GBM) is now being implicated for the first time as the driver of rare...
Kissing bugs kiss their hiding spots goodbye, thanks to tiny radio transmitters
Credit: Gabriel Hamer, Ph.D., Texas A&M University/Journal of Medical Entomology Annapolis, MD; July 9, 2018--With the continuing advance of technology, radio tracking devices keep getting...
Penn’s Brian Capell, M.D., Ph.D., wins Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Brian C. Capell, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Dermatology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of...
Birds eat 400 to 500 million tonnes of insects annually
Birds around the world eat 400 to 500 million metric tonnes of beetles, flies, ants, moths, aphids, grasshoppers, crickets and other anthropods per year. These...
How does Parkinson’s disease develop? Study raises doubts on theory of Parkinson’s disease
Credit: Biozentrum, University of Basel Parkinson's disease was first described by a British doctor more than 200 years' ago. The exact causes of this neurodegenerative...
Protein function repairing genetic damage in spermatogenesis identified
Credit: IBB-UAB Researchers from the Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology and the Institute for Biotechnology and Biomedicine of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona...
Meningococcal infection: Bacterial aggregates form a thick honey-like liquid that flows through blood vessels
The Inserm team led by Guillaume Duménil at the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with several teams of physicists, has unraveled a key stage in infection...
It takes a village…
Credit: João Martins, iMM A group of researchers led by Edgar Gomes, Group Leader at Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (iMM; Portugal) identifies...
Candida albicans: Progress in the understanding of the mechanisms of genetic diversification in a major fungal pathogen of humans
Candida albicans is one of the most formidable fungal species, causing infection in humans. Investigating the structure and reproduction methods of pathogenic populations can help...
A new study identifies 40 genes related to aggressive behavior in humans and mice
Credit: University of Barcelona The origins of the violent behaviour are multifactorial and respond to the interaction of several factors --biological, cultural, social, etc.-- which...
Insectivorous birds consume annually as much energy as the city of New York
Credit: Photo © Maurice Baker The world's insectivorous birds consume annually 400 to 500 million tons of prey and thereby use as much energy as...
Releasing our inner jellyfish in the fight against infection
Mucus is able to protect us from infection thanks to ancient genes that have been conserved throughout 350 million years of evolution - dating back...
Immunity could be key to addressing coral crisis
Credit: Caroline Palmer/University of Plymouth Coral reefs support a quarter of all marine life, feed hundreds of millions of people and contribute vastly to the...
Penn’s Brian Capell, MD, PhD, wins Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Brian C. Capell, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Dermatology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of...
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