UTSW scientists discover a new role for RNA in safeguarding human…
IMAGE: Dr. Joshua Mendell Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Dec. 24, 2015 – Molecular biologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a...
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McIndoe awarded $12.8 million grant to continue to lead national consortium on diabetic…
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Aug. 25, 2017) – Dr. Richard A. McIndoe, bioinformatics expert and associate director of the Center for Biotechnology and Genomic...
Researchers link post-right stroke delirium and spatial neglect to…
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ. Nov.20, 2017. Stroke researchers at Kessler Foundation have proposed a theory for the high incidence of delirium and spatial...
What happens when patients access their mental health providers’…
Credit: Michael Moody Thanks to electronic health records and online portals, more and more patients are being given access to the notes their clinicians write...
Pigeon study takes on sexism in science
Credit: Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis In experimental research, scientists tend to assume that — unless they are looking specifically at reproduction or sexual behavior — male...
New treatment shows promise for patients with rare dermatologic disease
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – A new treatment for a rare and often incurable condition called dermatomyositis (DM) reduced the severity of the disease in...
Global CAR T therapy trial shows high rates of durable remission for…
In a pair of clinical trials stretching from Philadelphia to Tokyo, the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy Kymriah™ (formerly known as CTL019) demonstrated...
Asthma research unexpectedly yields new treatment approach for inherited enzyme disease
Credit: Courtesy of EBioMedicine Experiments designed to reveal how a protein protects the lungs from asthma-related damage suggest a new way to treat a rare...
Wayne State receives major NIH grant to develop novel treatment for…
Credit: Julie O'Connor, Wayne State University DETROIT – A Wayne State University research team recently received a $1.9 million grant from the National Eye Institute...
Peptide complex formed in the brain is responsible for…
Credit: Vladimir Polshakov. Members of the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine at the Lomonosov Moscow State University have determined the structure of a peptide complex, formed...
Systems analysis points to links between Toxoplasma infection and…
More than 2 billion people – nearly one out of every three humans on earth, including about 60 million people in the United States –...
A monkey and a virus: One million years together
Credit: Image courtesy of the MIPT press office The introduction of sequencing and genome comparison tools marked the beginning of a new era in animal...
Diagnosing mononucleosis: UGA’s Mark Ebell works to expedite proper treatment
Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia's Mark Ebell wasn't impressed with research on infectious mononucleosis when he wrote his first published review on it...
People with prosthetic arms less affected by common illusion
Credit: Lauren Jennings People with prosthetic arms or hands do not experience the "size-weight illusion" as strongly as other people, new research shows. The size-weight...
New EU project designed to link diagnosis and treatment of diseases over the long term
This news release is available in German. An international team from four EU countries plans to use an innovative concept to improve the use of...
