Longest-living animal gives up ocean climate secrets
A study of the longest-living animal on Earth, the quahog clam, has provided researchers with an unprecedented insight into the history of the oceans. By...
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Growing mosquito populations linked to urbanization and DDT’s slow decay
Credit: Ary Faraji Mosquito populations have increased as much as ten-fold over the past five decades in New York, New Jersey, and California, according to...
New application of existing drug offers personalized therapy for lung cancer
Credit: James Hall/Oxford University A subset of lung tumours is exquisitely sensitive to a class of recently approved anti-cancer drugs. Researchers at the CeMM Research...
Brain blocks new memory formation on waking to safeguard consolidation of existing memories
Throughout our waking lives we are exposed to a continuous stream of stimuli and experiences. Some of these experiences trigger the strengthening of connections between...
Federal report recommends teaching self-regulation in schools
Credit: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. A new federal report recommends that schools emphasize building children's "self-regulation" skills in order to increase opportunities f..
Missing 1-2 hours of sleep doubles crash risk
Credit: AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety WASHINGTON, D.C. (Dec. 6, 2016)- Drivers who miss between one to two hours of the recommended seven hours of...
New link discovered between class of rogue autoantibodies and poor health outcomes
Results of a new study led by Johns Hopkins researchers offer new evidence for a strong link between angiotensin receptor autoantibodies and increased risk of...
Social eating leads to overeating, especially among men
Credit: Daniel Miller Gorging at a holiday meal or friend's BBQ might have more to do with your ego than the quality of the food...
Advances in multiple myeloma, lymphoma and other hematologic malignancies presented at ASH
CLEVELAND: Researchers from University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine presented significant new research findings in multiple myeloma, lymphoma...
Combination immune therapy shows promise against Hodgkin lymphoma
The combination of two new drugs that harness the body's immune system is safe and effective, destroying most cancer cells in 64 percent of patients...
Immunotherapy agent yields full and partial remissions in aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphomas
SAN DIEGO, CA ¬- An immunotherapy drug able to induce lasting remissions in classical Hodgkin lymphoma may be equally effective in patients with either of...
Early treatment may prevent progression to multiple myeloma
SAN DIEGO, CA - Early intervention with an immunotherapy-based drug combination may prevent progression of high-risk "smoldering" multiple myeloma to the full-blown disease, according to...
Mutations in lymphoma patients undergoing transplants raise risk of second cancers
SAN DIEGO, CA - A significant percentage of lymphoma patients undergoing transplants with their own blood stem cells carry acquired genetic mutations that increase their...
Immunotherapy shows promise in preventing leukemia relapse
SEATTLE - Dec. 5, 2016 - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center announced promising results from an early trial in which patients with high-risk acute myeloid...
Cancer drug may cause women to grow new eggs, study suggests
Credit: University of Edinburgh Women treated with a common chemotherapy drug combination have more young eggs in their ovaries afterwards, research has found. A small...
