Parents’ behavior during playtime may affect toddler’s weight later on
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Parents who positively engage with their children during play time -- and gently steer them to clean up afterward -- may...
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3D cell environment key for divvying up chromosomes — find could explain cancer hallmark
Credit: K. Knouse et al./Cell 2018 For some cells, context is everything. Cells plucked out of their native environs have trouble divvying up their chromosomes...
A mechanism underlying activity of cancer and autism associated proteins was discovered
Credit: Sergey Dmitriev An international team of researchers has determined the function of a new family of proteins associated with cancer and autism. The results...
Keeping cancer out of breath blocks drug resistance
Credit: University of Texas at Austin A new combination of existing drugs shows promise that it could reduce the size of cancerous tumors much more...
How not saying ‘cancer’ for low-risk thyroid cancer may affect treatment preferences, patient anxiety
Bottom Line: Could removing "cancer" from the terminology for low-risk small papillary thyroid cancers (PTCs) reduce patients' anxiety so they consider less invasive treatment than...
Integrated analysis finds vulnerabilities to target in a high-risk pediatric tumor
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (MEMPHIS, Tenn. - AUG. 23, 2018) St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have completed the most comprehensive analysis yet...
Friends who are former smokers are key to helping people with serious mental illness quit
Credit: Dartmouth Institute People with serious mental illness (SMI) have a reduced life expectancy of up to 25 years compared to the general population. Smoking...
ASU receives multimillion grant from NSF to create a national biorepository
The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) has named Arizona State University as its primary location to house a national biorepository for the next 30 years....
Shrimp heal injured fish
James Cook University scientists in Australia have discovered that shrimp help heal injured fish. PhD student David Vaughan is working on a project led by...
Handheld imager poised to provide new insights into eye and brain diseases
Credit: Theodore DuBose, Duke University WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed and demonstrated the first handheld ophthalmology instrument with resolution-boosting adaptive optics technology t..
Who owns the world? 50 years of commons research
Fifty years ago, US ecologist Garret Hardin launched a global debate. In his essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" he warned of the consequences of...
Biomimetic chemistry: Carbohydrate capture
LMU chemist Professor Ivan Huc, who heads a research group devoted to the study of Biomimetic Supramolecular Chemistry, has designed and synthesized a molecular structure...
Researchers develop cryopreservation method of ladybird beetle ovaries
Credit: NIBB A new study has found an effective way to cryopreserve - preservation by cooling to very low temperature - and subsequently transplant ovaries...
Polymer antibodies efficiently target and eliminate cancer cells
Credit: F. Canfarotto et al./Nano Letters A joint research team from Russia and the U.K. has demonstrated the possibility of developing a new type of...
New research proposes using local data in resolving malnutrition
(August 23, 2018) Kwashiorkor, one of the most extreme forms of malnutrition, is estimated to affect more than a hundred thousand children annually. The condition...
