Relapsed leukemia flies under immune system’s radar
Credit: Matt Miller Patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive cancer of the blood, often are treated with stem cell transplantation, in which a...
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Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, November 2018
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy Transportation--Going with the flow Self-driving cars promise to keep traffic moving smoothly and reduce fuel usage,...
Cocaine-fentanyl overdoses underscore need for more ‘test strips’ and rapid response
PHILADELPHIA - Penn Medicine emergency department physicians are calling for more readily available testing strips to identify the presence of fentanyl in patients experiencing a...
NUS study: RNA defects linked to multiple myeloma progression in high risk patients
Multiple myeloma (MM) is the second most common type of blood cancer where cancer cells accumulate in the bone marrow, crowding out healthy blood cells....
Seeing cell membranes in a new light
If you want to understand how the cell membrane works, Adam Cohen says, look no further than your kitchen. Cohen, a Professor of Chemistry and...
Making collective sense of brainwaves
Credit: Reproduced with permission from reference 1 © 2018 John Wiley and Sons The lack of tools to be able to pinpoint anomalies in large...
Investigators study how a protein factor contributes to cancer cell migration
KEY FINDINGS UCLA researchers have discovered a new protein factor that contributes to a fibroblast cell's ability to migrate to a wound and participate in...
Study: Impact of mercury-controlling policies shrinks with every five-year delay
Mercury is an incredibly stubborn toxin. Once it is emitted from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants, among other sources, the gas can drift through...
The protein Matrin-3 determines the fate of neural stem cells in brain development
Credit: Kanako Niimori-Kita A research group from Kumamoto University, Japan has discovered a new neurogenic mechanism responsible for brain development. By applying proprietary technology to...
How cancer-causing papillomaviruses evolved
Credit: Chen Z, et al. (2018) Cancer-causing human papillomaviruses (HPVs) diverged from their most recent common ancestors approximately half a million years ago, roughly coinciding...
Searching in soil, scientists find a new way to combat tuberculosis
Credit: Jacob Arthur Pritchard for The Rockefeller University For decades, doctors have been using antibiotics to fight tuberculosis (TB). And consistently, the microbe responsible for...
Specific CD8 T cell states may indicate response to immune checkpoint therapy for melanoma
A multi-institutional research team, led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, has identified specific states of...
Reef RangerBot becomes ‘LarvalBot’ to spread coral babies
Credit: QUT Media QUT's reef protector robot is set to become 'mother' to hundreds of millions of baby corals in a special delivery coinciding with...
Zika circulates among wild animals in the Americas, making eradication nearly impossible
GALVESTON, Texas -A collaborative group of researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and the Faculty of Medicine of Sao Jose do...
Glutamine metabolism affects T cell signaling and function
The cellular nutrient glutamine launches a metabolic signaling pathway that promotes the function of some immune system T cells and suppresses others, Vanderbilt researchers have...
