‘Sleeping’ stem cells could aid brain repair
Credit: Andrea Brand/Leo Otsuki Scientists at the Wellcome Trust/ Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, have identified a new type of stem cell...
NEWS INDEX
Review of Vitamin D Research identifies ethical issues in placebo use
WASHINGTON (April 5, 2018) -- Since World War II, medical ethics in research studies involving human subjects have shifted significantly. Despite this important growth, ethical...
Can we imitate organisms’ abilities to decode water patterns for new technologies?
Credit: Brendan Colvert, Mohamad Alsalman, Eva Kanso The shape of water. Can it tell us about what drives romance? Among fish, it might. Eva Kanso,...
New guidance for safe opioid prescribing for hospitalized patients with acute pain
BOSTON - For hospitalized patients, pain is an all-too-common part of the experience. Even among U.S. patients who have not undergone surgery, more than half...
Organoids created from patients’ bladder cancers could guide treatment
Credit: Columbia University Irving Medical Center NEW YORK, NY (April 5, 2018)-Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and NewYork-Presbyterian researchers have created patient-specific bl..
Findings from breast and gynecological cancer study may have potential for future clinical applicati
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found a startling amount of new information about molecular...
New discovery explains why cells with identical genes perform unique jobs
Scientists have made a significant discovery that explains how and why the billions of different cells in our bodies look and act so differently despite...
Risk of type 1 diabetes climbs when one population of T cells falls
Credit: Stephanie M. McPherson BOSTON - (April 5, 2018) - In autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, some of the immune system's T cells...
Fentanyl overdose survivors require little if any hospital treatment
Most fentanyl overdose survivors, if given the antidote promptly, don't need prolonged hospital treatment, according to a study by University of British Columbia physicians. That...
Chronic illnesses, functional limitations a risk in older adults with heart failure
Heart failure affects more than 6 million people in the U.S.--most of whom are older adults. Roughly half the older adults who have heart failure...
Van Andel Research Institute scientists help redefine how cancer is categorized
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (April 5, 2018) -- Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) announced today that the work of its scientists is featured in 27 papers...
Ten researchers to receive Germany’s most important award for early career researchers
This year ten researchers - five women and five men - will receive the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, the most important award for early career researchers...
New butterfly species discovered nearly 60 years after it was first collected
Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace In 1959, a then-teenage lepidopterist Thomas Emmel collected 13 fawn-colored butterflies in the highlands of Mexico. Nearly 60...
NCBS evolutionary biologists win American Society of Naturalists 2018 Presidential Award
Credit: NCBS The American Society of Naturalists (ASN) conferred its prestigious 2018 Presidential Award to evolutionary biologists from the National Centre for Biological Sciences of...
Pesticides give bees a hard time
Credit: Photo: Ricarda Scheiner In February 2018, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) confirmed that the pesticide group of neonicotinoids is harmful to bees. A...
