New surgical strategy offers hope for repairing spinal injuries
Credit: Thomas Carlstedt and Mårten Risling Scientists in the UK and Sweden previously developed a new surgical technique to reconnect sensory neurons to the spinal...
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Using science to combat illegal wildlife trade
Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - Leading scientists from around the world convened this week at the International Congress for Conservation Biology in...
LSUHealthNO research finds walnuts may promote health by changing gut bacteria
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - Research led by Lauri Byerley, PhD, RD, Research Associate Professor of Physiology at LSU Health New...
‘Missing lead’ in Flint water pipes confirms cause of crisis
ANN ARBOR--A study of lead service lines in Flint's damaged drinking water system reveals a Swiss cheese pattern in the pipes' interior crust, with holes...
Researchers discover how human cells maintain the correct number of chromosomes
Credit: Queen Mary University of London Cell division is an essential process in humans, animals and plants as dying or injured cells are replenished throughout...
Sleep or sex? How the fruit fly decides
Choosing between sex or sleep presents a behavioral quandary for many species, including the fruit fly. A multi-institution team has found that, in Drosophila at...
Cell mechanism discovery could lead to ‘fundamental’ change in leukemia treatment
Researchers have identified a new cell mechanism that could lead to a fundamental change in the diagnosis and treatment of leukaemia. A team in the...
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine faculty receives funding
In the United States, more children are lost to cancer than any other disease, and one in 285 children will be diagnosed before they turn...
Errors made by ‘DNA spellchecker’ revealed as important cause of cancer
Cancer is mostly caused by changes in the DNA of our cells that occur during our lifetime rather than those that we inherit from our...
Long-sought mechanism of metastasis is discovered in pancreatic cancer
Credit: Vakoc Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Cells, just like people, have memories. They retain molecular markers that at the beginning of their...
Cancer-death button gets jammed by gut bacterium
ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- Researchers at Michigan Medicine and in China showed that a type of bacterium is associated with the recurrence of colorectal cancer...
Researchers release first draft of a genome-wide cancer ‘dependency map’
Credit: Tom Ulrich In one of the largest efforts to build a comprehensive catalog of genetic vulnerabilities in cancer, researchers from the Broad Institute of...
Glowing tumor technology helps surgeons remove hidden cancer cells
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Surgeons were able to identify and remove a greater number of cancerous nodules from lung cancer patients when combining intraoperative...
New SU2C-Lustgarten Foundation team aims to apply CAR T-cell therapy to pancreatic cancer
PHILADELPHIA - July 27, 2017 - Stand Up To Cancer is supporting a new translational research team to explore how a type of immunotherapy that...
Blocking the back-door that cancer cells use to escape death by radiotherapy
Credit: Melissa Fabrizio (Edmonton) A natural healing mechanism of the body may be reducing the efficiency of radiotherapy in breast cancer patients, according to a...
