Gut microbiota of larvae has an impact on mosquito’s ability to transmit human pathogens
Credit: © Institut Pasteur Mosquitoes are holometabolous insects (i.e. organisms that go through a complete metamorphosis). As such, they occupy ...
A protein that extends life of yeast cells
Credit: (Image: University of Basel/SNI/Nano Imaging Lab) To understand and control aging is the aspiration of many scientists. Researchers at ...
Paving the way towards ‘designer organelles’
Research published today, by an inter-disciplinary group from the University of Leeds, outlines their work in creating an alternative pathway ...
Blindness study shows how gene causes middle-age sight loss
Blindness study shows how gene causes middle-age sight loss. Chemical changes in the eye that can lead to blindness have ...
The bacteria responsible for legionellosis modulates the host cell metabolism to its advantage
Credit: © Institut Pasteur. Intracellular pathogens adopt various strategies to circumvent the defences of the host cell and to proliferate ...
Bone marrow models to study blood and musculoskeletal disorders
(Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) ) For her research on development of hematological and musculoskeletal disorders, Dr. Cornelia Lee-Thedieck, scientist ...
A ‘virtual heart’ to simulate arrhythmia
Credit: MIPT Press Office A group of researchers from MIPT and Ghent University (Belgium) has developed the first realistic model ...
Parkinson’s severity assessed through drawing
Credit: Courtesy of Dinesh Kumar and Ms. Poonam Zham of the 'Affordable diagnostics' group in RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Researchers ...
Certara paper shows viral kinetic modeling grows flu knowledge, advances drug development
Certara®, the global leader in model-informed drug development and regulatory science, today announced that its comprehensive influenza viral kinetic modeling ...
New microscopy method for quick and reliable 3-D imaging of curvilinear nanostructures
Credit: Cécile Hébert/Emad Oveisi/EPFL Physical and biological sciences increasingly require the ability to observe nano-sized objects. This can be accomplished ...
UCLA biologists slow aging, extend lifespan of fruit flies
Credit: Nature Communications/Anil Rana UCLA biologists have developed an intervention that serves as a cellular time machine -- turning back ...
ERC Starting Grants: 605 million to 406 top researchers across Europe
(European Research Council) The European Research Council has announced today the awarding of its Starting Grants to 406 early-career researchers ...
Will mallards hybridize their cousins out of existence?
Credit: Gary Kramer/USFWS (public domain) Mallards -- the familiar green-headed ducks of city parks -- are one of a group ...
Investigating the mechanisms of metastasis
Credit: Children's Hospital Los Angeles Cancer metastasis - the spread of disease from the original site to a distant organ ...
FDG-PET/CT predicts melanoma patients’ response to immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy
Credit: SY Cho, EJ Lipson, H Im, et al., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD RESTON, Va. - ...
Outreach interventions improve colorectal cancer screening
Outreach and notification to patients and physicians improved colorectal cancer (CRC) screening among patients who were not up-to-date or nonadherent ...
How to implement Advance Care Planning for patients
Credit: Lancaster University Emeritus Professor Sheila Payne from the International Observatory on End of Life Care at Lancaster University helped ...
MIRO trial: 3-year outcomes favor laparoscopic surgery for esophageal cancer
LUGANO-MADRID, 05 September, 2017 - Patients requiring surgery for oesophageal cancer fare better after undergoing a hybrid minimally invasive oesophagectomy ...
Recurrence of prostate cancer could be reduced thanks to exciting new discovery
Ground breaking research could reduce the recurrence of prostate cancer in males, a new study in the journal Nature Communications ...
Zika virus could be used to treat brain cancer patients, study suggests
Credit: Zhu et al., 2017 Recent outbreaks of Zika virus have revealed that the virus causes brain defects in unborn ...
