Meeting the challenge of engaging men in HIV prevention and treatment
NIH commentary describes innovative strategies for reaching menCredit: US Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Marie Montez WHAT: A new commentary from National Institutes...
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Uranium in mine dust could dissolve in human lungs
Credit: Eshani Hettiarachchi New Mexico contains hundreds of historic uranium mines. Although active uranium mining in the state has ceased, rates of cardiovascular and metabolic...
A cancer drug may help treat human papillomavirus infections
Safe and effective therapeutic agents that can treat these cancer-causing viruses are greatly neededCredit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Preclinical experiments by University of Alabama at...
Laws designed to ban or curb drivers' use of cell phones are saving motorcyclists' lives
Credit: Florida Atlantic University Laws to ban or curb drivers' use of cell phones and other handheld devices have greatly reduced the rate of fatalities...
Rotavirus outsources cellular protein CK1α to assemble virus factories
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Rotaviruses, like all viruses, reproduce inside living cells. Making new viruses requires assembling replication factories via a complex, little known...
Medullary bone found in Cretaceous birds
Credit: Jingmai O'Connor A team of scientists led by Jingmai O'Connor from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, reported...
A molecular look at nascent HDL formation
Biophysicists dissect the first step in reverse cholesterol transportCredit: Liu et al. JLR 2018 Oil and water don't mix. But our aqueous blood is full...
UMSOM and GRAS begin second typhoid conjugate vaccine study in africa
Scientists to vaccinate 250 Participants in Burkina Faso with typhoid conjugate vaccineCredit: Matthew Laurens, University of Maryland School of Medicine BALTIMORE, MD and OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA...
Experts in immunotherapy, medical physics, cervical cancer named 2018 ASTRO Gold Medalists
Patricia Eifel, M.D., FASTRO, David Jaffray, Ph.D., and Ralph Weichselbaum, M.D., awarded the highest honor bestowed upon ASTRO membersCredit: ASTRO/Adam Donohue ARLINGTON, Va., December 3,...
A new approach to studying the flu
A clever repurposing of a biological tool gives researchers new clues as to how the flu remains so successfulCredit: Washington University in St. Louis Scientists...
People and plants: Working together for the planet
Plants, People, Planet, a new cross-disciplinary Open Access journal, launches todayCredit: Plants, People, Planet / Tetsuo Wada / Aflo. We rely on plants for food,...
Drug dramatically reduces risk of dangerous blood clots in cancer patients
Strategy could prevent clots in more than 50,000 cancer patients per year in the US and CanadaCredit: The Ottawa Hospital A Canadian clinical trial published...
Montana State-led project to prevent bat-borne diseases wins $10 million grant
Credit: Shirley Plowright BOZEMAN -- In an effort to prevent some of the world's most lethal diseases, an international research team spanning five continents and...
New cancer immunotherapy approach turns immune cells into tiny anti-tumor drug factories
In lab and mouse experiments, UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers developed a method to leverage B cells to manufacture and secrete tumor-suppressing microRNAsCredit:...
FluChip-8G® insight evaluated for enhanced influenza surveillance in Southeast Asia
InDevR collaborating with Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences to test FluChip-8G Insight™Credit: InDevR, Inc. BOULDER (12/4/18) -- InDevR scientists are collaborating with scientists...
