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...
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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...
Ann McKee named to TIME’S Annual List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World
(Boston) -TIME magazine has named Ann McKee, MD, Chief of Neuropathology, VA Boston Healthcare System, and Director of the BU CTE Center, to the 2018...
IU psychologist awarded $1.7 million to study early child language learning
Credit: Photo by Chris Meyer, IU Communications. An Indiana University psychologist has been awarded $1.7 million from the National Institutes of Health to better understand...
Pregnant moms and their offspring should limit added sugars in their diets to protect childhood cognition
Ann Arbor, April 19, 2018 - A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has determined that poorer childhood cognition occurred, particularly...
UPV/EHU researchers account for the complex symptoms of Angelman syndrome
The group, led by the Ikerbasque professor Ugo Mayor of the UPV/EHU's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has just published in the journal Human...
GLUT5 fluorescent probe fingerprints cancer cells
Credit: Tanasova, Rao/Michigan Tech Determining the presence of cancer, as well as its type and malignancy, is a stressful process for patients that can take...
Drug combination targeting HSP90 and BRAF is safe and effective in advanced melanoma
TAMPA, Fla. - Patients with advanced or metastatic melanoma have been able to live longer cancer-free lives because of several new therapies approved over the...
Blowfly uses saliva to keep cool
On warm days the Oriental latrine blowfly (Chrysomya megacephala) keeps cool by moving a droplet of saliva repeatedly in and out of its buccal apparatus,...
Chip-based blood test for multiple myeloma could make bone biopsies a relic of the past
Credit: University of Kansas | KU News Service LAWRENCE -- The diagnosis and treatment of multiple myeloma, a cancer affecting plasma cells, traditionally forces patients...
More students report carrying guns in Chicago than New York or Los Angeles
Credit: Northwestern Medicine CHICAGO --- More students report carrying guns in Chicago than in New York or Los Angeles, a new Northwestern Medicine study shows....
Novel discoveries on aggressive NK-cell leukemia pave the way for new treatments
International research consortium led by researchers from the University of Helsinki, Finland, discovered new information related to a rare form of leukemia called aggressive NK-cell...
