Genetic mutations predict patient response to immunotherapy
Results of a new clinical study establish particular genetic defects in tumors as clinical indicators for successful response to a ...
Researchers uncover new instruction manual to repair broken DNA
Credit: Georgia Tech Drexel University and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have discovered how the Rad52 protein is a crucial ...
Breast cancer risk reduced in women with diabetes who take low-dose aspirin
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 8, 2017--A new study of nearly 149,000 women with diabetes ...
Kamran Mirza, M.D., Ph.D., named to American Society for Clinical Pathology’s ’40 Under 40′
Credit: Loyola Medicine MAYWOOD, IL - Loyola Medicine pathologist Kamran Mirza, MD, PhD, FASCP, has been named to the American ...
Distinct wiring mode found in chandelier cells
Credit: (c) Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience A basic tenet of neural development is that young neurons make far ...
World’s first success in asymmetric borylation of ketones
Credit: Ito H., et al., Angewandte Chemie International Edition, May 3, 2017. A team of Hokkaido University researchers has developed ...
Heroin’s use rising, costing society more than $51 billion
Heroin use in the United States was estimated to cost society more than $51 billion in 2015, according to new ...
California Academy of Sciences advancing hope for reefs in the Philippines
Credit: Terry Gosliner © California Academy of Sciences San Francisco (June 8, 2017)-- The California Academy of Sciences' Hope for ...
Bee health is topic of new pollen research at UMass Amherst
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Biology professor Lynn Adler at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an expert in pollination ...
Lost ecosystem found buried in mud of southern California coastal waters
Paleontologists investigating the sea bed off the coast of southern California have discovered a lost ecosystem that for thousands of ...
Researchers identify how class of drugs blocks Hepatitis C virus replication
Credit: David Kinton, UNC School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC - Globally, an estimated 71 million people are living with ...
New international guidelines issued on dementia with Lewy bodies
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Susan Williams, wife of the late actor and comedian Robin Williams, called Lewy body disease "the terrorist ...
Balance, gait negatively impacted after chemotherapy treatment
COLUMBUS - A single chemotherapy treatment can result in a significant negative impact on walking gait and balance, putting patients ...
Waters and Andrew Alliance sign co-marketing agreement
Credit: Andrew Alliance Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) and Andrew Alliance have signed an agreement that will bring drug development scientists an ...
Obesity increases risk of complications after shoulder joint replacement surgery
June 8, 2017 - For patients undergoing shoulder joint replacement surgery (arthroplasty), higher body mass index is linked to increased ...
The road not taken: Do stress-specific mutations lead down different evolutionary paths?
Credit: Maharajan and Ferenci graphic in PLOS Biology Starvation for essential elements determines the pattern of genetic variation. Evolution is ...
Research targets PFOA threat to drinking water
A highly toxic water pollutant, known as perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), last year caused a number of U.S. communities to close ...
How the brain recognizes what the eye sees
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA -- (June 8, 2017) If you think self-driving cars can't get here soon enough, you're ...
Study finds failure to sustain reductions in carcinogens in cigarettes
Waterloo, Ontario: Tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) are potent carcinogens formed predominantly during the cigarette manufacturing process. Despite initial success lowering TSNA ...
Simple tasks don’t test brain’s true complexity
Credit: Xaq Pitkow/Dora Angelaki The human brain naturally makes its best guess when making a decision, and studying those guesses ...
