BC scientists play major role in international effort to map the human epigenome
BC scientists and their colleagues from across the globe have made a major leap forward in understanding how the human body's trillions of cells develop...
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3-D imaging technique maps migration of DNA-carrying material at the center of cells
Credit: Berkeley Lab, UCSF Scientists have mapped the reorganization of genetic material that takes place when a stem cell matures into a nerve cell. Detailed...
Uncombable hair gene discovered
Credit: Photo: private Many parents know from their own experience that it is not always easy to comb children's hair. Yet with patience and nerves...
Ducklings ‘maintain two separate memory banks of visual information’
Scientists from the University of Oxford have shown that newly hatched ducklings that are shown a substitute mother object with only one eye do not...
Study links health literacy to higher levels of health insurance coverage
Uninsured individuals who had greater knowledge about health insurance and financial issues were more likely to gain coverage after health insurance exchanges opened under the...
T cell channel could be targeted to treat head and neck cancers
CINCINNATI--Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have discovered that an ion channel, active within T cells (white blood cells), could be targeted to reduce...
Malaria parasite evades rapid test detection in children
Credit: Jonathan Parr Chapel Hill, NC - The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has one of the highest rates of people living with malaria....
Does traffic-related air pollution increase asthma risk by stimulating immune mediated inflammation?
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, November17, 2016--A recent study of 577 children living in Puerto Rico shows that residential distance to...
Researchers examine how drug policy impacts HIV vulnerability among African-Americans
Although HIV rates are higher among the African American community compared to the White population, research shows that engagement in risky behaviors does not fully...
BAG3 protein plays critical role in protecting heart from reperfusion injury, Temple research shows
(Philadelphia, PA) - The inability of cells to eliminate damaged proteins and organelles following the blockage of a coronary artery and its subsequent re-opening with...
The cell of origin in childhood brain tumors affects susceptibility to therapy
Children that are diagnosed with the severe the brain tumour malignant glioma often have a very poor prognosis. Knowledge about how pediatric malignant glioma arises...
Virologists unravel mystery of late C20th gibbon leukaemia outbreak
The mystery of an outbreak of lymphoma and leukaemia in gibbon colonies in the US, Bermuda and Thailand in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
New technology detects COPD in minutes
Credit: Swansea University This technology is now being taken forward commercially through the recently formed spin-out company PulmonIR Ltd. Clinical trials in collaboration with Cwm...
Men’s brains are found to be more greedy than women’s
It has long been known to science that women find it easier than men to multitask and switch between tasks. But identifying exactly which areas...
Reducing unnecessary testing of UTIs improves patient care, saves resources
NEW YORK (November 17, 2016) - Many hospital patients may be unnecessarily tested, and treated, for catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), according to a study...
