Study may explain why once-promising cancer drugs failed
Cells use 'battering ram' to get around cancer drugCredit: Images courtesy of Laura Kelley, Duke University. DURHAM, N.C. -- Nearly two decades after a class...
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Common policy premise on link between soil and crop yield is valid — to a point
Yale research quantifies impacts of soil organic matter In recent years, policymakers across the world have launched initiatives to increase the amount of "soil organic...
Insilico to present its latest research in AI aging clocks at the Longevity Leaders Conference
Credit: Insilico Medicine Thursday, January 24, 2019 - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline utilizing the next generation artificial intelligence,...
New drug targets for BRCA-driven cancer uncovered
Preclinical study yields previously unreported, potent and generalizable hits representing potential drug targets for hereditary breast, ovarian cancer BRCA1 and BRCA2 ("BReast CAncer genes") are...
New insights into why we crave fatty foods when dieting
GALVESTON, Texas - Have you ever wondered why we crave the very foods that we try to avoid when dieting? Or wish there was a...
Dopamine modulates reward experiences elicited by music
A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), reveals a causal link between dopamine and the reward responses in humans...
Copy number variants contribute to risk of 'schizophrenia-like' bipolar disorder subtype
A genome-wide association study in Biological Psychiatry examines the role of copy number variants in subtypes of bipolar disorder Philadelphia, January 24, 2019 A form...
Cancer drug development award given to Geoffrey Shapiro
International Congress on Targeted Anticancer Therapies (TAT) 2019, 25-27 February, Paris, FranceCredit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Lugano, Switzerland, 24 January 2019 - The...
Noisy gene atlas to help reveal how plants 'hedge their bets' in race for survival
As parents of identical twins will tell you, they are never actually identical, even though they have the same genes. This is also true in...
Dopamine modulates the reward experiences elicited by music
A study sheds new light on the role of dopamine in the perception of abstract rewards in humans A new study published in Proceedings of...
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards $3.2M to 9 innovative early career scientists
New York, NY (January 24, 2019) - The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation announced that nine scientists with novel approaches to fighting cancer have been...
New theory unlocks the secret behind protein-membrane interactions
MU researchers gain a greater understanding of cell behavior by developing theoretical model of how proteins work with cell membranes Trillions of cells -- all...
Your personality could put you at greater risk for developing diabetes
New study based on Women's Health Initiative data demonstrates association of personality traits, such as negativity, with greater risk of being diabetic CLEVELAND, Ohio (January...
The seventh volume of Topics In Anti-cancer Research is now available
This book is by Prof. Dr. Atta-ur Rahman, and Dr. Khurshid Zaman, published on: November 30th, 2018. The book series offers readers an insight into...
Why flamingos are cooler than you think (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2019 -- To many people, flamingos are synonymous with Florida, tacky lawn ornaments and cocktails on the...
