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Credit: MIPT Press Office A group of researchers from MIPT and Ghent University (Belgium) has developed the first realistic model able to reproduce the complexity...

Parkinson’s severity assessed through drawing

Credit: Courtesy of Dinesh Kumar and Ms. Poonam Zham of the 'Affordable diagnostics' group in RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Researchers in Australia asked volunteers to...

Certara paper shows viral kinetic modeling grows flu knowledge, advances drug development

Certara®, the global leader in model-informed drug development and regulatory science, today announced that its comprehensive influenza viral kinetic modeling review has just been published...

New microscopy method for quick and reliable 3-D imaging of curvilinear nanostructures

Credit: Cécile Hébert/Emad Oveisi/EPFL Physical and biological sciences increasingly require the ability to observe nano-sized objects. This can be accomplished with transmission electron microscop..

UCLA biologists slow aging, extend lifespan of fruit flies

Credit: Nature Communications/Anil Rana UCLA biologists have developed an intervention that serves as a cellular time machine -- turning back the clock on a key...

ERC Starting Grants: 605 million to 406 top researchers across Europe

(European Research Council) The European Research Council has announced today the awarding of its Starting Grants to 406 early-career researchers throughout Europe. The funding, worth...

Will mallards hybridize their cousins out of existence?

Credit: Gary Kramer/USFWS (public domain) Mallards -- the familiar green-headed ducks of city parks -- are one of a group of closely related waterfowl species,...

Investigating the mechanisms of metastasis

Credit: Children's Hospital Los Angeles Cancer metastasis - the spread of disease from the original site to a distant organ - remains a major challenge...

FDG-PET/CT predicts melanoma patients’ response to immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy

Credit: SY Cho, EJ Lipson, H Im, et al., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD RESTON, Va. - Advanced melanoma, a type of...

Outreach interventions improve colorectal cancer screening

Outreach and notification to patients and physicians improved colorectal cancer (CRC) screening among patients who were not up-to-date or nonadherent with CRC screening, according to...

How to implement Advance Care Planning for patients

Credit: Lancaster University Emeritus Professor Sheila Payne from the International Observatory on End of Life Care at Lancaster University helped conduct the study commissioned by...

MIRO trial: 3-year outcomes favor laparoscopic surgery for esophageal cancer

LUGANO-MADRID, 05 September, 2017 - Patients requiring surgery for oesophageal cancer fare better after undergoing a hybrid minimally invasive oesophagectomy (HMIO) compared to an open...

Recurrence of prostate cancer could be reduced thanks to exciting new discovery

Ground breaking research could reduce the recurrence of prostate cancer in males, a new study in the journal Nature Communications reports. During this in depth...

Zika virus could be used to treat brain cancer patients, study suggests

Credit: Zhu et al., 2017 Recent outbreaks of Zika virus have revealed that the virus causes brain defects in unborn children. But in a study...

Team finds way to measure key cell regulator’s activity