Lupus Research Alliance announces research grants to speed new lupus treatment
Can "borrowed" drugs for treating other diseases protect the skin in patients with lupus? Can researchers coax the body to weed out harmful immune cells...
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HKUST scientists develop novel method to monitor molecular aggregation
Credit: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Chiral molecules are defined as molecules that are non-superimposable on their mirror image, much like that...
New policy design needed to tackle global environmental threat, according to report
A pioneering new report has devised a seven-point plan to help policymakers devise new, coherent and collaborative strategies to tackle the greatest global environmental threats....
New analytic model to better identify patients likely to develop PTSD
Credit: Courtesy of NYU Langone Health New findings from an international research team led by psychiatrists at NYU School of Medicine show that a newly-developed...
Skull scans tell tale of how world's first dogs caught their prey
Credit: Julia Schwab Analysis of the skulls of lions, wolves and hyenas has helped scientists uncover how prehistoric dogs hunted 40 million years ago. A...
Real-time detection of cholesterol in liver-on-chip cultures of human liver cells
Credit: Author In a paper to be published in the September/December 2019 issue of TECHNOLOGY, a team of researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering...
The algae's third eye
Credit: (Image: Eva Laura von der Heyde) Just like land plants, algae use sunlight as an energy source. Many green algae actively move in the...
Parasites from patients with cerebral malaria stick preferentially in their brains
A team at LSTM with their collaborators in Malawi and Denmark have provided, for the first time, evidence which links the ability of red blood...
Being HIV positive and staying on antiretroviral therapy in Africa: A systematic review
An international team of researchers have carried out a review of the evidence examining what influences people who are HIV positive to go to health...
VISTA checkpoint implicated in pancreatic cancer immunotherapy resistance
Comparison of pancreatic and melanoma tumors highlights importance of stroma HOUSTON - Researchers have identified a new potential immunotherapy target in pancreatic cancer, which so...
Powerful microscope captures first image of nanoscaffold that promotes cell movement
Discovery could yield insights into cancer metastasis, wound healing, organ development and more cell-motility-related conditionsCredit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) LA JOLLA, CALIF....
New study provides clinicians with better analysis of psychological flexibility
Psychological flexibility -- the bedrock of a much-used psychological therapy The study is the first to identify distinct subgroups of psychological flexibility Psychological flexibility is...
Reviewing advanced applications in drug delivery and medicine
This article by Dr. Kumud Joshi et al. is published in Current Drug Delivery, Volume 16 , Issue 3, 2019 The Graphene family of materials...
Binge eating and smoking linked to bullying and sexual abuse
People who ever suffered bullying or sexual abuse have a lower quality of life similar to those living with chronic conditions like heart disease, diabetes,...
Blueprint for plant immune response found
Finding provides potential for increased disease resistance in cropsCredit: WSU Photos Washington State University researchers have discovered the way plants respond to disease-causing organisms, and...
