Key takeaways: Extracellular vesicle ARMMs carry receptors that allow signaling without direct contact between cells. Researchers hope to engineer ARMMs to send therapeutics directly to...
Credit: M. Lynch Vocal communication is central to the lives of many birds, which use sound to attract mates and defend territories. Penguins are no...
Credit: J. Livaudais Populations of many North American songbirds are declining, and in many cases we don't understand why--for example, whether the problem lies with...
Credit: Velizar Simeonovski, The Field Museum Remember the movie The Princess Bride, when the characters debate the existence of R.O.U.S.es (Rodents of Unusual Size), only...
COLUMBUS, Ohio - MGMT promoter methylation status -- information gathered at a DNA-level -- can help predict overall survival for patients with a rare form...
Credit: Dr. Cecil Fox, National Cancer Institute TUCSON, Ariz. - A study by scientists at the University of Arizona and the University of Pittsburgh may...
Credit: Fumiko Chino, M.D. SAN DIEGO, September 26, 2017 - A new study finds that Medicaid expansion enacted as part of the Patient Protection and...
Credit: Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- States that fully expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act cut their rates of uninsured cancer patients...
MAYWOOD, IL - Loyola Medicine physicians have proposed a simple new system to improve the reporting of robotic surgeries performed by surgeons in training. The...
The Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF) and PLOS ONE are collaborating on a new funding program in the area of neurofibromatosis (NF) research. The new initiative,...
Credit: University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center Society of Surgical Oncology, National Institutes of Health, A Sister's Hope Foundation, Saslow Family ANN ARBOR, Michigan --...
New York, NY (September 22, 2017) - Oxford University Press (OUP) is partnering with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) as they launch their Emergency...
(Boston)--Julie Palmer, ScD, associate director of Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center, professor of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health, and associate director fo..
Credit: University of Huddersfield CANCER is on the rise and the need to be empathetic when giving a patient their diagnosis and throughout treatment is...
Precision medicine, which custom-tailors therapies to the needs of individual patients, is becoming more and more important in cancer therapy. Today, molecular-biological diagnostics can precisely...
