New method of pinpointing cancer mutations could lead to more targeted treatments
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(September 11, 2018) Cancer cells often have mutations in their DNA that can give scientists clues about how the cancer started...
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NSF funds new integrative approaches to cognitive science, neuroscience
Credit: deradrian via Flickr Creative Commons The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded funding to 18 cross-disciplinary projects to conduct innovative research on neural and...
10-year study of Salmonella enterica serotype Newport infections in the US
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 11, 2018--A 10-year investigation evaluating data from four surveillance systems captured information on the geographic...
Drug for pancreatic cancer developed by college of pharmacy researchers
Credit: University of Houston A treatment for highly aggressive and commonly fatal pancreatic cancer is being developed, reports a University of Houston researcher who has...
New nanoparticles wait to release drugs, target infection
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Current WSU research shows stimuli-responsive nanoparticles can specifically target infections to simultaneously prevent the spread of bacteria and reduce the inflammation it...
Miniaturized HTS assay identifies selective modulators of GPR119 to treat type 2 diabetes
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, September 11, 2018-A novel high throughput screening (HTS) assay compatible with an ion channel biosensor component was...
Regrowing dental tissue with stem cells from baby teeth
Credit: Courtesy of University of Pennsylvania Sometimes kids trip and fall, and their teeth take the hit. Nearly half of children suffer some injury to...
Stress linked to more advanced disease in some leukemia patients
Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who feel more stress also have more cancer cells in their blood and elevated levels of three other markers...
New insight on rotavirus mechanics could lead to improved treatments
Credit: Image created by Scixel (http://scixel.es/), under the instructions of D. Luque and P. J. de Pablo. Researchers have provided new insight on the mechanics...
For the first time, a neural link between altruism and empathy toward strangers
Giving up a kidney to a stranger requires a certain sense of selflessness, what's come to be known in social science as extraordinary altruism. University...
Changes in mitochondrial DNA control how nuclear DNA mutations are expressed in cardiomyopathy
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Differences in the DNA within the mitochondria, the energy-producing structures within cells, can determine the severity and progression of heart...
‘Evil’ proteins a force for good in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer
Credit: Kris Hanning, UAHS BioCommunications Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in the United States, striking 1 out of 8 women. About...
Immunology
Mononuclear phagocytes can both promote and inhibit inflammation. A Team from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich has now shown that individual phagocytes in the central nervous...
AGA expands workforce and research diversity work with NIH grant
Bethesda, MD (Sept. 11, 2018) -- Building on a longstanding commitment to developing diversity in the biomedical science research workforce, AGA is pleased to announce...
A new study examines use of twitter to spread or debunk conspiracy theories
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 10, 2018--Researchers investigating the use of Twitter to propagate or debunk conspiracy theories related to...
