Zika virus in Brazil kills brain cell, impairs intra uterine growth of mice fetuses
The Zika virus strain circulating in Brazil was shown to be able to infect and cause damage to mice fetuses. In stem cell cultures of...
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Enzyme behind immune cell response revealed
Credit: Monash university Monash University researchers have revealed the role played by an enzyme that is pivotal to the process of clearing infection in the...
‘Human chronobiome’ study informs timing of drug delivery, precision medicine…
Credit: Scientific Reports; Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Symptoms and efficacy of medications – and indeed, many aspects of the human body itself...
New method to grow womb lining and mimic menstrual cycle in the laboratory dish
Credit: Matteo Boretto, et al. Scientists at KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium, have succeeded in growing three-dimensional cultures of the endometrium, the uterus' inner...
Team establishes first diagnostic criteria for idiopathic multicentric castleman disease
Credit: David Fajgenbaum, MD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA – More than six decades after Castleman disease (CD) was first described, a...
Eldercare Workforce Alliance recognizes Rep. Jan Schakowsky for policy leadership
Credit: (C) 2017, Eldercare Workforce Alliance The Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA) today recognized Rep. Jan Schakowsky with its Award of Honor for her decades of...
Fructose consumption linked to the increase of liver disease among…
Credit: Journal of Hepatology Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 14, 2017 – Recent research suggests that dietary fructose intake may increase serum uric acid concentrations and...
Teaching life a new trick: Bacteria make boron-carbon bonds
Credit: David Chen and Yan Liang (BeautyOfScience.com) for Caltech In another feat of bioengineering, Caltech's Frances Arnold, the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineerin..
Ancient medicinal clay shows promise against today’s worst…
IMAGE: UBC researchers Julian Davies and Shekooh Behroozian with a bucket of the clay. Credit: University of British Columbia. Naturally occurring clay from British Columbia,...
NIH begins study of vaccine to protect against mosquito-borne diseases
Credit: NIAID The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has launched a Phase 1 clinical...
Drugs with multiple targets show promise against myotonic dystrophy…
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Efforts to treat myotonic dystrophy type 1, the most common form of muscular dystrophy, are in their infancy. In a new study,...
Eating the placenta after childbirth — researchers explore perceptions of health…
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine () is a monthly peer-reviewed journal published online with open access options and in print. Led by John...
Test holds potential to diagnose myriad conditions with drop of blood
PITTSBURGH, June 9, 2016 – Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a unique method for detecting antibodies in the blood of patients in...
Doubling vegetable consumption in schools with a lower-cost gaming approach
breaks new ground as the first journal to address this emerging and increasingly important area of health care. The Journal provides a bimonthly forum… view...
Human intrusion on fruit bat habitats raises exposure risk to Hendra…
Credit: James Nilson Reported today in Scientific Reports by researchers from the University of Sydney, University of Melbourne and State University of New York, the...
