New statistical models key yield powerful insight from health care databases
BALTIMORE, Md. (Aug. 3, 2017) -Recognizing that administrative health care databases can be a valuable, yet challenging, tool in the ...
New research shows the power of radiomics to improve precision medicine
TAMPA, Fla. (Aug. 3, 2017) - Precision medicine has become the leading innovation of cancer treatment. Patients are routinely treated ...
NCI study shows feasibility of cancer screening protocol for Li-Fraumeni syndrome patients
In a new study from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, researchers found a ...
Hereditary cancer syndromes focus of JAMA Oncology collection
JAMA Oncology published a collection of articles on hereditary cancer syndromes, including Li-Fraumeni and Lynch syndromes. The online publication includes ...
Physicians evaluate new device to test for cervical cancer
Credit: J. Diedrich, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - When a woman has an abnormal pap smear she usually undergoes colposcopy, ...
Breakthrough by scientists finds arthritis drug could treat blood cancer patients
Credit: University of Sheffield University of Sheffield scientists discover drug used for arthritis could be used to treat blood cancer ...
Scientists deliver knockout blow to multiple cancers
Targeting healthy cells that have been hijacked by cancer cells could help treat many different types of the disease, according ...
Targeted radiotherapy limits side effects of breast cancer treatment
Breast cancer patients who have radiotherapy targeted at the original tumour site experience fewer side effects five years after treatment ...
CAREFOR calls on EU to safeguard independent academic research
Credit: European Society for Medical Oncology Lugano/Brussels, Aug. 3, 2017. Three leading European organisations in the fight against cancer have ...
Skin-ditching gecko inexplicably leaves body armor behind when threatened
Credit: Image by Paluh et al. in the African Journal of Herpetology GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- When trouble looms, the fish-scale ...
Plant pathology professors receive $1.2 million to study, catalog Fusarium fungi
David Geiser and Seogchan Kang, professors of plant pathology and environmental biology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, received ...
Bioprinted veins reveal new drug diffusion details
WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 3, 2017 -- Artificially constructed human tissues and organs have been developed with a number of different ...
The biology of color
Credit: Tim Caro/UC Davis Scientists are on a threshold of a new era of color science due largely to an ...
UVA researchers identify neurons that control brain’s body clock
Neurons in the brain that produce the pleasure-signaling neurotransmitter dopamine also directly control the brain's circadian center, or "body clock" ...
Of mice and cheeseburgers: Experimental drug reverses obesity-related liver disease
Credit: University of Rochester Medical Center A drug developed at the University of Rochester Medical Center protected mice from one ...
Researchers want to know how early life affects the adult brain
Credit: G. Goodhill/Queensland Brain Institute It's said to be a "lightbulb" moment - when an idea pops into your head. ...
Mysterious children’s neurological disease is traced to a single error in one gene
Credit: (Photo credit: Hebrew University) In a new study published today in The American Journal of Human Genetics, a multinational ...
NIH scientists track Zika virus transmission in mice
National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists have developed a mouse model to study Zika virus transmitted sexually from males to ...
The Oriental eye fly that transmits conjunctivitis newly recorded in China
Credit: Dr. Xiaoyan Liu The conjunctivitis-transmitting Oriental eye fly (Siphunculina funicola) has been recorded for the first time in China. ...
Fast, noninvasive technique for probing cells may reveal disease
The stiffness or elasticity of a cell can reveal much about whether the cell is healthy or diseased. Cancer cells, ...
