Zebrafish study reveals clues to healing spinal cord injuries
Credit: University of Edinburgh Fresh insights into how zebrafish repair their nerve connections could hold clues to new therapies for people with spinal cord injuries....
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CARB-X funding for global scientists racing to discover new antibiotics to treat superbugs
Scientists developing promising new antibiotics in India, Ireland, France, Switzerland, the US and UK are to share up to US$17.6m to speed treatments for the...
Dragonfly brains predict the path of their prey
Credit: David O'Carroll, Lund University New research from Australia and Sweden has shown how a dragonfly's brain anticipates the movement of its prey, enabling it...
Humans imitate in unique ways: Comparing children and bonobos
From an early age, children are very skilled in imitating the actions of others and are so motivated to do so that they will even...
Violent sleep patterns & stress hormones change after a violent crime in the neighborhood
Almost 1.2 million violent crimes - homicide, sexual assault, assault, and robbery - were committed in the United States in 2015, according to the U.S....
NASA encourages kids to Train Like an Astronaut
Credit: Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut Mission X: Train like an Astronaut, since its inception in 2011, has morphed into an international collaboration of...
No gene is an island
Credit: Magdalena Steinrück Genes do not exist in isolation. Like beads on a string, they sit next to each other on long DNA molecules called...
Researchers offer new and novel paradigm for advancing research on beneficial microbes
St. Paul, Minn. (July 2017)--While beneficial microbes are becoming a more common tool in agriculture, their effectiveness in the field is severely blunted thanks to...
Anti-cancer chemotherapeutic agent inhibits glioblastoma growth and radiation resistance
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Glioblastoma is a primary brain tumor with dismal survival rates, even after treatment with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. A small...
Reaching black men in barbershops could lead to early detection of colorectal cancer
Credit: NYU Langone Health Aging black men are at much greater risk of dying prematurely of colorectal cancer than any other group in the United...
Molecular hitchhiker on human protein signals tumors to self-destruct
Credit: Vanderbilt University Powerful molecules can hitch rides on a plentiful human protein and signal tumors to self-destruct, a team of Vanderbilt University engineers found....
New therapeutic approach for difficult-to-treat subtype of ovarian cancer identified
PHILADELPHIA -- (July 24, 2017) -- A potential new therapeutic strategy for a difficult-to-treat form of ovarian cancer has been discovered by Wistar scientists. The...
Researchers develop new method to generate human antibodies
Credit: Sanjuan Nandin et al., 2017 An international team of scientists has developed a method to rapidly produce specific human antibodies in the laboratory. The...
Breast cancer patients can use antiperspirants during radiotherapy
PHILADELPHIA - Women undergoing daily radiation therapy for breast cancer are commonly told they should not use antiperspirant for fear that it could cause greater...
Immune cells the missing ingredient in new bladder cancer treatment
New research offers a possible explanation for why a new type of cancer treatment hasn't been working as expected against bladder cancer. The study finds...
