Advancing cancer immunotherapy with computer simulations and data analysis
Credit: NIAID The body has a natural way of fighting cancer – it's called the immune system, and it is tuned to defend our cells...
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Study: Very preterm birth not associated with mood, anxiety disorders
Credit: University of Tennessee, Knoxville KNOXVILLE–Do very-preterm or very-low-weight babies develop anxiety and mood disorders later in life? Julia Jaekel, assistant professor of child and...
ASTRO awards early-career research grants to physician-scientists
Credit: American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 18, 2017 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) is awarding $275,000 in research...
Bullies and their victims more likely to want plastic surgery
Credit: University of Warwick School bullies and their victims are more likely to want plastic surgery than other teens — new University of Warwick research...
Scientists find a role for Parkinson’s gene in the brain
Credit: Image courtesy of Shen lab A new study published in the journal Neuron sheds light on the normal function of LRRK2, the most common...
Research finds midlife women twice as likely as men to have asthma
Credit: Photo courtesy of Vanderbilt University Medical Center In childhood, asthma is more common in boys than girls. But around the time of puberty, that...
Monitoring the rise and fall of the microbiome
The bacterium, Enterococcus faecalis, which lives in the human gut, is just one microbe type that will be studied as part of NIH's Human Microbiome...
Asthma medicine halves risk of Parkinson’s
Credit: Kim E. Andreassen, University of Bergen. By studying the effect of 1000 medicines, researchers discovered that medicine against asthma and blood pressure is linked...
CNS awards Lithuanian professor for the paradigm shift in neurolog
Credit: European Patent Office The paper based on the study undertaken by the team of Lithuanian researchers was bestowed Paper of the Year award by...
Novel PET tracer detects small blood clots
Credit: Piramal Imaging GmbH, Berlin Germany RESTON, Va. ?- Blood clots in veins and arteries can lead to heart attack, stroke, and pulmonary embolism, which...
How cells divide tasks and conquer work
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA–(June 7, 2017) Despite advances in neuroscience, the brain is still very much a black box–no one even knows how many...
WPI researcher wins NSF CAREER Award to study how bacteria survive in stressful conditions
Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. – As a graduate student, Scarlet Shell spent four months in rural and urban clinics in Peru studying...
Guanfacine is safe and well-tolerated in children and adolescents with…
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 1, 2017–A pilot study of guanfacine, a controlled-release alpha2-agonist, in children and adolescents with general,...
Basic microbiology research study unexpectedly uncovers practical…
Credit: The American Phytopathological Soceity St. Paul, Minn. (March 2017)–Cover cropping, or the practice of growing unharvested crops to protect and enrich the soil during...
Follistatin is a key player in embryo implantation
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Looking to improve the success rate of assisted reproductive technologies, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine investigated in more detail...
