The spark that created life
Credit: Monash University Evolution by Darwinian natural selection is immensely powerful - both in nature and within laboratories. Using 'laboratory evolution', we can take an...
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Researchers uncover previously unstudied cancer enzyme
Researchers do not know how all the proteins and enzymes in the human body function, far from it. Now researchers at the University of Copenhagen...
Toward an ‘ultra-personalized’ therapy for melanoma
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science With new immunotherapy treatments for melanoma, recovery rates have risen dramatically, in some cases to around 50%. But they could...
Research Brief: Immediately limiting nicotine in all cigarettes could reduce smoking
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an advanced notice of a proposed rule in March that would reduce nicotine in all cigarettes and possibly...
Mitochondria come together to kill cancer cells
Credit: Onodera Y., et al., Nature Communications, July 11, 2018 Uncovered details of a molecular pathway in cancer cells could lead to improved treatment. Targeting...
Europe’s renewable energy directive poised to harm global forests
PRINCETON, N.J.--Europe's decision to promote the use of wood as a "renewable fuel" will likely greatly increase Europe's greenhouse gas emissions and cause severe harm...
Shedding light on 100-year-old cancer mystery
Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) LA JOLLA, CALIF. - Sept. 12, 2018 - For almost a century, scientists have observed a strange...
End of Colombia conflict may bring new threats to ecosystems
Credit: MarÃa Elena Gutiérrez Lagoueyte at Universidad EIA More than 50 years of internal conflict in Colombia have left behind roughly 8 million victims, including...
Scientific institutions continue to lag behind the #TimesUp movement
Scientific and medical institutions must fundamentally reconsider how they address sexual harassment in the workplace, three national leaders in gender equity in medicine argue in...
For women with genetic risk, twice-a-year MRI beats mammograms
Credit: Fred Pineda, postdoctoral fellow, the University of Chicago Medicine Getting magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans twice a year instead of one annual mammogram is...
With STDs at an all-time high, why aren’t more people getting a proven treatment?
ANN ARBOR, MI - Nearly 2.3 million times last year, Americans learned they had a sexually transmitted disease. But despite these record-high infection rates for...
Investigator at CHLA to study bone loss associated with cerebral palsy
Credit: Children's Hospital Los Angeles Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common physical disability originating in childhood. Approximately 2 of every 1000 babies born acquire...
Otago researchers find answers as to why some people are at risk of gout
Credit: University of Otago University of Otago researchers have helped characterise a genetic variant that enables new understanding of why some people are at risk...
NEJM perspective: How state attorneys general can protect public health
Gun violence, obesity, and the misuse of opioids and alcohol are responsible for roughly 374,000 deaths--15 percent of all deaths--each year in the United States....
What if needle pokes didn’t hurt? Hospital implements strategies to eliminate or reduce needle pain in kids
September 13, 2018 - A major US children's hospital introduced a first-of-its-kind project to eliminate or reduce pain from elective needle procedures in all infants...
