Southern Europeans, non-Europeans less likely to have matched stem cell donors
Alternative donor transplants are needed for these patients (WASHINGTON, March 27, 2019) -- Although the pool of registered bone marrow donors has increased in recent...
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New potential therapeutic target for pancreatic cancer discovered
MD Anderson study demonstrates role of protein syndecan-1 in regulation of KRAS geneCredit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Cancer cells demand enormous amounts of molecular "food"...
Low-dose radiation therapy improves delivery of therapeutic nanoparticles to brain tumors
A new study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators finds that radiation therapy may increase the uptake of therapeutic nanoparticles by glioblastomas, raising the...
Study of female weightlifters crushes stereotype
In the first-ever study of its kind, San Francisco State University and California State University, Fullerton researchers found that elite women weightlifters have the same...
Researchers advance effort to manage parasitic roundworms
Patent-pending discoveryCredit: UNH DURHAM, N.H.--Roundworms that feed on plants cause approximately $100 billion in annual global crop damage. Now researchers at the University of New...
Kids store 1.5 megabytes of information to master their native language
New research suggests language acquisition between birth and 18 is a remarkable feat of cognition rather than something humans are just hardwired to do Learning...
Gut microbiome research takes center stage in APS-ASPET Presidential Symposium series
Rockville, Md. (March 27, 2019)--Leading physiology and pharmacology researchers will speak in a four-part series centered on the gut microbiome--the microbe population living in the...
Traveling-wave tubes: The unsung heroes of space exploration
An invention from the 1950s is still being used today What do televisions and space exploration have in common? No, we're not talking about a...
A pan-European expert forum to tackle the complexity of big data in personalized medicine
On January 1st 2019 the Horizon2020 Coordinating and Support Action "EU-STANDS4PM - A European standardization framework for data integration and data-driven in silico models for...
UTEK joins co-creation laboratory as 5TONIC takes to the ocean
New project tests 5G radio waves for maritime applicationsCredit: © IMDEA Networks Institute UTEK, a Spanish start-up company backed by the European Space Agency's business...
GW Cancer receives $4 million award for technical assistance to comprehensive cancer control
Principal Investigator Mandi Pratt-Chapman, MA has been awarded a $4.125 million cooperative agreement to continue work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
Retinal prion disease study redefines role for brain cells
Microglia may benefit, not damage, photoreceptorsCredit: James. F. Striebel/NIAID WHAT: National Institutes of Health scientists studying the progression of inherited and infectious eye diseases that...
Newly discovered role for climbing fibers: Conveying a sensory snapshot to the cerebellum
Researchers at Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have revealed a special input pathway that holds the key to coding sensory information in the CerebellumCredit:...
Laura Mosqueda, MD, expert on preventing elder abuse, to deliver #AGS19 Henderson Lecture
Credit: (C) 2019, American Geriatrics Society The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) today announced that Laura Mosqueda, MD, AGSF, Dean of the Keck School of Medicine...
With expertise in geriatrics and population health, Dr. Amy Kind to deliver #AGS19 Yoshikawa Lecture
Credit: (C) 2019, American Geriatrics Society The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and AGS Health in Aging Foundation today announced that Amy Kind, MD, PhD, one...
