International ‘A’ team debuts brain cancer atlas
It takes an "A" team to make headway against glioblastoma, a highly aggressive type of brain cancer. Glioblastoma is the most common type of malignant...
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Bioengineers identify safer way to make rugby tackles
Credit: Ciaran Simms and Gregory Tierney, Trinity College Dublin. Bioengineers have compiled a set of recommendations that could significantly reduce concussions and other head injuries...
How the brain performs flexible computations
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Humans can perform a vast array of mental operations and adjust their behavioral responses based on external instructions and internal beliefs. For...
A better way to trace neuronal pathways
Credit: Kepecs Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - New technologies have been likened, famously, to magic. At first, even the few who understand how...
Killing bacteria by silencing genes may be alternative to antibiotics
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A new approach to killing C. difficile that silences key bacterial genes while sparing other bacteria may provide a new way...
Sensor detects whiff of bad breath
Ever wish you could do a quick "breath check" before an important meeting or a big date? Now researchers, reporting in ACS' journal Analytical Chemistry,...
New nuclear medicine method shows promise for better detection of neuroendocrine tumors
Credit: GP Nicolas et al., University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland RESTON, VA - Researchers have shown that a new nuclear medicine procedure could safely and...
National Cancer Institute selects ASU to lead revolutionary research in cancer
Credit: Biodesign Institute Arizona State University has been awarded more than $8.5 million over five years from the National Cancer Institute to establish the Arizona...
Mangos help promote gut health
Credit: National Mango Board ORLANDO, FL (June 6, 2018) -- Next time you suffer from constipation, you may want to consider grabbing a mango instead...
Are two cancer immunotherapy drugs better than one?
A class of immunotherapy drugs called checkpoint inhibitors has shown great promise against cancer in some patients. However, researchers' attempts to boost the drugs' efficacy...
New lab technology could reveal treatments for muscle-wasting disease
Credit: Yung-Yao Lin, QMUL Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed new cell-based technologies which could help improve understanding of the muscle-wasting disease...
Inside the brains of killer bees
Africanized honeybees, commonly known as "killer bees," are much more aggressive than their European counterparts. Now researchers have examined neuropeptide changes that take place in...
New link identified between inflammation and depression in type-1 diabetes
Depression in type-1 diabetes patients is associated with higher levels of the inflammatory protein galectin-3, according to research published in Endocrine Connections. These findings suggest...
What doctors wear really does matter, study finds
Credit: University of Michigan/BMJ Open Physicians may want to dig a little deeper into their closets, or grab their white coats on the way out...
What would help or hinder patient participation in mitochondrial disease clinical trials?
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia As clinical trials gear up with the aim of attaining the first FDA-approved treatments for mitochondrial disease, a new study...
