BU researcher receives grant to better understand lymphoblastic leukemia
(Boston)--Hui Feng, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology and medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), is the recipient of a four-year, $792,000 grant...
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Moffitt researchers discover new targets for approved cancer drug
TAMPA, Fla. (Oct. 10, 2017) - Developing new drugs to treat cancer can be a painstaking process taking over a decade from start to Food...
International experts describe a new way of cells behaving when submitted to chemotherapy
(University of Seville) The experts indicate a new way via which cells can respond to chemotherapy. This knowledge has to help constitute the basis for...
In global first, Penn using glowing tumor dye to identify cancerous lymph nodes
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Surgeons at Penn Medicine are using a fluorescent dye that makes cancerous cells glow in hopes of identifying suspicious lymph...
Areas of glioblastoma tumors correlate with separate subtypes of glioma stem cells
CLEVELAND -- A new study published in the Oct. 9 issue of the journal Nature Medicine demonstrates, for the first time, that glioblastoma (GBM), the...
P53 ‘master switch’ remains top target in gene signaling network controlling cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center There are two important categories of genes involved in cancer development, oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. When oncogenes gain...
RIT to develop hybrid biological cell separations technology for lab-on-chip devices
Research being done at Rochester Institute of Technology to refine lab-on-chip devices--highly sophisticated laboratories on microchips--will provide more detailed and timely information to detect dis..
Research reveals how rabies can induce frenzied behavior
Credit: Illustration by Meghan Murphy. Scientists may finally understand how the rabies virus can drastically change its host's behavior to help spread the disease, which...
Solar flux: From bug to feature
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory: Ivanpah solar flux measurement Excess solar flux could be harnessed and used to generate additional electricity at a tower CSP plant,...
Hibernating ribosomes help bacteria survive
Credit: Saint Louis University / Ellen Hutti ST. LOUIS -- In the second of two high-profile articles published in recent weeks, Saint Louis University scientist...
New smell test could aid early detection of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
Nisha Pradhan was seven when she began to suspect she was missing out on something. Her sister seemed to have an uncanny knack for predicting...
TB Alliance moves two novel tuberculosis drugs into human trials
GUADALAJARA (10 October, 2017) -- TBA-7371 and sutezolid entered phase 1 clinical trials, TB Alliance announced today. Both compounds have proceeded through early preclinical development...
When the brain’s wiring breaks
Credit: N/A Among all the bad things that can happen to the brain when it is severely jolted - in a car accident, for example...
Fighting sickle cell disease by looking back to infancy
Credit: Sarah Pack Fast-track research focused on developing a new gene-modifying sickle cell disease treatment at the Medical University of South Carolina could lead to...
Kent State professor works with NASA Glenn & others to improve Lake Erie’s water quality
Credit: Photo credit: Sunny Dickerson, Bowling Green State University The conditions in Lake Erie continue to pose several health risks to Ohioans in coastal communities,...
