University of Birmingham launches £2million global research project
(University of Birmingham) The University of Birmingham has secured £2 million from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to launch a research group aimed...
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ASHG honors Daniel MacArthur with inaugural Early-Career Award
Credit: courtesy Broad Institute BETHESDA, MD - The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Daniel MacArthur, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Analytic and...
Increased sample size in 2015 survey
Credit: Rob Margetta The National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics has more than doubled the sample size of its 2015 Survey...
New limits to functional portion of human genome reported
Credit: University of Houston An evolutionary biologist at the University of Houston has published new calculations that indicate no more than 25 percent of the...
The end of aging? Targeting the underlying mechanisms for enhancing human healthspan
San Francisco, CA -- The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), http://www.afar.org, the world-renowned non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing healthy aging through biom..
Walking like ants gives spiders a chance
ITHACA, N.Y. - Humans aren't the only actors on the planet. To avoid being eaten, some jumping spiders pretend to be ants, according to Cornell...
Prior dengue infection does not increase Zika disease severity
Individuals who are infected by Zika virus after having dengue fever do not appear to become more severely ill than people with Zika who have...
Decline in financing could undermine malaria efforts
Global malaria elimination funding is declining at a time when it remains crucial to eliminating the disease worldwide, according to a study published in the...
Researchers identify potentially safer substitutes for BPA
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have identified a group of potential substitutes for bisphenol A (BPA) that lack the...
Spark Therapeutics announces publication in The Lancet of pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial data for investigational voretigene neparvovec
Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE), a fully integrated gene therapy company dedicated to challenging the inevitability of genetic disease, today announced The Lancet, a highly ranked...
University of Birmingham launches £7 million global surgical research unit
(University of Birmingham) The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has awarded £7 million to the Universities of Birmingham, Edinburgh and Warwick to establish a...
Multi-million pound grant awarded to improve world slum healthcare
Credit: University of Warwick The University of Warwick is to receive more than £5million to find better ways of delivering healthcare to some of the...
Dementia prevention hopes raised by £1.9m boost to scan study
(University of Edinburgh) Dementia researchers are to receive a £1.9 million investment to identify the earliest brain changes associated with conditions such as Alzheimer's disease.
When life gives you lemons, make bioplastics!
Credit: Public domain From your phone case to airplane windows, polycarbonates are everywhere. Several million tons of polycarbonate are produced every year around the world....
Researchers find first genomic biomarkers in extracellular vesicles in veterinary patients
Credit: Courtesy of Tufts University (July 14, 2017)--Researchers at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University have discovered important biomarkers in extracellular vesicles in...
