Surprising genetic variety in childhood brain cancer
Medulloblastoma is a malignant tumor of the cerebellum. Medulloblastoma can occur at any age, but it most commonly affects children. Medulloblastomas are classified in four...
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Novel CRISPR-Cas9 screening enables discovery of new targets to aid cancer immunotherapy
Credit: Dana-Farber/Boston Children's BOSTON (July 19, 2017) -- A novel screening method developed by a team at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center --...
Definitive genomic study reveals alterations driving most medulloblastoma brain tumors
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital The most comprehensive analysis yet of medulloblastoma has identified genomic changes responsible for more than 75 percent of the...
Dundee-China linkup uncovers secrets of our cellular ‘energy sensor’
A scientific collaboration between researchers in Scotland and China has uncovered a new kind of `energy sensor' in our cells, changing our understanding of how...
Grant supports deep dive into microbes
Credit: Shannon Modla/ University of Delaware Even in sediment cores extracted more than a mile beneath the ocean floor, you'll find them. Tiny organisms only...
Social interaction affects cancer patients’ response to treatment
Credit: Jeff Leinert, NHGRI How well cancer patients fared after chemotherapy was affected by their social interaction with other patients during treatment, according to a...
Team traces masculinization in mice to estrogen receptor in inhibitory neurons
Credit: Tollkuhn Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have opened a black box in the brain whose...
In mice, acting male depends on estrogen receptors
Credit: Tollkuhn Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have opened a black box in the brain whose...
IPM receives multi-year award from UK government to advance technologies for women’s HIV
SILVER SPRING, Md. (July 20, 2017) -- The nonprofit International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) announced today that it has received a £12 million (US$15.6 million)...
Imaging of Scar Tissue Formation
Organs respond to injuries with the formation of new fibrous tissue, which can result in scarring. This process called fibrogenesis can now be monitored noninvasively...
Harris to receive GSA’s 2017 Joseph T. Freeman Award
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) -- the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging -- has chosen Tamara Harris, MD, FGSA,...
New study reveals contrasts in how groups of neurons function during decision making
Credit: Harvey Lab/HMS. By training mice to perform a sound identification task in a virtual reality maze, researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Istituto...
UTA biologist wins NSF CAREER grant to study effects of predators on evolution of Daphnia
Credit: UTA A biologist at The University of Texas at Arlington who studies ecology and evolutionary biology is the recipient of a prestigious career development...
A common underlying genetic basis for social behavior in dogs and humans
Dogs' ability to communicate and interact with humans is one the most astonishing differences between them and their wild cousins, wolves. A new study published...
Penn researchers engineer macrophages to engulf cancer cells in solid tumors
Credit: Discher Lab. One reason cancer is so difficult to treat is that it avoids detection by the body. Agents of the immune system are...
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