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Credit: NIAID Enrollment has begun in an early-stage clinical trial testing the safety of two human monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) designed to treat people infected with...

Genome editing method targets AIDS virus

By destroying the regulatory genes of the AIDS virus HIV-1 using the genome editing system CRISPR/Cas9, a Japanese research group has succeeded in blocking the...

Particle shows promise for treating the deadliest type of breast cancer

Credit: Oihana Iriondo/Min Yu/USC Stem Cell USC researchers have pinpointed a remedy to thwart a protein that helps the metastatic spread of breast cancer, a...

World first use of cognitive training reduces gait freezing in Parkinson’s patients

The researchers report significant reduction in the severity and duration of freezing of gait, improved cognitive processing speed and reduced daytime sleepiness. Freezing of gait...

A new Achilles’ heel of blood cancer

Credit: CeMM/Anna Skucha (Vienna, May 18, 2018) AML is not a single disease. It is a group of leukemias that develop in the bone marrow...

Developmental psychotherapy for antisocial adolescents

Antisocial behavior is common during adolescence and incurs significant costs both for society and for the young people themselves. While most adolescents will not continue...

Flow of cerebrospinal fluid regulates neural stem cell division

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Stem cells in the brain can divide and mature into neurons participating in various brain...

Humira does not improve aortic vascular inflammation in psoriasis patients

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - An antibody used to treat the skin disease psoriasis and other chronic autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory...

Rutgers researchers create a 3D-printed smart gel that walks underwater, moves objects

Credit: Daehoon Han/Rutgers University-New Brunswick Rutgers University-New Brunswick engineers have created a 3D-printed smart gel that walks underwater and grabs objects and moves them. The...

Drug used to treat daytime sleepiness does not appear to improve driving in those with sleep apnea

Credit: ATS In "Does Armodafinil Improve Driving Task Performance and Weight Loss in Sleep Apnea? A Randomized Trial," Nathaniel Marshall, PhD, and his colleagues at...

Morris Animal Foundation study identifies new virus in cat

Credit: Dr. Julia Beatty, University of Sydney DENVER/May 17, 2018 - Morris Animal Foundation-funded researchers from the University of Sydney have found a previously undiscovered...

AgriLife scientists uncover a new face of a famous protein, SWI2/SNF2 ATPase

Credit: (Texas A&M AgriLife Research photo by Blair Fannin) COLLEGE STATION - A team of Texas A&M and Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists now have...

Insect gene allows reproductive organs to cope with harmful bacteria

Credit: Michael Clark and Bordenstein Lab A damaging bacteria with an uncanny ability to pass itself from insect mothers to eggs meets its genomic match...

Stem cell signaling drives mammary gland development and — maybe — breast cancer

The human body develops most tissue types during fetal development, in a mother's uterus. Yet one only tissue develops after birth: the mammary gland. This...

What bacteria can teach us about combating atrazine contamination