Risk-reducing mastectomy questioned for BRCA mutation carriers with prior ovarian cancer
Mutations in the BRCA gene correspond to a higher lifetime risk of developing breast and ovarian cancers, and many women who carry these mutations consider...
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Squeezing innovation out of the NASA Twins study: Pipetting and cell isolation in space
Credit: NASA Just like early explorers, NASA Twins Study investigators are venturing into new territory. Conducting human omics research on twin astronauts as part of...
Artificial intelligence to uncover human biases
Credit: Insilico Medicine Since 2015 artificially-intelligent systems surpassed human accuracy in many tasks including image recognition, voice recognition, autonomous driving and strategy games s..
Neural stem cells steered by electric fields in rat brain
Credit: Junfeng Feng Electric fields can be used to guide neural stem cells transplanted into the brain towards a specific location. The research, published July...
How dragon blood could save your life (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, July 11, 2017 -- Chemists have found potential drugs and other really useful compounds in some truly bizarre places...
In rats that can’t control glutamate, cocaine is less rewarding, staving off relapse
Credit: Zheng-Xiong Xi and Lauren Brick Rats missing a neuroreceptor that controls the release of the neurotransmitter glutamate are less amenable to the rewarding effects...
Eye microbiome trains immune cells to fend off pathogens
Credit: Rachel Caspi and Anthony St. Leger Bugs in your eyes may be a good thing. Resident microbes living on the eye are essential for...
Antibiotics taken late in pregnancy can increase risk for IBD in offspring
A study by researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine shows that when mice that are genetically susceptible to developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) were...
Key immunological mechanism for regulating intestinal flora discovered
Credit: Jose Cano Researchers at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) have shown for the first time that immunoglobulin M, secreted by the...
Tulane University awarded $12 million to create Lassa vaccine and treatment
Credit: (Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano) The National Institutes of Health has awarded Tulane University more than $12 million to test a promising drug treatment against...
Prosthetic knee type may determine cost of care for amputees
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- In a new study published in Prosthetics and Orthotics International, Mayo Clinic researchers describe the direct medical costs of falls in adults...
Marine vessels are unsuspecting hosts of invasive species
Invasive ascidians -- sac-like marine invertebrate filter feeders -- are nuisance organisms that present a global threat. They contribute to biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation and...
Better than Star Wars: Chemistry discovery yields 3-D table-top objects crafted from light
Credit: (SMU) A scientist's dream of 3-D projections like those he saw years ago in a Star Wars movie has led to new technology for...
UMass Amherst biologist hopes to unlock secrets of flowers’ diversity
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - There are at least 250,000 species of flowering plants on earth and though their flowers can look radically different,...
Researchers to develop new gene-editing method for the study of arthropods
Credit: Rasgon Lab, Penn State A grant from the National Science Foundation will enable a Penn State-led team of entomologists to develop and disseminate a...
