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...
A group of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators is proposing that targeting immune checkpoints - molecules that regulate the activity of the immune system -...
Credit: CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor Adrian Krainer today received the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Collaborators...
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...
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...
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...
ARLINGTON, Va., October 17, 2018 -- In the first randomized, phase II clinical trial of its kind, researchers have shown that an aggressive form of...
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...
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...
Ann Arbor, October 17, 2018 - The burden of risk factors for chronic disease is substantially higher in black men compared with their white counterparts,...
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...
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...
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...
For obese and overweight patients, it is common for various surgical procedures to be deferred until they have lost weight through diet and exercise. In...
More than a quarter of otherwise healthy six-year-old children may have metabolic risk factors that put them at increased risk for cardiovascular disease, according to...
