Early exposure to excess hormone causes genital defects in females
University of Florida researchers have identified cells targeted by a male hormone and found that an excess of that hormone at a specific time can...
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UMass Amherst Environmental Health researcher honored for ‘irritating’ science
Credit: courtesy Pablo Robles, Media Compass Photography AMHERST, Mass. - The Cornell Douglas Foundation, an environmental health and justice advocacy group based in Bethesda, Md.,...
NCI grant funds SMU research into cancer-causing viruses that hide from the immune system
Credit: (SMU Harrod lab) SMU virologist and cancer researcher Robert L. Harrod has been awarded a $436,500 grant from the National Cancer Institute to further...
UTHealth receives NIH grant to develop individualized therapies for cocaine addiction
HOUSTON - (Nov. 7, 2016) - Identifying more effective treatment strategies tailored to individual responses for patients overcoming addiction to cocaine is the focus of...
Quality of life in late life can be good
An analysis of patients' physical, functional, emotional and social quality of life trajectories over the last 18 months of life as they live with serious...
The fate of Neanderthal genes
The Neanderthals disappeared about 30,000 years ago, but little pieces of them live on in the form of DNA sequences scattered through the modern human...
People power: Technology allows smartphone-based water testing
Credit: University of Houston Ever wondered what's in the neighborhood pond? Technology developed by researchers at the University of Houston will allow you to test...
The process of DNA packaging in cell nucleus revealed
Credit: Igor Kireev Scientists from the Lomonosov Moscow State University in collaboration with their colleagues from the USA have conducted a research on DNA packaging...
David Julius to receive the 2017 HFSP Nakasone Award
The Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) has announced that the 2017 HFSP Nakasone Award has been awarded to David Julius of the University of...
Tumors reprogram the liver, causing wasting and short-circuiting body’s immune response
Cold Spring Harbor, NY - One of the worst cruelties of lethal cancer is the phenomenon called wasting, or in medical terms, cachexia (pronounced ka-CHEX-ia),...
Weight loss condition provides insight into failure of cancer immunotherapies
A weight loss condition that affects patients with cancer has provided clues as to why cancer immunotherapy - a new approach to treating cancer by...
McMaster scientists discover autism gene slows down brain cell communication
Hamilton, ON (Nov. 8, 2016) - Scientists at McMaster University's Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute in collaboration with Sick Children's Hospital have discovered genetic...
The messenger in Huntington’s disease
(Center for Genomic Regulation) A research effort led by Eulà lia Martà at the Centre for Genomic Regulation reveals new molecular mechanisms of Huntington's chorea. The...
Decoding the genome of the Japanese morning glory
Credit: NIBB Researchers in Japan have successfully decoded the entire Japanese morning glory genome. Japanese morning glories (Ipomoea nil) are traditional garden plants that are...
Species of giant cockroaches employ different strategies in the mating game
New research suggests that even in the insect world, males must adopt different strategies to win females, depending on their particular physical prowess. It has...
