UTEP team advances in developing vaccine for cutaneous leishmaniasis
Credit: J.R. Hernandez/UTEP Communications A research team at The University of Texas at El Paso is one step closer to developing an effective human vaccine...
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Hot spots of marine biodiversity most severely impacted by global warming
Credit: F. Ramírez, I. Afán, L. S. Davis and A. Chiaradia A new study aimed at identifying areas of highest conservation priority in the world's...
Sanofi and the Institut Pasteur reward five researchers in the service of human health
Credit: Jeffrey Gordon: (c) James Byard – Washington University Antonio Lanzavecchia: (c) Alessandro Crinari Michel Nussenzweig: (c) Mario Morgado – The Rockfeller University François Leulier:...
New findings detail structure of immature Zika virus
Credit: (Purdue University image courtesy of Kuhn and Rossmann research groups) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers at Purdue University have determined the high-resolution structure of...
Antibiotics warranted for kids with minor staph infections
Credit: Washington University School of Medicine The overuse of antibiotics has left some doctors questioning whether to give such drugs to children diagnosed with uncomplicated...
Power outage in the brain may be source of Alzheimer’s
Credit: Courtesy: Kelvinsong On Nov. 25, 1901, a 51-year-old woman is admitted to a hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, displaying a bizarre constellation of symptoms. Her...
3-D footage of nematode brains links neurons with motion and behavior
Princeton University researchers have captured among the first recordings of neural activity in nearly the entire brain of a free-moving animal. The three-dimensional recordings could...
Study finds testosterone supplementation reduces heart attack risk in…
A new multi-year study from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City shows that testosterone therapy helped elderly men with low testosterone...
New book on The Cytoskeleton from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: The specimen was prepared and imaged by Rosmarie Suetterlin and Cora-Ann Schoenenberger at the Maurice E. Muller Institute for Structural Biology (Ueli Aebi, head),...
Vanderbilt clinical trial to assess treatments for rotator cuff tears
Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nitin Jain, M.D., MSPH, associate professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Orthopaedics, has been awarded a $7.5 million contract...
Model helps identify drugs to treat cat eye infections
It's a problem veterinarians see all the time, but there are few treatments. Feline herpes virus 1 (FHV-1) is a frequent cause of eye infections...
Andalusian scientists reconstruct what the Gibraltar Arc was like 9 million years ago
Credit: NASA A team of Andalusian scientists, led by the University of Granada (UGR), has been able to reconstruct for the first time what the...
Are transgender individuals fit to serve in the military?
New Rochelle, NY, February 16, 2016–A new study shows that transgender active-duty U.S. military personnel report few lifetime mental and physical health problems. These findings...
Interactions between simple molecular mechanisms give rise to complex…
Credit: IST Austria/Maroš Pleška When we think of bacteria, images of nasty infections like pneumonia, meningitis or food poisoning come to mind, but bacteria can...
Medical imaging innovator Christine Hendon wins Presidential honor
Credit: Jeffrey Schifman/Columbia Engineering Christine Hendon, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has won the Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE), the highes..
