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...
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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...
Mayo Clinic, nference launch a drug discovery startup
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., and ROCHESTER, Minn. - Today, Mayo Clinic and nference launch a startup company for drug development that will be powered by clinical expertise...
Ecological underpinnings of rural poverty
Credit: Upstream Alliance Deep in landlocked Africa, a miracle is unfolding. Less than a generation after a genocidal civil war left it in ruins, Rwanda...
How protein interactions drive cellular death
Researchers at the Universities of Tübingen and Konstanz, the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the Max Planck Institute of Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, and the German Cancer Research...
The biodiversity data journal Check List joins Pensoft’s open access portfolio
Credit: Check List and Pensoft The well-reputed and established journal Check List is the latest biodiversity-themed title to join scholarly publisher Pensoft's peer-reviewed and open...
FSU researcher makes deep-sea coral reefs discovery in depths of the North-Pacific
Credit: Florida State University TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Scientists have long believed that the waters of the Central and Northeast Pacific Ocean were inhospitable to deep-sea...
FSU researchers discover an ugly truth about attractiveness
Credit: Florida State University In today's appearance-driven world, body image can be a powerful influence on our choices and behaviors, especially related to dieting. That...
