Secrets from inside the womb that could provide clues to miscarriage
Credit: Dr Eleftheria Pervolaraki The major structures of a baby's heart form in just four days, according to new research ...
Back from the brink
A new collaboration between two UC Santa Barbara labs explores the underlying molecular mechanism of a remarkable process called anastasis, ...
Melanoma cells rewire to resist drug treatment, Penn-Wistar team finds
Credit: Yueyao Zhu and Wei Guo In 2014, new combination therapies to treat patients with metastatic melanoma hit the market, ...
Study examines characteristics of mobile mammography patients
Leesburg, VA, September 25, 2017 - Significant differences were found among women receiving mammography at a cancer center versus those ...
Ancient ink for cancer treatment
For hundreds of years, Chinese calligraphers have used a plant-based ink to create beautiful messages and art. Now, one group ...
Scientists discover rogue messengers that hinder body’s immune response to cancer
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have made a discovery around treatment-resistant breast cancer that may turn the phrase, 'don't shoot ...
Editing genes one by one throughout colorectal cancer cell genome uncovers new drug target
Credit: UC San Diego Health Cancers driven by mutations in the KRAS gene are among the most deadly. For decades, ...
Penn Medicine develops model to predict ER visits in lung cancer patients
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - A pilot program that uses big data to predict which lung cancer patients will require ...
Plant substance inhibits cancer stem cells
The plant Ambrosia arborescens grows at a high elevation in large parts of South America, and is traditionally used as ...
Reducing disparities in cancer precision medicine
New Orleans, LA - The National Cancer Institute has awarded LSU Health New Orleans and Moffitt Comprehensive Cancer Center in ...
Cancer treatment: Bringing patients onboard
Montreal, September 27, 2017 - Mado Desforges is a breast-cancer survivor who specializes in adult education, and lately she's added ...
University of Hawaii awarded nearly $6.3 million to develop trivalent Ebola vaccine
Credit: Amanda Shell, UH-JABSOM University of Hawaii vaccine researcher Axel Lehrer, PhD, has received a nearly $6.3 million grant to ...
Preventing Zika from being transmitted to fetus is goal of new NIH grant to Hawaii
New funding awarded to the University of Hawaii (UH) may lead to solution to a compelling dilemma -- a way ...
Study suggests an answer to young people’s persistent sleep problems
(James Cook University) A collaborative research project involving James Cook University and the University of Queensland indicates high rates of ...
Pioneering bacterial energetics and antimicrobial resisitance group honored
A world-leading team of microbiologists, whose work on a novel new way to fight TB infections shows great promise, has ...
Summer could be one long heatwave if planet hits 2 degrees C
Credit: Anna Jiménez Calaf on Unsplash Summer in some regions of the world will become one long heatwave even if ...
OU research group awarded $10.5 million NIH COBRE grant
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma research team led by Ann West, professor of chemistry and biochemistry in ...
New test rapidly diagnoses Zika
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT researchers have developed a paper-based test that can diagnose Zika infection ...
Mini-protein rapid design method opens way to create a new class of drugs
Credit: Randy Carnell/UW Medicine Scientists have created a high-speed method to generate thousands of different, small, stable proteins from scratch ...
Answer three questions and save half the world’s biodiversity
A growing international movement called "Half Earth" calls for preserving 50 percent of the world's biodiversity. In today's Nature News ...
