Older melanoma patients have better response to immune checkpoint blockade therapy
PHILADELPHIA -- (June 13, 2018) -- Patient age correlates with response to immunotherapy in melanoma and depleting regulatory T cells in young patients may have...
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Men turn to plastic surgeons for a better body image and more confidence at every age
Credit: American Society of Plastic Surgeons Body image is an issue most commonly discussed among women, but new statistics released by the American Society of...
Primary care providers say Michigan’s Medicaid expansion helped patients’ health and work
Credit: MDHHS ANN ARBOR, MI - Extending medical insurance to low-income Michigan residents meant they had better access to health care, earlier detection of serious...
Dementia can be caused by hypertension
A new study in Cardiovascular Research, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that patients with high blood pressure are at a higher risk of developing...
Modern blood cancer treatments require new approach for monitoring, reporting side effects
---Treatment changes including the advent of targeted and immune therapies have dramatically improved survival for blood cancers, but new report calls for improved evaluation of...
103rd ESA Annual Meeting: Preview and highlights
Extreme events - such as heat waves, droughts, floods, fires and storms - are made worse by human activities. For example, past civilizations, such as...
Binging, purging and fasting more common in overweight, obese young adults
Young adults who are overweight or obese are twice as likely as their leaner peers to binge and purge, use laxatives or diuretics, or force...
Intact forests: Indispensable to the fight against climate change
LONDON (12 June 2018) -- A major international conference on "Intact Forests in the 21st Century" will take place in Oxford, UK on 18 -...
Dialogue toward a human-relevant paradigm for biomedical research echoed in South America
Credit: Heloisa Machado Rio de Janeiro (June 10, 2018) --Since ancient times we have been interested in knowing about our anatomy, physiology and how our...
Structural biology: Until the last cut
Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories. Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now structurally characterized late stages in the assembly of the human small...
New technology has bright prospects for understanding plant biodiversity
Credit: Ran Wang. Biologists get a new look at plant biodiversity and function with new imaging technology developed at the University of Alberta. "Biodiversity and...
Psychedelic drugs promote neural plasticity in rats and flies
Credit: Ly et al. Psychedelic drugs may have mind-altering powers in the physical sense, too. A new study, published June 12 in the journal Cell...
Alzheimer’s disease: How amyloid aggregates alter neuronal function
Credit: Patricio Opazo/Daniel Choquet/IINS Alzheimer's disease, which affects nearly a million French people, is characterized by a premature alteration of the patient's cognitive faculti..
Breakthrough in lignin research: Spherical particles multiply enzyme efficiency
Credit: Photo: Valeria Azovskaya Researchers at Aalto University and York University have succeeded in creating a water-repellent composite structure out of lignin particles, in which...
Sea urchins see with their feet
Sea urchins lack eyes, but can see with their tentacle-like tube feet instead, previous research has indicated. Now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have...
