New model helps predict breast cancer risk in Hispanic women
ATLANTA — The first breast cancer risk-prediction model based entirely on data from Hispanic women, including whether a woman was born in or outside of...
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Understanding immune reaction to the hepatitis B virus
Credit: Professor Hiroyuki Oshiumi The innate immune system in mammals defends against infection from viruses and other microbial infections. Unfortunately, the human immune response to...
Preventing autoimmune disease after a viral infection
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The key weapon against viruses and bacteria that invade the body is production of antibodies, which act like guided missiles...
Reconstructing life at its beginning, cell by cell
Credit: Drosophila Virtual Expression eXplorer, BIMSB at the MDC After 13 rapid divisions a fertilized fly egg consists of about 6,000 cells. They all look...
The latest weapons against climate change: The beaver, the oyster, cold water and…
Credit: Jeff Burrell/WCS Beavers, high elevation streams, and oyster reefs are just three of the weapons in the fight against climate change discussed in 14...
University of Miami researchers awarded 2 NIH contracts to study Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer's disease is the leading cause of dementia in the elderly and occurs in all ethnic and racial groups. It affects more than 5 million...
Livestock production, a much smaller challenge to global food security…
Credit: GLEAM 2.0 Philadelphia, PA, September 11, 2017 – Humans face mounting challenges when it comes to finding ways to sustainably feed an exploding population....
Study: Drug may curb female infertility from cancer treatments
Credit: Schimenti Lab, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. – An existing drug may one day protect premenopausal women from life-altering infertility that commonly follows cancer treatments,...
Researchers discover that human hair and nails can tell toxic secrets
Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Chemicals used as flame retardants that are potentially harmful to humans are found in hair, toenails and fingernails, according...
First validated canine behavioral genetics findings of nine fear and aggression traits in…
Anxiety disorders are the most common type of mental illness in the United States. And while much is understood about the biochemistry of anxiety, little...
Matching up fruit flies, mushroom toxins and human health
Credit: Thomas Werner Pulling data from 180 different lines of fruit flies, researchers from Michigan Technological University compared resistance to a toxin found in mushrooms...
Confronted with sepsis, key immune mechanism breaks, Indiana…
INDIANAPOLIS – When the body encounters an infection, a molecular signaling system ramps up the body's infection-fighting system to produce more white blood cells to...
Wine snobbery: Fact vs. fiction (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2017 — We all know at least one wine snob who goes through all sorts of rituals...
Study reveals interplay of an African bat, a parasite and a virus
Credit: Tony Goldberg, UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. — If there is anything scientists are certain of when it comes to bats and their supposed role in...
HKU Professor Kenneth Leung conferred as a Fellow SETAC
Credit: The University of Hong Kong On 12 November 2017, Professor Kenneth Leung Mei-yee of the Swire Institute of Marine Science and School of Biological...
