Blood test to detect DNA fragments shed from colon cancers predicts disease’s recurrence
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and University of Melbourne report they have used a genetic test that spots bits of cancer-related DNA...
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Vanderbilt researchers to study breast cancer in African American women
A cancer research consortium headed by investigators at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) and two other institutions, today received $12 million in federal funding to help...
Researchers and farmers collaborate to prevent E. coli
Credit: Photo by Rebekah Mosci, a co-author of the study. EAST LANSING, Mich. — A collaborative Michigan State University study involving microbiologists, epidemiologists, animal scientists,...
Researchers begin promising malaria vaccine trial in Burkina Faso
Malaria is one of the world’s deadliest diseases: it infects hundreds of millions of people every year, and kills about half a million, most of...
BU researcher awarded grant to better understand breast cancer
(Boston)– Why do African-American women die at a higher rate and experience more aggressive breast tumors than white women? Researchers from Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology...
Army researchers team with Sanofi Pasteur to co-develop a Zika virus vaccine
SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) announces a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement for the development of a Zika...
Study sheds light on role of mutations in metastasized cancer
Approximately 95 percent of cancer mortality is caused by metastasis. This fact is what motivates many cancer researchers to focus on finding new ways to...
New microfluidic device offers means for studying electric field cancer therapy
Researchers at MIT’s research center in Singapore have developed a new microfluidic device that tests the effects of electric fields on cancer cells. They observed...
Why do aged muscles heal slowly?
Baltimore, MD– As we age, the function and regenerative abilities of skeletal muscles deteriorate, which means it is difficult for the elderly to recover from...
Pasta is not fattening, quite the opposite
In recent years pasta gained a bad reputation: it will fatten you. This led lots of people to limit its consumption, often as part of...
New detection method paves the way for 100 percent detection of esophageal cancer
Recognizing the early stages of esophageal cancer is difficult because it can easily be missed. TU Eindhoven has therefore been working with the Catharina Hospital...
Engineers design programmable RNA vaccines
“This nanoformulation approach allows us to make vaccines against new diseases in only seven days, allowing the potential to deal with sudden outbreaks or make...
Seeing RNA at the nanoscale
Cells contain thousands of messenger RNA molecules, which carry copies of DNA’s genetic instructions to the rest of the cell. MIT engineers have now developed...
Anti-anxiety medication limits empathetic behavior in rats
Rats given midazolam, an anti-anxiety medication, were less likely to free trapped companions because the drug lessened their empathy, according to a new study by...
Four newly-identified genes could improve rice
A Japanese research team have applied a method used in human genetic analysis to rice and rapidly discovered four new genes that are potentially significant...
