Arthritis drugs potentially safe for expectant mothers
(McGill University Health Centre) A new study led by a team at the Research Institute of the MUHC (RI-MUHC) in Montreal has revealed that pregnant...
NEWS INDEX
Rheumatoid arthritis drugs taken during pregnancy may not be linked to large infection risk in child
New research indicates that when pregnant women take certain rheumatoid arthritis (RA) drugs that may cause immunosuppression, their children do not have a marked excess...
Climate change in Quebec equals a much greater diversity of species???
Credit: Jacques Larivée A team of researchers believe that, paradoxically, climate change may result in Quebec's national and provincial parks becoming biodiversity refuges of continental...
Diverse and abundant megafauna documented at new Atlantic US Marine National Monument
BOSTON (May 17, 2018) Airborne marine biologists were dazzled by the diversity and abundance of large, unusual and sometimes endangered marine wildlife on a recent...
Whole-tree logging may not hinder plant biodiversity
Credit: Sarah Bird/Michigan Tech As much as we love our two-by-fours and toilet paper, many of us have mixed feelings about logging. Those feelings can...
Mechanical force controls the speed of protein synthesis
Credit: Benjamin Fritch As cells create proteins, the proteins modulate synthesis speed by exerting a mechanical force on the molecular machine that makes them, according...
NOAA finds rising emissions of ozone-destroying chemical banned by Montreal Protocol
Credit: NOAA image Emissions of one of the chemicals most responsible for the Antarctic ozone hole are on the rise, despite an international treaty that...
CHEST simulation center awarded $3 million in equipment donation
Credit: Andrea Camino The American College of Chest Physicians® (CHEST) received a $3 million charitable grant from the Olympus Corporation's Grants Committee. This equipment grant,...
Quartet of NFCR scientists publishes papers in immediate succession
ROCKVILLE, MD - A trio of papers co-authored by four National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) scientists has been published this week in highly-cited and...
A ‘dirty bomb’ battles cancer metastasis
CHICAGO --- The death of her mother from ovarian cancer when Dr. Sui Huang was only 12 led to her lifelong scientific pursuit and a...
NIH, Northwestern scientists develop potential new approach to stop cancer metastasis
Researchers have identified a compound that blocks the spread of pancreatic and other cancers in various animal models. When cancer spreads from one part of...
Reducing cholesterol could enhance T-cell cancer immunotherapy
CLEVELAND - Cleveland Clinic researchers have demonstrated for the first time that lowering blood cholesterol levels could enhance the success of a specific type of...
Under certain conditions, bacterial signals set the stage for leukemia
A new study by researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine shows that bacterial signals are crucial to the development of a precursor condition to...
Cellular valve structure opens up potential novel therapies
Credit: Raimund Dutzler, UZH Human cells are enclosed by membranes and are in osmotic equilibrium with their environment. If the concentration of solute molecules (osmolarity)...
Mayo discovery means individualized ovarian, brain cancer therapies
ROCHESTER, Minn. - Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered that a molecular communication pathway - thought to be defective in cancer - is a key player...
POPULAR NEWS
-
Research Indicates Potential Connection Between Prenatal Medication Exposure and Elevated Autism Risk
-
Scientists Investigate Possible Connection Between COVID-19 and Increased Lung Cancer Risk
-
Salmonella Haem Blocks Macrophages, Boosts Infection
-
NSF funds machine-learning research at UNO and UNL to study energy requirements of walking in older adults