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...
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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...
Antibodies to dengue may alter course of Zika virus infection
Scientists at Emory Vaccine Center, in collaboration with investigators from Thailand, have found that people infected with dengue virus develop antibodies that cross-react with Zika...
Dr. Dobryakova of Kessler Foundation researches effect of feedback on cognitive fatigue
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ – January 18, 2018 – Ekaterina Dobryakova, PhD, research scientist in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Research at Kessler Foundation,...
From mother to child, passing on disease
IMAGE: UI researchers are reminding US doctors to watch for two vector-borne and potentially life-threatening diseases — Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis — that can be...
Nixing the cells that nix immune response against cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Some cells excite the immune system. Others soothe it. Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are one type of soothing cell,...
Physical activity could combat fatigue, cognitive decline in cancer survivors
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new study indicates that cancer patients and survivors have a ready weapon against fatigue and...
Researchers find the genes responsible for motor and vocal tics in children
Credit: MIPT's Press Office An international research team including Vasiliy Ramensky, a member of the MIPT Life Sciences Center, has unraveled genetic characteristics that increase...
Forging new defenses against Diabetic Kidney Disease
Credit: John Soares/Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON – (April 24, 2017) – More than 660,000 people in the United States suffer from end-stage kidney disease, which...
Inflammatory disease trigger revealed
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Institute scientists have revealed a potent inflammatory molecule released by dying cells triggers inflammation during necroptosis,...
On Target Laboratories secures $40 million financing led by Johnson & Johnson…
Credit: On Target Laboratories image On Target Laboratories Inc., a privately held biotechnology company that is developing tumor-targeted fluorescent dyes to improve cancer surgery, has...
