Penn-led research elucidates genetics behind Salmonella’s host…
It's called bird flu for a reason. Particular characteristics about the influenza virus known as H5N1 allow it to primarily affect avifauna, though in some...
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Steering an enzyme’s ‘scissors’ shows potential for…
Credit: UBC Faculty of Medicine The old real estate adage about "location, location, location" might also apply to the biochemical genesis of Alzheimer's disease, according...
Your brain on exercise
Credit: Courtesy Photo It's universally accepted that the benefits of exercise go well beyond fitness, from reducing the risk of disease to improving sleep and...
$11.5 million program project aims to combat malaria drug resistance
Credit: courtesy of Texas Biomed San Antonio, Texas (Sept. 20, 2017) – Texas Biomedical Research Institute researchers, Dr. Tim Anderson and Dr. Ian Cheeseman, have...
Cebit 2017: Computational biologists predict antibiotic resistances…
Credit: Curetis The researchers will be presenting their rapid test procedures, and their outlook for the future, at Stand E28 at the Cebit computer trade...
ASTRO issues guideline for use of stereotactic radiation in…
Credit: American Society for Radiation Oncology/Adam Donohue ARLINGTON, Va., June 12, 2017 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) issued a new clinical guideline...
IU biologists report method to calculate lifetime energy requirements of cells, genes
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — In a recently published paper, Indiana University biologists have calculated the lifetime energy requirements of multiple types of cells, as well as...
In defense of pathogenic proteins
IMAGE: Scientists found in yeast cells protein aggregates (light green spots). As cells age and divide, these aggregates become more frequent (micrograph). Credit: ETH Zurich...
Zika virus challenges for neuropsychiatry recently published by Dove…
A new study, published in the Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment journal, examines this by critically reviewing the literature. The Zika virus is an arbovirus spread...
Researchers develop technology enabling standard cameras to produce hyperspectral images
Credit: Ben-Gurion U. BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL…September 13, 2017 – Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed miniaturized hyperspectral technology as an add-on for...
Dulling cancer therapy’s double-edged sword
Credit: Journal of Experimental Medicine/Sulciner et al. Researchers have discovered that killing cancer cells can actually have the unintended effect of fueling the proliferation of...
Protein transport channel offers new target for thwarting pathogen
Luiz Bermudez, a professor in OSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine Credit: Karl Maasdam CORVALLIS, Ore. – A bacterium that attacks people suffering from chronic lung...
Mosquito sex protein could provide key to controlling disease
Credit: Photo by Alex Wild If you thought the sex lives of humans were complicated, consider the case of the female Aedes aegypti mosquito, bringer...
Study suggests handwashing compliance in child care facilities is insufficient
Credit: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology Arlington, VA, November 29, 2016 – Child care personnel properly clean their hands less than a...
Ancient skulls shed light on migration in the Roman empire
Credit: NC State University Skeletal evidence shows that, hundreds of years after the Roman Republic conquered most of the Mediterranean world, coastal communities in what...
