The ups and downs of transportation within cells
Credit: Image by Yuri Nakamura, Hiroshima University. How do cells avoid growing topsy-turvy? Growing so your top, front, bottom and back all wind up on...
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Penn engineers develop $2 portable Zika test
University of Pennsylvania engineers have developed a rapid, low-cost genetic test for the Zika virus. The $2 testing device, about the size of a soda...
IU and Regenstrief studying decreasing dementia after delirium for…
Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS – Researchers from the Indiana University Center for Aging Research and the Regenstrief Institute are developing and testing the nation's first...
Impact of overtraining on the heart to be discussed at cardiovascular…
Sophia Antipolis April 26,2017. The impact of overtraining on the heart is set to be discussed at Europe's leading cardiovascular magnetic resonance meeting, to be...
Mitigation techniques fall short of preventing electrocution of golden…
Credit: EDM International Despite efforts to retrofit power poles and to build new poles to avian-friendly standards, electrocution remains a substantial cause of death for...
Bleed like hell
Credit: Source: Mikhail Panteleev Platelets are small anucleated blood cells responsible for stopping bleeding. They detect blood vessel damage and agglutinate, creating aggregates and stopping...
JIC scientist awarded prestigious 5 year European Research Council starting grant
Credit: The John Innes Centre Dr Diane Saunders an early career scientist at the John Innes Centre (JIC) in partnership with the Earlham Institute has...
Readily available drug cocktail can help prevent sepsis shock and…
Credit: CHEST GLENVIEW, IL, June 26, 2017 – Sepsis presents a major challenge for health care providers, especially in low-income countries where the mortality rate...
Cancer’s gene-determined ‘immune landscape’ dictates progression of…
Credit: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health BOSTON – The field of immunotherapy – the harnessing of patients' own immune systems to fend off...
Too much ‘noise’ can affect brain development
Irvine, Calif., April 15, 2016 — Using cutting-edge imaging technology, University of California, Irvine biologists have determined that uncontrolled fluctuations (known at "noise) in the...
This spiny slug blazed a trail for snails
Credit: Esben Horn/10 Tons New Haven, Conn. – Reach back far enough in the family tree of a snail or a clam and you'll find...
‘Smart’ immune cells: Emerging cancer therapy research boosted with NIH award
Credit: Collins lab, UC Davis Assistant Professor Sean Collins, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences, has received...
Researchers report first known case of CTE in patient with no known head trauma
Credit: UHN Toronto – Researchers at Toronto Western Hospital's Canadian Concussion Centre (CCC) have discovered the presence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in the brain...
Your microbiota’s previous dining experiences may make new diets…
Credit: Griffin et al. / Cell Host & Microbe Your microbiota may not be on your side as you try improving your diet this New...
Study: Negative body image, not depression, increases adolescent obesity risk
HOUSTON – (Nov. 6, 2015) – Negative body image significantly increases the risk of obesity regardless of whether youth have depression, according to researchers at...
