Vitamin D deficiency linked to greater risk of diabetes
Credit: UC San Diego Health An epidemiological study conducted by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Seoul National University suggests...
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US military looks to develop revolutionary machine-learning tool to address upsurge in suicides
Credit: FSU Photography Services TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- An alarming spike in suicides among U.S. military service members and veterans over the past 15 years is...
Scientists identify 170 potential lung cancer drug targets using unique cellular library
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - April 19, 2018 - After testing more than 200,000 chemical compounds, UT Southwestern's Simmons Cancer Center researchers have...
Clinical trial tests tattoo sensor as needleless glucose monitor for diabetes patients
Credit: UC San Diego Health For Angela Valdez, being diagnosed with diabetes was an awakening. The disorder ran in her family, but she didn't think...
Media registration now open for TCT 2018
WHAT: Media registration is now open online for TCT 2018 (Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics), the annual Scientific Symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF). TCT is...
Variants in non-coding DNA contribute to inherited autism risk
In recent years, researchers have firmly established that gene mutations appearing for the first time, called de novo mutations, contribute to approximately one-third of cases...
Scientists re-create brain neurons to study obesity and personalize treatment
Credit: Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute LOS ANGELES (April 19, 2018) -- Scientists have re-created brain neurons of obese patients using "disease in...
A complete cell atlas and lineage tree of the immortal flatworm
Credit: Credit: Salah Ayoub, BIMSB/MDC and Jordi Solana, BIMSB/MDC, now at Oxford Brookes University From one stem cell to many differentiated body cells: Scientists from...
UCalgary researchers develop a new method to discover drugs to treat epilepsy
Credit: Riley Brandt, University of Calgary For more than a third of children living with epilepsy, the currently approved medications do not stop their seizures....
3-D human ‘mini-brains’ shed new light on genetic underpinnings of major mental illness
Major mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, severe depression and bipolar disorder share a common genetic link. Studies of specific families with a history of these...
Novel antioxidant makes old blood vessels seem young again
Older adults who take a novel antioxidant that specifically targets cellular powerhouses, or mitochondria, see age-related vascular changes reverse by the equivalent of 15 to...
EPFL scientists become part of international effort to create Human Cell Atlas
"The automated single-cell analysis pipeline is a software tool that catalyzes interdisciplinary work as it allows non-expert labs to engage in high-level genomic research that...
Mount Sinai partners with Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to bring big data solution to biology
Uri Laserson, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and collaborators have...
Toward a new water paradigm
Good intentions are not the same as good results - as much as half of all water and sanitations systems in developing countries fail after...
Putting proteins in their proper place
Credit: James Shorter, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Cell PHILADELPHIA - A host of special molecules called nuclear RNA-binding proteins (RBPs), when misplaced...
