New fund to advance commercialization at University of Utah
Credit: Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah The Center for Technology & Venture Commercialization at the University of Utah announced a new funding program for...
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Study reveals challenges of menstrual hygiene management in emergencies
May 9, 2018 -- Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health with colleagues at the International Rescue Committee and 27 humanitarian organizations and...
Red Sea fungus yields leads for new epilepsy drugs
New treatments for epilepsy are sorely needed because current medications don't work for many people with the disease. To find new leads, researchers have now...
Mass vaccinations will not prevent Ebolavirus outbreaks, new research shows
Prophylactic mass vaccination programmes are not a realistic option in the battle to prevent new Ebolavirus outbreaks, a University of Kent-led research team has shown....
Study may help explain racial disparities in prostate cancer
New research published in Molecular Oncology may help explain why African American men are at a higher risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer and...
New gene therapy sparks healthy heart beats
ITHACA, N.Y. - The most common and potentially lethal complication following a heart attack is the heart's inability to do one of its most basic...
New CAR T case study shows promise in acute myeloid leukemia
TAMPA, Fla. - Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell therapy, also known as CAR T therapy, was named the biggest research breakthrough of 2017 by the American...
Axial reports findings of elevated 4-EPS in children with ASD
BOSTON and Pasadena, Calif., May 9, 2018 - Axial Biotherapeutics, a biotechnology company building a unique class of microbial-inspired therapeutics for neurological diseases, today announced...
£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....
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...
