Artificial blood vessels mimic rare accelerated aging disease
Credit: Progeria Research Foundation DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers have grown miniature human blood vessels that exhibit many of the symptoms and drug reactions associated...
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Prematurity leaves distinctive molecular signature in infants’ cerebellum
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON - Premature birth, which affects one in 10 U.S. babies, is associated with altered metabolite profiles in the infants'...
Plant-produced polio vaccines could help eradicate age old disease
Credit: Dimond Light Source & Oxford University Plants have been used to produce a new vaccine against poliovirus in what is hoped to be a...
New genomic insights reveal a surprising two-way journey for apple on the Silk Road
Credit: Alexa M Schmitz/Yang Bai Centuries ago, the ancient networks of the Silk Road facilitated a political and economic openness between the nations of Eurasia....
Artificial intelligence and blockchain companies partner to advance healthcare research
Credit: Insilico Medicine, Inc. Tuesday, 15th of August, 2017, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, Inc, a Baltimore-based next-generation artificial intelligence company today announced a research...
Precision medicine opens the door to scientific wellness preventive approaches to suicide
Credit: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS - Researchers have developed a more precise way of diagnosing suicide risk, by developing blood tests that work...
Understanding alternative reasons for denying climate change could help bridge divide
Credit: US Army Corps of Engineers Mainstream criticism of people who deny climate change essentially portrays climate skeptics as being out of touch, ignorant or...
Development of local food systems help bridge gap among people with different views
One of the major barriers that environmentalists face in trying to implement sustainable practices is getting disparate groups to agree on what needs protecting and...
An immune signaling pathway for control of Yellow Fever Virus infection
Credit: Florian Douam and Alexander Ploss Princeton University researchers have uncovered a critical role for a new immune signaling pathway in controlling infection by the...
Unique imaging of a dinosaur’s skull tells evolutionary tale
Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Aug. 15, 2017- - Researchers using Los Alamos' unique neutron-imaging and high-energy X-ray capabilities have exposed the...
Clinical trial uses a genetically engineered virus to fight cancer
Credit: Sanford Health SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Sanford Health is the first site in the United States to launch a clinical trial using a genetically-engineered...
Older cancer patients rate own physical abilities as better than their caregivers do
Older cancer patients and their caregivers often differ in their assessment of the patient's physical abilities, with caregivers generally rating the patient's physical function as...
‘Acidic patch’ regulates access to genetic information
Credit: Courtesy of Nature Chromatin remodelers -- protein machines that pack and unpack chromatin, the tightly wound DNA-protein complex in cell nuclei -- are essential...
Cancer-fighting T cells are smarter, stronger than experts thought
Credit: Yinnian Feng/Vanderbilt University Scientists studying the body's cancer-fighting T cells have a serious problem: When they culture them in the lab, the T cells...
New cancer diagnosis may come with risk of thromboembolism
WASHINGTON (Aug. 14, 2017) -- Patients newly diagnosed with cancer may have a substantially increased short-term risk of arterial thromboembolism, according to a study published...
