Majority of teenagers need food safety education
A new study from the University of Waterloo highlights a low level of awareness among youth around the proper precautions they need to take when...
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UCI researcher receives CIRM funding for stem cell-based retina therapy to treat blindness
Credit: UCI, Seiler Lab University of California, Irvine stem cell researcher Magdalene J. Seiler, PhD, has received a $4.8 million grant from the California Institute...
US flight attendants at elevated risk of several forms of cancer
Boston, MA - U.S. flight attendants have a higher prevalence of several forms of cancer, including breast cancer, uterine cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, thyroid cancer, and...
US flight crew have higher cancer rates than general population
Flight crew have higher rates of specific cancers than the general population, according to a study in the open access journal Environmental Health involving 5,366...
Portland State scientist awarded $700,000 NSF grant to study biological decision-making
Portland State University biologist Deborah Lutterschmidt won a $700,000 continuation grant from the National Science Foundation to study an essential choice all organisms make in...
SNMMI image of the year: PSMA PET imaging of theranostic for advanced prostate cancer
Credit: Michael Hofman, John Violet, Shahneen Sandhu, Justin Ferdinandus, Amir Iravani, Grace Kong, Aravind Ravi Kumar, Tim Akhurst, Sue Ping Thang, Price Jackson, Mark Scalzo,...
Historic growth in impact factors for Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. journals
New Rochelle, NY, June 26, 2018-- Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers announces significant growth in the impact factors of its peer-reviewed journals, as reported in...
Carbohydrates shape the profile of gut metabolites in piglet model of NEC
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine The risk of preterm infants developing necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is higher when they are fed formula than when they feed...
New imaging technique to use bioinspired camera to study tendon, ligament damage
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis Tommy John surgery, or reconstruction of the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) in the elbow, has been dubbed an epidemic...
A new link between cancer and aging
Credit: Brennan Wesley Scientists at Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina have found that human lung cancer cells resist dying by...
Progress toward improved Wilson’s disease drug
Credit: Tonks Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), working in collaboration with DepYmed Inc., a CSHL spinout...
Human insulin as safe and effective to treat type 2 diabetes as costlier insulin analogs
Patients with Type 2 diabetes who were treated with the newer generation of insulin analog drugs did not have substantially better outcomes than those treated...
Experimental drug combined with radiation kills brain tumors in pre-clinical studies
Credit: iStock A new study led by scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center has shown that an experimental drug known as AZ32 selectively sensitizes brain...
A Fox code for the face
Credit: Image by Pengfei Xu/Crump Lab/USC Stem Cell In the developing face, how do stem cells know whether to become cartilage, bones or teeth? To...
New insight into how Autism might develop in human brain
In a study published in Stem Cell Reports, a McGill team of scientists led by Dr. Carl Ernst, researcher at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre,...
