New implantable VAD for severe heart failure in kids shows encouraging results in sheep
The number of children with severe heart failure is increasing. Over the last decade, ventricular assist devices (VADs) have become the standard of care in...
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Blocking known cancer driver unexpectedly reveals a new tumor-promoting pathway
While investigating a potential therapeutic target for the ERK1 and 2 pathway, a widely expressed signaling molecule known to drive cancer growth in one third...
HIV vaccine design should adapt as HIV virus mutates
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Human immunodeficiency virus is known to be a highly variable virus that adapts to a person’s immune response during the lifetime infection,...
NIH-funded study reveals how differences in male and female brains emerge
Nematode worms may not be from Mars or Venus, but they do have sex-specific circuits in their brains that cause the males and females to...
Rare human disease found in dogs
EAST LANSING, Mich. – A rare, severe form of pulmonary hypertension, which up until now, has only been classified as a human lung disease, has...
Scientists find that cancer can arise from changes in the proteins that package DNA
A mutation that affects the proteins that package DNA–without changing the DNA itself–can cause a rare form of cancer, according to new findings in this...
Lung cancer “breathalyzer” wins $100K Entrepreneurship Competition
A team of MIT and Harvard University students who invented a smartphone-connected sensor that detects lung cancer from a single breath took home the grand...
Ingestible robot operates in simulated stomach
Credit: Melanie Gonick/MIT In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute...
NIH-led team discovers new HIV vaccine target
A team led by scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reported a research trifecta. They discovered a new vulnerable site on HIV...
Gene regulatory mutation linked to rare childhood cancer
MADISON, Wis. — A single defect in a gene that codes for a histone — a “spool” that wraps idle DNA — is linked to...
An old new weapon against emerging Chikungunya virus
Since 2013, the mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus has spread rapidly through South America and the Caribbean, and is now threatening Southern Europe and the southern US....
Breast cancer drug found to reduce seizures
A class of drug that inhibits estrogen production and is used to treat breast cancer has been found to quickly and effectively suppress dangerous brain...
Crowd-augmented cognition
Credit: Aniket Kittur, Carnegie Mellon University Crowdsourcing has brought us Wikipedia and ways to understand how HIV proteins fold. It also provides an increasingly effective...
New device developed at UBC could improve cancer detection
A new UBC-developed method to isolate cancer cells that have escaped from a tumour could soon pave the way for improved diagnosis and treatment. The...
Stem cells from diabetic patients coaxed to become insulin-secreting cells
Signaling a potential new approach to treating diabetes, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Harvard University have produced insulin-secreting cells...
