Real-time coverage of inside of the brain made possible
Credit: Kei Zaitsu Nagoya, Japan - Real-time monitoring of the dynamics of endogenous molecules in organisms is an important aspect in the study of diseases....
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Back to (nucleic) bases
Credit: NASA What do astronauts, microbes, and plants all have in common? Each relies on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) - essentially a computer code for living...
$3.6 million boost in search for new malaria drugs
Credit: WEHI-TV, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Australia A $US3.6 million grant from global charity the Wellcome Trust will accelerate the search for much-needed new...
Lymphatic endothelial cells promote melanoma to spread
Credit: Päivi Ojala Lab/University of Helsinki Despite the declining death rates for many individual cancer types, mortality for a few cancers has stabilized or even...
Distress in men following prostate cancer can be reduced
A new web-based support programme will help reduce the psychological stress that impacts men who are recovering from prostate cancer. The new programme, which has...
Researchers call for tougher standards for studies on obesity policies
> When a new park is built, a tax is instituted on fast food or a ban put in place against soft drinks in a...
Organ-chips model and predict thrombotic side effect caused by anti-CD154 antibody hu5c8
BOSTON, Mass., April 10, 2018 - Emulate, Inc. announced today a published study that demonstrates that its Blood Vessel-Chip accurately modeled and predicted thrombosis, or...
Ultra-safe cells resistant to natural viruses announced as first GP-write major project
NEW YORK, May 1, 2018 - The Center for Excellence in Engineering Biology and the leadership of Genome Project-write (GP-write) today announced its first grand-scale...
Patients get faster life-saving treatment in states with policies allowing direct transport to specialized heart attack care hospitals
DALLAS, May 1, 2018 -- People having a heart attack get faster life-saving treatment to restore blood flow to the heart if they live in...
Cognitive scientists define critical period for learning language
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- A great deal of evidence suggests that it is more difficult to learn a new language as an adult than as a...
EEG signals accurately predict autism as early as 3 months of age
Credit: Credit: William Bosl, Ph.D. Autism is challenging to diagnose, especially early in life. A new study in the journal Scientific Reports shows that inexpensive...
Marmosets as the canary in the coal mine for Zika
Credit: Clem Spalding/TX Biomed New research shows small, New World monkeys called marmosets may be an important animal model for emerging viruses with the potential...
New insights into the origins of mutations in cancer
Credit: Arturo Agostino Researchers at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the University of Dundee and the Wellcome Sanger Institute have used human and worm data...
New lab study reveals how breast cancer drug can accelerate cancer cell growth
Credit: Phospho Biomedical Animation The breast cancer drug lapatinib which is designed to shrink tumours can sometimes cause them to grow in the lab, according...
Survey: Medical marijuana could reduce opioid use in older adults
A questionnaire of older men and women suffering from chronic pain who were given medical marijuana found that the drug significantly reduced pain and their...
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