Respiratory diseases linked with high blood pressure in lungs
MU researcher examines underlying conditions causing pulmonary hypertensionCredit: MU News Bureau COLUMBIA, Mo. - Pulmonary hypertension is a type of high blood pressure that affects...
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‘The ethics of human genome editing’ special issue published in The CRISPR Journal
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 15, 2019--The Ethics of Human Genome Editing is the subject of intensive discussion and debate...
A secret in saliva: Food and germs helped humans evolve into unique member of great apes
Researchers say human and primate saliva 'could be overlooked hotbeds of evolutionary activity'Credit: Photo: Stefan Ruhl BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Two million years of eating meat...
X marks the spot: recombination in structurally distinct chromosomes
Credit: Hawley Lab KANSAS CITY, MO-Two years ago, scientists from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research reported the 3D structure of the synaptonemal complex in...
Scientists discover skin keeps time independent of the brain
Skin expresses its own photoreceptors using a previously mysterious member of the opsin gene family, neuroposinCredit: Alice Gray Squids, octopuses, cuttlefish, amphibians, and chameleon lizards...
New marker for tumor aggression in neurofibromatosis type 1
New molecular insights could mean more accurate prognoses and better selection of therapiesCredit: Acta Neuropathologica Communications Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center report...
NASA’s Terra satellite catches end of Atlantic Tropical Depression 15
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview Tropical Depression Fifteen or TD15, developed off the west coast of Africa on Oct. 14 by 5 p.m. EDT. The depression...
New international exercise guidelines for cancer survivors
Credit: Martin Dee/University of British Columbia For the rising number of cancer survivors worldwide, there's growing evidence that exercise is an important part of recovery....
First Genome of Spotted Lanternfly Built from a Single Insect
Credit: ARS-USDA HILO, HAWAII, October 16, 2019--Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists, in cooperation with Pacific Biosciences and Penn State University, have published the first genome...
Pioneering cell therapies for non-responders to current immunotherapies
Killer T cells identified in blood that can hone in on mutations uniquely expressed in cancer cells pave the way for an alternative and personalized...
MSU and Spectrum Health researchers team up to find new treatments for ‘orphan diseases’
These understudied disorders afflict up to 25 million AmericansCredit: Spectrum Health Grand Rapids, Mich., October 16, 2019 - The National Institutes of Health has awarded...
UNH researchers find climate change increases risk of mercury contamination
Credit: Credit: Florencia Fahnestock/UNH DURHAM, N.H.--As global temperatures continue to rise, the thawing of permafrost in Arctic areas is being accelerated and mercury that has...
Supporting women in cybersecurity through INI and EWF partnership
INI student Irina Dumitrescu receives full-tuition fellowship to study information security at Carnegie Mellon UniversityCredit: CMU INI Irina Dumitrescu understands the power of women in...
Use of social media is taking place both online and offline
Credit: Lovisa Sköld Social media has changed how people interact. However, social media use is neither static or specifically linked to certain platforms. Emerging technical...
How human brain development diverged from great apes
Cell atlas of great ape forebrain development illuminates dynamic gene-regulatory features that are unique to humansCredit: Enrique Guisado Triay Since humans diverged from a common...
