Taking steps toward a wearable artificial kidney
There just aren't enough kidney transplants available for the millions of people with renal failure. Aside from a transplant, the only alternative for patients is...
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New method uses just a drop of blood to monitor lung cancer treatment
Credit: Osaka University Dr Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering the immune T-cell protein PD-1. This discovery led...
Sleeping beauty helps identify genes involved in a fatty liver-associated liver cancer
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - With an estimated twenty-thousand protein-coding genes in the human genome, pinpointing a specific gene or pathway responsible for a...
Regulating microglial activity may reduce inflammation in neurodegenerative diseases
A group of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators is proposing that targeting immune checkpoints - molecules that regulate the activity of the immune system -...
Breakthrough Prize to CSHL professor for SMA research
Credit: CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor Adrian Krainer today received the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Collaborators...
Blue crab baby sizes and shapes influence their survival
Credit: Joseph Caracappa/Rutgers University-New Brunswick Like people, blue crabs aren't all the same sizes and shapes. Now Rutgers scientists have discovered substantial differences in the...
Novel switching valve to receive more semen in a sex-role reversed cave insect
Credit: Photo provided by Kazunori Yoshizawa. The Brazilian cave insect Neotrogla are of special evolutionary and morphological interest because of their reversed genital structures, a...
ESMO Women for Oncology Forum focuses on power sharing to foster gender equality
LUGANO-MUNICH, 17 October 2018 - The Women for Oncology (W4O) Forum at ESMO 2018, Sharing the Power, on Friday, 19 October (1), will focus on...
High-dose radiation therapy improves survival in patients once thought incurable
ARLINGTON, Va., October 17, 2018 -- In the first randomized, phase II clinical trial of its kind, researchers have shown that an aggressive form of...
Russian scientists receive grants for new research projects in natural sciences
Credit: Stepan Likhachev The employees of the Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Dmitry Zaitsev and Dmitry Tsvetkov and a specialist from the Institute of...
The impact of microplastics on the environment unclear, study suggests
Scientists say there is not yet enough evidence to conclude that microplastics do or do not cause harm to the environment, following a review of...
African-American men’s health disparities: Research, practice, and policy implications
Ann Arbor, October 17, 2018 - The burden of risk factors for chronic disease is substantially higher in black men compared with their white counterparts,...
Childhood abuse linked to increased arthritis risk in adulthood
In a survey-based study of 21,889 adults in Canada, severe and/or frequent physical abuse during childhood and frequent childhood exposure to intimate partner violence were...
Novel antidepressant may improve sleep in patients with depression
In a study of 15 patients affected by major depressive disorder and complaining of insomnia, initiating treatment with vortioxetine for their depressive symptoms led to...
Study examines factors linked with opioid misuse among university students
In a survey-based study of 9,449 university students at a large, public Midwestern university, misusers of prescription opioid medications were more likely to live off...
