Study: Many parents of children with disabilities don’t make care plans
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Fewer than half of parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities make long-term plans about...
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Study shows liver cells with whole genome duplications protect against cancer
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Feb. 9, 2018 – Researchers at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute (CRI) at UT Southwestern have discovered...
A common virus may help inform treatment planning for stem cell…
Credit: VCU Massey Cancer Center Most healthy people barely notice infection with the human cytomegalovirus (hCMV), a form of the herpes virus that has evolved...
New hope for stopping an understudied heart disease in its tracks
Credit: UW-Madison photo by Stephanie Precourt. MADISON — The diminutive size of our aortic valve — just shy of a quarter — belies its essential...
TSRI scientists show deep brain stimulation blocks heroin relapse in rats
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, CA — Feb. 1, 2017 — Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found that deep brain...
Sanofi and the Institut Pasteur reward five researchers in the service of human health
Credit: Jeffrey Gordon: (c) James Byard – Washington University Antonio Lanzavecchia: (c) Alessandro Crinari Michel Nussenzweig: (c) Mario Morgado – The Rockfeller University François Leulier:...
Levin wins National Medal of Science for unraveling ecological complexity
IMAGE: Simon Levin, Princeton University's George M. Moffett Professor of Biology and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will receive a National Medal of Science,...
Sleep-inducing herb: The key component identified
Credit: University of Tsukuba Can't sleep? Your sleep problems may be improved if you try an Indian herb, Ashwagandha. Researchers in the sleep institute in...
Researchers discuss challenges, successes of HIV cure research in science
Chapel Hill, NC – A better understanding of HIV latency is the key to eradicating the virus researchers at the University of North Carolina and...
Rare bactrian deer survives years of turmoil in Afghanistan
AMHERST, Mass. – Forty years of unrest in Afghanistan left wildlife ecologists uncertain whether one of the region's rare sub-species of red deer, the Bactrian...
New handheld spectral analyzer uses power of smartphone to detect disease
Credit: Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed technology that enables a smartphone to...
Ben-Gurion U. researchers pinpoint child-pedestrian behaviors that lead to auto accidents
BEER-SHEVA, Israel…December 21, 2015 – "Look both ways before you cross the street" may be sage advice, but it is also apparently necessary for children...
Novel technologies reveal key information about depleted east pacific green sea turtles
Credit: Cali Turner Tomaszewicz Populations of green sea turtles living in the eastern region of the Pacific Ocean have rebounded in recent years, but their...
Protein complex prevents genome instability
Credit: Miki Shinohara An international collaboration between Osaka University and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) in Switzerland is investigating the repair process...
Powerful new technique can clone thousands of genes at once
Credit: Jennifer E. Fairman/Johns Hopkins University Scientists at Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, the University of Trento in Italy, and Harvard Medical School report they have developed...
