Trapped in a nuclear weapon bunker wood ants survive for years in Poland
Having built their nest over the vertical ventilation pipe of an old nuclear weapon bunker in Poland, every year a large number of wood ants...
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Scleroderma study: Hope for a longer life for patients with rare…
Credit: UVA Health System An unusual autoimmune disease that causes skin and lung damage can be treated effectively by stem cell transplant, a new study...
Personalized cell therapy combination achieves complete remission in CLL patients
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – Combining the kinase inhibitor ibrutinib with an investigational personalized cellular therapy known as CTL119 can lead to complete remission in...
How will genomics enter day-to-day medicine?
A quiet transformation has been brewing in medicine, as large-scale DNA results become increasingly available to patients and healthcare providers. Amid a cascade of data,...
Federal report recommends teaching self-regulation in schools
Credit: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. A new federal report recommends that schools emphasize building children's "self-regulation" skills in order to increase opportunities fo..
D’Angelo receives American Cancer Society Research Scholar grant
Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute La Jolla, Calif., Dec. 1, 2017 – Maximiliano D'Angelo, Ph.D., an assistant professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical...
Study: Most families in low-income countries don’t have soap at home
Credit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. – Washing with soap and water is second nature for many. But in many other places around the world,...
Statins may lower risk of heart disease in people with sleep apnea
IMAGE: Arrows indicate that more CD59 is drawn into the cell in people with sleep apnea who are not taking statins (left); whereas more CD59...
Trial looks at whether compound relieves cognitive deficits after…
Dr. Nancy Sweitzer: “I think it’s a great Arizona story that we had this confluence of expertise across very different and complementary disciplines. Nobody else...
Precision medicine advances pediatric brain tumor diagnosis and…
Credit: Dana-Farber/Boston Children's BOSTON (January 19, 2017) — Precision medicine – in which diagnosis and treatments are keyed to the genetic susceptibilities of individual cancers...
Unraveling the genetics of disc disease in dogs
Credit: Katy Robertson Since the early 1900s, veterinarians have observed intervertebral disc disease — a common cause of back pain, rear limb paralysis and inability...
Spray painting biomaterials onto heart promotes cardiac repair after…
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 21, 2017–Researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of a minimally invasive method to form a regenerative...
Why chemists marched for science (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, April 28, 2017 — Tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington, D.C., and many more at hundreds of...
Hippo teeth reveal environmental change
Loss of megaherbivores such as elephants and hippos can allow woody plants and non-grassy herbs and flowering plants to encroach on grasslands in African national...
DNA markers distinguish between harmless, deadly bacteria
Credit: NIAID LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Dec. 19, 2016 — The virulent pathogen that causes the disease tularemia, or "rabbit fever," was weaponized during past world...
