£4 million bid to find therapies that prompt damaged tissues to repair
(University of Edinburgh) Stem cell scientists are to join forces with doctors to investigate methods of promoting tissue repair in the liver, lungs and joints....
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Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Peter Baumann
Credit: photo/©: Svea Pietschmann, Humboldt-Stiftung Molecular biologist Professor Peter Baumann of Mainz University received an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship. Germany's highest endowed ..
Occupational exposures linked with increased risk of COPD
Credit: Photo by , via Wikimedia Commons... An international team led by researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)..
Shiga toxin-producing E. coli in food
Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a germ that occurs naturally in the gut of mammals and birds, as well as in the human intestinal flora....
People with OCD process emotions differently than their unaffected siblings
Philadelphia, May 9, 2018 - A new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging reports that people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) feel more distress...
Penn engineer make drug microparticles a thousand times faster than ever before
Credit: University of Pennsylvania Pharmaceuticals owe their effects mostly to their chemical composition, but the packaging of these drugs into specific physical formulations also need...
Penn experts call for safeguards if Medicaid work requirement policies prevail
PHILADELPHIA -- When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced controversial policies inviting states to establish work requirements as a condition to receive...
Heart failure: The Alzheimer’s disease of the heart?
Credit: Courtesy of Circulation Research, May 11, 2018 Similar to how protein clumps build up in the brain in people with some neurodegenerative diseases such...
2018 ICIS-BioLegend William E. Paul Award for Excellence in Cytokine Research
Credit: International Cytokine & Interferon Society Giorgio Trinchieri, MD, NIH, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research is the recipient of the 2018 ICIS-BioLegend William...
Oxford University Press to publish Antibody Therapeutics
Oxford University Press and the Chinese Antibody Society are pleased to announce their new partnership to launch the journal Antibody Therapeutics this spring. A peer-reviewed,...
Human MAIT cells sense the metabolic state of enteric bacteria
Credit: Department of Biomedicine, Tobias Rutishauser A little-explored group of immune cells plays an important role in the regulation of intestinal bacteria. Changing metabolic states...
Major enhancement to in vitro testing of human liver-stage malaria
Credit: John Adams, PhD, University of South Florida TAMPA, Fla. (May 9, 2018) A newly developed technique allows researchers to more easily study malaria outside...
X-ray laser opens new view on Alzheimer’s proteins
A new experimental method permits the X-ray analysis of amyloids, a class of large, filamentous biomolecules which are an important hallmark of diseases such as...
Basing everyday decisions on risk of pain or loss linked to increased anxiety
Scientists have shone new light on how the human brain uses past experiences and generalizes them to future events, helping us safely navigate the world...
Research reveals key factors to support quality of life in dementia
Credit: University of Exeter A robust research analysis has identified what factors can be targeted to support people to live as well as possible with...
