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Circulation Research Journal Report DALLAS, February 7, 2019 - Infection with high-risk strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV), which have been linked to cancer, might...

GenesisCare and the University of Oxford establish innovative 10-year cancer research partnership

Credit: GenesisCare UK, 7 February 2019: Today GenesisCare and the University of Oxford's Department of Oncology announce the launch of an exclusive 10-year partnership to...

Vitamin D helps treat lethal drug-resistant TB

Vitamin D has been found to speed up the clearance of tuberculosis (TB) bacteria from the lungs of people with multi-drug resistant TB, according to...

Why your kid's strep throat keeps coming back

A combination of genetic and immunological factors makes some children susceptible to the bacteria that cause strep throatCredit: Dr. Yu Kato, La Jolla Institute for...

More than enough on our plates

Tackling the obesity crisis by shrinking fish and chips A smaller portion of fish and chips has been embraced by takeaway owners and customers, research...

Microbial manufacturing

Study unravels how microbes produce key compound used to fight cancer For decades, scientists and doctors have known that bacteria in soil were capable of...

Male Y chromosomes not 'genetic wastelands'

When researchers say they have sequenced the human genome, there is a caveat to this statement: a lot of the human genome is sequenced and...

USDA grant to blend data with agriculture for improved production

Technology in agricultureCredit: UT Arlington A University of Texas at Arlington math professor will use a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to prepare graduate and...

Cilostazol-combo antiplatelet therapy reduced risk for recurrent stroke

American Stroke Association Late Breaking News Brief - Abstract LB 3, Session MEI Opening Main Event HONOLULU, Feb. 6, 2019 -- Stroke survivors taking a...

Intense IV blood sugar control doesn't improve stroke outcomes

American Stroke Association Late Breaking News Brief - Abstract LB 1, Session MEI Opening Main Event HONOLULU, Feb. 6, 2019 -- Intravenous (IV) insulin did...

Ambulance nitroglycerin patch to lower blood pressure did not improve stroke outcomes

American Stroke Association Late Breaking News Brief - Abstract LB 2, Session MEI Opening Main Event HONOLULU, Feb. 6, 2019 -- Lowering blood pressure in...

UNC-led team awarded $5.1 million for cervical cancer prevention in Malawi

CHAPEL HILL -- Backed by a $5.1 million grant, University of North Carolina and University of Malawi College of Medicine physicians and scientists will launch...

OU study finds insects crave salt and search grasslands for the limiting nutrient

Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma team from the Geographical Ecology Group has published a new study in the journal Ecology on the...

A very small number of crops are dominating globally. That's bad news for sustainable agriculture

Four crops alone comprise close to 50 per cent of all crops grown globallyCredit: University of Toronto Scarborough A new U of T study suggests...

In their DNA: Rotator cuff stem cells more likely to develop into fat cells