Whopping big viruses prey on human gut bacteria
Largest phages ever found in humans target bacteria associated with hunter-gatherer diets Viruses plague bacteria just as viruses like influenza plague humans. Some of the...
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UIC gets $12M to continue largest study of Latinos
The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $12 million contract from the National Institutes of Health to continue its role as the Chicago...
Johns Hopkins faculty data highlight how gender disparities in salary add up over a lifetime
When women medical school faculty make a few percent less per year than men, that means many tens of thousands of dollars less in lifetime...
Stand Up To Cancer dream team tackles t-cell lymphoma, focused on CAR-based strategies
Credit: Stand Up To Cancer SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Jan. 28, 2019 - Stand Up To Cancer announced here today the creation of an $8...
Bad brakes
Researchers identify faulty 'brake' that interferes with heart muscle's ability to contract and relax Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common genetic disease of the...
Myocarditis: Overshooting the mark
Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have shown that a protein called midkine, a member of the class of signaling molecules known as cytokines, is...
Making 'sense' of the 'cart before the horse' in mammalian cells.
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A fusion gene is a new gene made by joining parts of two different genes. The current thought is that...
For endangered lemurs, internet fame has a dark side
That cute lemur selfie you shared may be fueling the illegal pet trade in MadagascarCredit: Photo courtesy of Pet Lemur Survey DURHAM, N.C. -- Cats...
Brain biomarkers could help identify those at risk of severe PTSD
NIH-funded study links brain activity related to associative learning with PTSD symptom severity A study has shed light on the neurocomputational contributions to the development...
GW cancer researchers investigate nanoimmunotherapies for cancer
Rohan Fernandes, PhD, is leading a team in investigating the efficacy of a nanoimmunotherapy ensemble in treating cancer WASHINGTON (Jan. 28, 2018) -- A team...
ERC consolidator grant for Pol Besenius for his development of synthetic vaccines
SUPRAVACC project is based on a modular concept using individual molecular building blocks for the preparation of fully synthetic vaccinesCredit: photo/©: Eric Lichtenscheidt Professor Pol...
Penn physicists find the limits of multitasking in biological networks
Many complex systems in biology can be conceptualized as networks. This perspective helps researchers understand how biological systems work on a fundamental level, and can...
Targeted antisense oligonucleotide drug tested in humans
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, January 28, 2019--A first-in-human study with a new class of antisense oligonucleotide therapeutics showed the ability...
Drug compound could be next-generation treatment for aggressive form of leukemia
Compounds show promise in treating acute myeloid leukemiaCredit: (Purdue Research Foundation image/Hope Sale) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers have been struggling for years to find...
Cancer: A mutation that breaks gene interplay in 3D
Credit: Giovanni Ciriello (UNIL) Inside the cell, DNA is tightly wrapped around proteins and packed in a complex, 3D structure that we call "chromatin". Chromatin...
