Muscles can ‘ask’ for the energy they need
Credit: Texas A&M Health Science Center Muscles require energy to perform all of the movements that we do in a day, and now, for the...
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Peptide complex formed in the brain is responsible for Alzheimer’s disease
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...
Rice U. paper: End ‘stem cell tourism’
HOUSTON – (Nov. 9, 2015) – The continued marketing and use of experimental stem cell-based interventions inside and outside the United States is problematic and...
Researchers find new way to attack gastro bug
Credit: Griffith University A team at Griffith's Institute for Glycomics identified a unique sensory structure that is able to bind host-specific sugar and is present...
Auto pioneer’s family turns tragedy into discovery with $5 million commitment to…
Credit: University of Michiga ANN ARBOR, MI – Fifty years ago this spring, entrepreneur Heinz Prechter moved his company to Detroit, to answer car buyers'...
WSU looks for practices to thwart antimicrobial resistance
Credit: Washington State University The death last year of a woman in Reno, Nev., from an infection resistant to every type of antibiotic available in...
Penn gastroenterologists receive funding to continue research…
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – A research group in the division of Gastroenterology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has...
TSRI scientists stabilize HIV structure, design potential AIDS vaccine candidates
LA JOLLA, CA – June 28, 2016 – Want to catch a criminal? Show a mugshot on the news. Want to stop HIV infections? Get...
Nation’s largest state effort to track concussions in youth athletes under way in Texas
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – December 12, 2016 – The nation's largest statewide effort to track concussions among youth athletes is under way in Texas...
New TSRI study: Flipping molecular ‘switch’ may reduce…
IMAGE: Loren 'Larry' Parsons, senior author of the new study, is a professor at The Scripps Research Institute. Credit: Photo courtesy of The Scripps Research...
Quest to prevent Macular degeneration continues with UA researcher’s $1.7m NIH grant
Credit: Kris Hanning, UAHS BioCommunications TUCSON, Ariz. – After showing that individuals who take levodopa, or l-dopa, for movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease are...
Bad cold? If you’re lonely, it may feel worse
Credit: Illustration by Valentina Gonzalez/Rice University HOUSTON – (March 30, 2017) – Suffering through a cold is annoying enough, but if you're lonely, you're likely...
Changes in metabolites can regulate earliest stages of development
Changes in cellular metabolites have been shown to regulate embryonic stem cell development at the earliest stages of life. Metabolites are simple compounds generated during...
Encouraging clinical results for an antibody drug to prevent or treat HIV
Credit: The Rockefeller University A new biologic agent–the most potent of its kind so far–is showing early promise as part of a potential new strategy...
Nanoparticles loaded with mRNA give disease-fighting properties to…
Biodegradable nanoparticles (orange) carry short-lived gene therapy to specific cells (light teal), giving them disease-fighting properties. Kimberly Carney / Fred Hutch News Service A new...
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