Smart bomb virus shows promise as brain tumor immunotherapy
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center A common cold virus engineered to attack the most common and deadly of brain tumors allowed 20 percent of patients...
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New guide for finding genes linked with behavior
Credit: Kathleen Bengston Scientists interested in finding specific genes that influence the behavior of humans and animals have a new tool, thanks to a two-year...
What do piranhas and goldfish have in common?
Credit: Prosanta Chakrabarty, LSU The common goldfish, the tiny minnows, the fish tank favorite tetra, the famous Electric Eel, the enormous Mekong Giant Catfish that...
Slow motion waves of jumping genes in the human genome
Credit: Kathryn Faith. Nature is full of parasites–organisms that flourish and proliferate at the expense of another species. Surprisingly, these same competing roles of parasite...
U of U Health and Janssen Research & Development investigate genetics of suicide
Credit: CDC Data and Statistics Fatal Injury Report 2015 and University of Utah Health Even today, suicide is a taboo topic often discussed in whispers...
Under the weather? A blood test can tell if antibiotics are needed
DURHAM, N.C. — Researchers at Duke Health are fine-tuning a test that can determine whether a respiratory illness is caused by infection from a virus...
Adjuvant nivolumab superior to ipilimumab in surgically resected stage…
Credit: Courtesy of NYU Langone Medical Center. Jeffrey S. Weber, MD, PhD LUGANO-MADRID, 11 September, 2017 – Adjuvant nivolumab is superior to standard of care...
Genes associated with progression of melanoma are identified
When researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil treated human melanoma cell lines with a synthetic compound similar to curcumin, one of...
Matchmaking for cancer care
Credit: Illustration by Jeffrey Chase/University of Delaware A team of computer scientists from the University of Delaware and Georgetown University has developed a new system...
BGRF and SILS scientists analyze viability of shRNA therapy for Huntington’s Disease
Credit: Translational Neuroscience Friday, November 31, 2017, London, UK: Researchers from the Biogerontology Research Foundation , Department of Molecular Neuroscience at the Swammerdam Institute fo..
Youths with gender dysphoria have higher rates of Asperger syndrome
IMAGE: LGBT Health, published bimonthly online with Open Access options and in print, brings together the LGBT research, health care, and advocacy communities to address...
Is childhood obesity a psychological disorder?
Credit: Bradley Peterson, M.D., Children’s Hospital Los Angeles A team of researchers, including senior investigator, Bradley Peterson, MD, director of the Institute for the Developing...
Researchers compose guidelines for handling CAR T cell side effects
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON — Immune-cell based therapies opening a new frontier for cancer treatment carry unique, potentially lethal side effects that provide...
Study: Risk of undetected cancer in gynecologic surgery higher than previously thought
BOSTON–Minimally invasive gynecologic surgeries have advantages for patients, including shorter hospital stays, quicker recoveries, and less pain. However, power morcellation, a technique which cuts t..
NIH genome sequencing program targets the genomic bases of common, rare disease
IMAGE: The National Human Genome Research Institute and other institutes will fund genome sequencing centers to focus on understanding the genomic bases of common and...