Endangered Cuban crocodiles come home
Credit: André Baumgarten/WCS HAVANA, Cuba (July 13, 2017) - Experts from WCS's Global Conservation Programs and WCS's Bronx Zoo assisted Cuban conservationists in the recent...
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Stand Up To Cancer, St. Baldrick’s Foundation hail green light for CAR T cell therapy
Credit: Stand Up To Cancer Stand Up To Cancer and the St. Baldrick's Foundation welcomed the Oncology Drugs Advisory Committee's (ODAC) strong recommendation for approval...
Kessler Foundation researchers awarded grants by NJ Commission on Brain Injury Research
Credit: Kessler Foundation Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, Peii Chen, PhD, Ekaterina Dobyrakova, PhD, and Soha Saleh, PhD, all of Kessler Foundation, have won the majority of...
Mountaintop coal mining causes appalachian rivers to run ‘consistently saltier’
Credit: Fabian Nippgen Mountaintop-removal coal mining causes many streams and rivers in Appalachia to run consistently saltier for up to 80 percent of the year,...
Using a microRNA to shift the makeup of glioblastoma subtypes
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), an extremely aggressive brain cancer, is a very complex disease. It is characterized by a fast-growing tumor in the brain composed of...
Diet rich in tomatoes cuts skin cancer in half in mice
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Daily tomato consumption appeared to cut the development of skin cancer tumors by half in a mouse study at The Ohio State...
Cancer cells force normal cells to mimic viruses to help tumors spread, resist treatment
PHILADELPHIA - In a study that could explain why some breast cancers are more aggressive than others, researchers say they now understand how cancer cells...
Bakaletz Lab biofilm work published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The laboratory of Lauren Bakaletz, PhD, director, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and vice president of basic sciences, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's, studied the...
The BGRF and Diversity.AI announce a new tool to assess organizational diversity
Credit: Diversity.AI The Biogerontology Research Foundation releases the results of their first pilot study, conducted as part of their ongoing partnership with Diversity.AI, alongside scientists...
Experimental Zika virus vaccines restrict in utero virus transmission in mice
Credit: JM Richner et al./Cell WHAT: Two experimental vaccines can restrict Zika virus transmission from pregnant mice to their fetuses and can prevent Zika virus-induced...
USDA announces $7.2 million for research on plant-biotic interactions
WASHINGTON, D.C. July 13, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced 10 grants totaling $7.2...
Pittsburgh-Paris partnership: Pitt Medicine to collaborate with French research institutes
Credit: French Embassy, Washington DC PITTSBURGH, July 13, 2017 - The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has entered into an agreement with three world-renowned...
BASF unveils new class of insecticide for malaria prevention
Credit: BASF WHO recommendation for game-changing mosquito net First bed net to contain non-pyrethroid chemistry Collaboration with IVCC and London School of Hygiene & Tropical...
Newly discovered elovanoids called a ‘transformative new concept of biology’
Credit: Darryl Schmitt for LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence New Orleans, LA - Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor...
Cancer may metastasize without lymph node involvement
(Bethesda, MD, July 13, 2017) Research by several leading scientists including Rakesh Jain, PhD, Director of the Edwin L. Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology at...
