Trial shows safety of drugs for irregular heartbeat patients undergoing treatment
A trial led by the University of Birmingham has found that two types of blood thinning drugs are safe to use in patients with an...
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Harvard bioengineers’ biomaterial-based cancer immunotherapies to be developed by Novartis
Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University (BOSTON) - The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard John A. Paulson School...
High consumption of red and processed meat linked to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and insulin resistance
Credit: Journal of Hepatology Amsterdam, March 20, 2018 - World meat consumption has increased during the last decades, and evidence is mounting that high consumption...
Pipe-crawling robot will help decommission DOE nuclear facility
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH--A pair of autonomous robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute will soon be driving through miles of pipes at...
Potential cognitive effects of targeted drugs in children may be reversible with therapy
Bottom Line: Young mice that received molecularly targeted therapies used to treat brain cancer in human patients sustained cognitive and behavioral deficits, but the deficits...
Music therapy aids healing of military personnel
A new paper published in Music Therapy Perspectives examines the importance of music therapy in military healthcare. There has been an increase in music therapy...
Weight loss after stomach-narrowing surgery eases chronic knee pain
A new report finds that extremely obese people who have a band surgically strapped around their stomachs to restrict food intake not only lose weight...
Tamoxifen and raloxifene slow down the progression of muscular dystrophy
Credit: The American Journal of Pathology Philadelphia, March 20, 2018 - Steroids are currently the only available treatment to reduce the repetitive cycles of inflammation...
New Gulf of Maine study investigates return of kelp
Credit: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has been awarded funding from Maine Sea Grant for a new study of kelp...
Five new species of frogs identified in museum collections
Researchers from Yale-NUS College and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences have discovered five new species of Southeast Asian frogs from a group of...
Transcription factor helps tumors grow in low oxygen, resist anticancer therapies
An international team of researchers found how cancer cells respond to DNA damage signaling when in low oxygen, or hypoxia. Through comprehensive gene expression analyses,...
Type 2 Diabetes research held back by animal models
WASHINGTON -- A new report published in Alternatives to Laboratory Animals identifies the limitations of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) animal research and proposes how...
Palm trees are spreading northward — how far will they go?
Credit: Tammo Reichgelt/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory What does it take for palm trees, the unofficial trademark of tropical landscapes, to expand into northern parts of the...
Making intricate images with bacterial communities
Credit: Xiaofan Jin and Ingmar Riedel-Kruse Working with light and genetically engineered bacteria, researchers from Stanford University are able to shape the growth of bacterial...
Scientists discover new causes of cellular decline in prematurely aging kids
Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS -- In a recent paper published in Cell Reports, Saint Louis University researchers have uncovered new answers about why...
