Prostate cancer cells become ‘shapeshifters’ to spread to…
Credit: Nature Communications Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists report they have discovered a biochemical process that gives prostate cancer cells the almost unnatural ability...
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Harnessing the body’s immune system to heal wounds naturally
IMAGE: This is a microscopic view of macrophages, immune system cells that are key to blood vessel growth. Credit: Kara Spiller In what could be...
Advances to brain-interface technology provide clearer insight into…
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University engineers and cognitive neuroscientists have demonstrated that a new high-density EEG can capture the brain's neural activity at...
New neuron-like cells allow investigation into synthesis of vital…
Credit: Colleen Mangold, Penn State Neuron-like cells created from a readily available cell line have allowed researchers to investigate how the human brain makes a...
Analysis reveals barriers to routine HIV testing in high-income…
HIV, the AIDS virus (yellow), infecting a human immune cell. Credit: Seth Pincus, Elizabeth Fischer and Austin Athman, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,...
Inflammatory signature of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Credit: Rohit Kohli, MBBS, MS, Children's Hospital Los Angeles A team of investigators led by Rohit Kohli, MBBS, MS, of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, has...
Bad air quality along utah’s wasatch front causes more than 200…
Credit: University of Utah Health SALT LAKE CITY – Air pollution trapped by winter inversions along Utah's Wasatch Front, the state's most populated region, is...
PolyU develops the first food hygiene standard certification system…
Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong is renowned as the culinary capital of Asia, with local catering establishments of unique styles providing great...
Ambush in a petri dish
Credit: Jan-Peter Kasper/FSU It is a gruesome spectacle that meets the eyes of Prasad Aiyar as he looks down the microscope. The doctoral candidate from...
Queen’s University Belfast research could see exercise as a prescribed medicine
Queen’s University Belfast are taking part in a global trial to test whether exercise should be prescribed to treat patients with advanced prostate cancer. The...
UCLA receives $5 million grant for sharing research on AIDS and…
Credit: Enrique Rivero/UCLA The National Institute on Drug Abuse has awarded $5 million to researchers at UCLA to develop a resource and data center for...
Novel antibacterial wound cover could prevent thousands of infections…
Credit: Pixabay Amsterdam, May 1, 2017 – A new type of wound dressing could improve thousands of people's lives, by preventing them from developing infections....
Study provides new guidelines for assessing severity of head and neck…
Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES – Jan. 24, 2018 – Cedars-Sinai investigators have developed a new, more accurate set of guidelines for assessing the severity of...
Mexico sees heart failure improvements with diet and exercise
Acapulco, Mexico 21 Nov. 2015: Doctors in Mexico have shown the benefits of a healthy diet and exercise in patients with heart failure, in research...
Researchers call for hospitals to establish bereavement programs
Backed by a growing body of research, investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are calling for all hospitals to establish bereavement programs for families of deceased...
