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(Lancaster University) A Lancaster University physicist has been awarded a £1.4M EPSRC Career Fellowship over five years.Dr Dmitry Zmeev is a member of the Lancaster...

C-Path and CDISC announce public review period for Duchenne Therapeutic Area Standard

TUCSON, Ariz., and AUSTIN, Texas - June 13, 2017 - The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) and Critical Path Institute (C-Path) announce the availability...

Spying on fish love calls could help protect them from overfishing

Credit: Jenna Luecke/Univ. of Texas at Austin About a third of the world's fish stocks are being overfished, meaning they're being harvested faster than they...

Mosquito-killing fungi engineered with spider and scorpion toxins could help fight malaria

Credit: Brian Lovett Malaria kills nearly half a million people every year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In some of the hardest-hit areas...

Autism risk linked to fever during pregnancy

Fever during pregnancy may raise the risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the child, according to a study led by scientists at the Center...

What makes a mother risk her life to protect her children

Credit: Shira Lottem/ Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown From birds to mammals, from fish to reptiles, the immediate reaction to an impending threat to the...

Study shows pharmacists knew more about penicillin allergy than MDs

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (June 13, 2017 - 12:01 am ET) - If you have gone through life avoiding certain antibiotics because you think you're allergic...

A SMARTer way to discover new stroke treatments

Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A sequential multiple assignment randomized (SMART) trial allows researchers to test two hypotheses at once. The new trial...

New technology enables effective simultaneous testing for multiple blood-borne pathogens

Credit: Thermo Fisher Scientific Philadelphia, PA, June 13, 2017 - The emergence of new pathogens like West Nile Virus, Ebola, Dengue, and Zika, threaten human...

‘Big Food’ companies have less power than you might think

A Dartmouth study finds that "Big Food" companies are striving to make food more sustainable from farm to factory but have less power than you...

Where cigarette smoking’s damage is done… down to your DNA

Credit: Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga (UNC Health Care) Scientists have known for decades that smoking cigarettes causes DNA damage, which leads to lung cancer. Now, for the...

New cancer drug makes commonly prescribed chemo drug more effective when given together

GALVESTON, Texas - Researchers have found a way to increase the effectiveness of a widely used cancer drug while decreasing the risk of heart-damaging side...

Targeted radionuclide treatment for neuroendocrine tumors improves quality of life

DENVER, Colo. - Malignant neuroendocrine tumors, commonly called NETs, are easy to miss and associated with discouraging survival rates and poor quality of life. A...

Personalized PRRT improves radiation delivery to neuroendocrine tumors

Credit: Michela Del Prete and colleagues, CHU de Québec - Université Laval Denver, Colo. - Neuroendocrine cancer is exceedingly difficult to manage and unlikely to...

Researchers find cellular sweet spot in skin-cancer battle