Higher body fat linked to lower breast cancer risk in younger women
CHAPEL Hill - While obesity has been shown to increase breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women, a large-scale study co-led by a University of North...
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‘Flamingo:’ High-powered microscopy coming to a scientist near you
Credit: Jan Huisken Modern microscopy has given scientists a front-row seat to living, breathing biology in all its technicolor glory. But access to the best...
Scripps Research study provides new clues to improving chemotherapies
Credit: Shen Lab/Scripps Research JUPITER, FL - June 21, 2018 - About half of all drugs, ranging from morphine to penicillin, come from compounds that...
Crowding inside cells may influence many functions and major diseases
Among the most studied protein machines in history, mTORC1 has long been known to sense whether a cell has enough energy to build the proteins...
Dying cancer cells make remaining glioblastoma cells more aggressive and therapy-resistant
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A surprising form of cell-to-cell communication in glioblastoma promotes global changes in recipient cells, including aggressiveness, motility, and resistance to...
Scientists discover new gene expression mechanism with possible role in human disease
Credit: Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga, UNC Health Care CHAPEL HILL, NC - When cells grow and divide to ensure a biological function - such as a properly...
Prellis Biologics achieves milestone in 3D printing of human tissue with capillaries
Credit: Prellis Biologics San Francisco, CA--June 21, 2018--Prellis Biologics, a San Francisco-based 3D tissue printing company, announced that it has reached record speed and resolution...
Turning a phage
Credit: UC San Diego Health With microbial resistance to antibiotics growing into a major global health crisis, researchers at University of California San Diego School...
Cells stop dividing when this gene kicks into high gear, study finds
Credit: Darleny Lizardo/Alan Siegel/University at Buffalo North Campus Confocal Imaging Facility BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Scientists seeking to unlock the secrets of cellular aging have identified...
Army study quantifies changes in stress after meditation
Credit: US Army photo by Dr. Valerie Rice ADELPHI, MD. - For a thousand years, people have reported feeling better by meditating but there has...
Major gaps in influenza immunization coverage among older adults of racial and ethnic groups tackled by leading scientists
Major immunization gaps among older adults of racial and ethnic groups was the core of an expert roundtable comprised of epidemiologists, clinical trial investigators, social...
Bisexual men have higher risk for heart disease
Bisexual men have a higher risk for heart disease compared with heterosexual men across several modifiable risk factors, finds a new study published online in...
Alzheimer’s breakthrough: Brain metals that may drive disease progression revealed
Credit: University of Warwick/Dr Joanna Collingwood Breakthrough in description of metals in brain which may drive the progression of Alzheimer's disease, made by international research...
Science Minister announces £20 million Plastics Research and Innovation Fund to turn the tide
(Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) A new £20 million fund that aims to explore new ideas and innovations that can bring changes in the...
Hitchhiking to kill
How can elimination of therapeutics from the bloodstream or their early enzymatic degradation be avoided in systemic delivery? Chinese scientists have new developed a method...
