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Credit: M. Arndt Nesting in cavities provides birds with some protection from predators -- but it isn't foolproof. A new ...

Seaside sparrows caught between predators and rising seas

Credit: E. Hunter Sea-level rise may be a big problem for saltmarsh birds, but so is predation, and birds sometimes ...

Chronic liver inflammation linked to Western diet

Credit: The American Journal of Pathology Philadelphia, PA, July 12, 2017 - A new study in The American Journal of ...

Programs that teach emotional intelligence in schools have lasting impact

Social and emotional learning programs for youth not only immediately improve mental health, social skills, and learning outcomes but also ...

Benefits of using Droplet Digital PCR for measuring immunotherapy response highlighted in presentations at 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting

HERCULES, Calif. -- July 11, 2017 -- New research demonstrating the clinical potential of Bio-Rad's Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR) technology ...

How cells control nuclear size becomes clearer

Credit: Kazunori Kumi Over a century since scientists first observed that cells and their nucleus grow at a constant ratio ...

Insurance coverage for CT colonography increases likelihood of screening

OAK BROOK, Ill. - People with insurance policies that cover CT colonography for colorectal cancer screening are almost 50 percent ...

The fork in the road to DNA repair

Credit: Osaka University The human body consists of trillions of cells, and within each are billions of DNA molecules. Strict ...

Preclinical results support entinostat’s role in targeting the tumor microenvironment

WALTHAM, Mass., PHILADELPHIA and INDIANAPOLIS, July 11 2017 - Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Syndax," the "Company" or "we") (Nasdaq:SNDX), a clinical ...

UCI study sheds light on regulation of hair growth across the entire body

Irvine, Calif., July 11, 2017 -- To paraphrase the classic poem, no hair is an island entire of itself. Instead, ...

Opioid tapering may improve outcomes for chronic pain sufferers

1. Opioid tapering may improve outcomes for chronic pain sufferers Abstract: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M17-0598 Editorial: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M17-1402 URLs go..

Highlights for the 2017 American Chemical Society fall national meeting

WASHINGTON, July 11, 2017 -- Journalists registering for the American Chemical Society's (ACS') 254th National Meeting & Exposition will have ...

PAINS-killer: UNC study finds serious issues with popular drug screening tool

A widely used screening tool deployed in the early phases of drug discovery to weed out undesirable compounds is wrong ...

Researchers at UIC identify master molecule behind corneal inflammation

One of the symptoms of herpes simplex virus-1 infection of the eye is lingering inflammation of the cornea - the ...

Imaging reveals how well PTSD patients will respond to psychotherapy, researchers find

A pair of studies led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine demonstrates that scientists can predict, with ...

Systems Medicine, a groundbreaking new open access journal launching in 2018

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 11, 2017--Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers announces the launch of ...

Risk-reducing mastectomy questioned for BRCA mutation carriers with prior ovarian cancer

Mutations in the BRCA gene correspond to a higher lifetime risk of developing breast and ovarian cancers, and many women ...

Squeezing innovation out of the NASA Twins study: Pipetting and cell isolation in space

Credit: NASA Just like early explorers, NASA Twins Study investigators are venturing into new territory. Conducting human omics research on ...

Artificial intelligence to uncover human biases

Credit: Insilico Medicine Since 2015 artificially-intelligent systems surpassed human accuracy in many tasks including image recognition, voice recognition, autonomous driving ...

Neural stem cells steered by electric fields in rat brain