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...
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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...
Study may explain why some triple-negative breast cancers are resistant to chemotherapy
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive form of the disease accounting for 12 to 18 percent of breast cancers....
Landmark study links tumor evolution to prostate cancer severity
Toronto (April 19, 2018) - Findings from Canadian Prostate Cancer Genome Network (CPC-GENE) researchers and their collaborators, published today in Cell, show that the aggressiveness...
Young victims of cyberbullying twice as likely to attempt suicide and self-harm
Credit: Swansea University Children and young people under 25 who are victims of cyberbullying are more than twice as likely to self-harm and enact suicidal...
Smartphone app successfully promotes child car seat safety
A smartphone app designed to promote proper child car seat use among parents proved effective in a study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg...
Spider silk key to new bone-fixing composite
Credit: Image courtesy of Bryant Heimbach/UConn University of Connecticut researchers have created a biodegradable composite made of silk fibers that can be used to repair...
Homemade microscope reveals how a cancer-causing virus clings to our DNA
Credit: M. Mitchell Smith, University of Virginia School of Medicine Using a homemade, high-tech microscope, scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have...
Penn Medicine’s Carl June named one of Time Magazine’s most influential people
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - TIME named University of Pennsylvania cancer and HIV gene therapy pioneer Carl June, MD, to the 2018 TIME 100, its...
Study provides video evidence of parental infanticide in a grassland bird species
Credit: Scott Nelson URBANA, Ill. - Baby birds go missing from their nests all the time. Usually, the disappearances are chalked up to predation, but...
Researchers use imaging technology to screen for colorectal cancer in young adults
BOSTON-- Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the country. While the rates of colorectal cancer among patients older than 50...
Does concussion recovery and symptom severity differ between men and women?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 19, 2018--A new study comparing male and female athletes examined whether there are clear sex-related...
