UM professor co-authors report on the use of biotechnology in forests
University of Montana Professor Diana Six is one of 12 authors of a new report that addresses the potential for biotechnology to provide solutions for...
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Personality type could shape attitudes toward body weight of others, researchers say
Credit: FSU Photography Services TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Studies show there is a major link between personality traits and personal body image, but the relationship between...
More accurate leukemia diagnosis expected as researchers refine leukemia classification
Research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital means more than 90 percent of the most common cases of childhood cancer can now be classified...
Summit highlights caribbean disaster preparedness and collaboration to strengthen resilience
Caribbean Strong: Building Resilience with Equity "Caribbean Strong: Building Resilience with Equity" will take place on February 27-March 1, 2019, at the Sheraton Hotel and...
Genes reveal clues about people's potential life expectancy
Scientists say they can predict whether a person can expect to live longer or die sooner than average, by looking at their DNA. The team...
Partnership to supercharge vaccine production
Credit: The University of Queensland Vaccines to stop the world's next epidemic could be developed in record time under a $14.7 million partnership using technology...
Antihypertension drug losartan may improve treatment of ovarian cancer
Mass. General study also identifies potential biomarker for chemotherapy response, resistance A new study from a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team has found that...
VTT develops a new sustainable way to turn forestry waste into transport fuels and chemicals
Credit: Photo by: VTT Press release, 15 January 2019 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd has developed a new technique based on gasification, which...
How Candida albicans exploits lack of oxygen to cause disease
Credit: The image was acquired at the Umeå Core Facility for Electron Microscopy (UCEM) journal MBio, a publication of the American Society of Microbiology. "It...
Mathematical model can improve our knowledge on cancer
Credit: Ola Joensen It remains unknown how cells "know" which structures to form in order to repair tissue damage: Multicellular organisms can develop highly complex...
Researchers discovered new immune response regulators
The discovery was published in the new iScience journal for interdisciplinary research by Cell Press. The newly discovered regulatory proteins differ significantly from the regulators...
Scientists identify gene contributing to prostate cancer drug resistance
The GREB1 gene promotes resistance to prostate cancer treatments, making it a potential target for future therapies Researchers have discovered how a gene involved in...
Herpes viruses and tumors evolved to learn how to manipulate the same ancient RNA
Findings could have implications for drugs and insight into diseases like Alzheimer's (New York, NY - January 14, 2019) -- Herpes viral infections use the...
Fever alters immune cells so they can better reach infections
Fever is known to help power up our immune cells, and scientists in Shanghai have new evidence explaining how. They found in mice that fever...
Europe looks to cells for a healthier future
Credit: Agnieszka Rybak Wolf, Lab of Nikolaus Rajewsky at BIMSB / MDC Our body's cells are constantly changing. But which of these changes are healthy...
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