Melatonin may help treat blood cancers
Researchers have examined the potential benefits of melatonin, a hormone made by a small gland in the brain, for treating blood cancers such as leukemia...
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Adipose tissue may affect cancer development in multiple ways
Bottom Line: Adipose tissue, or fat, may influence the development of cancer in diverse ways, depending on the type of fat and the location in...
Multi-mechanism approach to treating neonatal hypoxic ischemia
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina. Sarah Pack. Hypothermia alone, the current standard of care, neuroprotects roughly 50 percent of newborns with moderate to severe...
New book on The Biology of Exercise from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: Illustration created by Romain Barres, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen. Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Cold Spring...
Study: Drug may curb female infertility from cancer treatments
Credit: Schimenti Lab, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - An existing drug may one day protect premenopausal women from life-altering infertility that commonly follows cancer treatments,...
Bacteria act as aphrodisiac for the closest relatives of animals
Credit: Arielle Woznica and Nicole King, UC Berkeley To the surprise of scientists, bacteria can act as an aphrodisiac for one-celled marine organisms notable for...
Cleanliness is next to sexiness for golden-collared manakins in Panama
Credit: Ioana Chiver, STRI Imagine proposing in a dirty apartment or restaurant. Juvenile male golden-collared manakins who received extra testosterone were stimulated to clean up...
Scientists identify climatic risks for dengue disease outbreaks
The University of Liverpool is part of an international team of scientists that have identified the climatic risks for dengue disease outbreaks, with a new...
Virus hijacks cell’s transportation system
Credit: Hirano M. et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Aug. 28, 2017 Flaviviruses are a significant...
Electricity production: When enzymes rival platinum
Credit: Ievgen Mazurenko, BIP A fuel cell converts chemical energy into electrical energy via hydrogen combustion. Though it is considered to be a clean technology...
AWI’s underwater robot Tramper successfully recovered
Credit: Alfred Wegener Institute On 27 August 2017, deep-sea researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) recovered the...
Etosis phenomenon discovered in human blood monocytes
A recent study published online in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology found the first clear demonstration of etosis in human blood monocytes, a type of...
Researchers find microbes key to reef survival
Credit: © 2016 Anna Roik Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - : In a paper published in the September 2017 issue of the journal Nature...
Can corals survive climate change?
Credit: G. Torda A group of international scientists, including scientists from Australia, have issued advice that more research is urgently required to determine whether corals...
Mayo Clinic researchers identify genes fueling neuroblastoma spread
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- For the first time, Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues present data on how nervous system tumors, called neuroblastomas, spread. Their paper, published...
