Study identifies new target to preserve nerve function
Scientists in the Vollum Institute at OHSU have identified an enzyme that plays a crucial role in the degeneration of axons, the threadlike portions of...
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NAS announces awards for Building Capacity for Science Communication Partnerships
WASHINGTON -- In an effort to encourage innovative approaches to building productive public engagement with science, the National Academy of Sciences, with support from the...
Immunosuppression underlies resistance to anti-angiogenic therapy
A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team has identified a novel mechanism behind resistance to angiogenesis inhibitors - drugs that fight cancer by suppressing the...
AMP to recognize Andrew P. Feinberg, M.D., M.P.H. with 2017 Award for Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics
BETHESDA, Md. July 14, 2017 The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), the premier global, non-profit organization serving molecular diagnostic professionals, today announced that Andrew P....
Loyola and Gottlieb named 2017 Most Wired hospitals
For the 14th time, Loyola University Medical Center has been named one of the nation's "Most Wired" hospitals. Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, a member of Loyola...
Feinstein Institute identifies potential cause for lupus
MANHASSET, NY -- Leading rheumatologist and Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Professor Betty Diamond, MD, may have identified a protein as a cause for the...
University of Birmingham launches £2million global research project
(University of Birmingham) The University of Birmingham has secured £2 million from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to launch a research group aimed...
ASHG honors Daniel MacArthur with inaugural Early-Career Award
Credit: courtesy Broad Institute BETHESDA, MD - The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Daniel MacArthur, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Analytic and...
Increased sample size in 2015 survey
Credit: Rob Margetta The National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics has more than doubled the sample size of its 2015 Survey...
New limits to functional portion of human genome reported
Credit: University of Houston An evolutionary biologist at the University of Houston has published new calculations that indicate no more than 25 percent of the...
The end of aging? Targeting the underlying mechanisms for enhancing human healthspan
San Francisco, CA -- The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), http://www.afar.org, the world-renowned non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing healthy aging through biom..
Walking like ants gives spiders a chance
ITHACA, N.Y. - Humans aren't the only actors on the planet. To avoid being eaten, some jumping spiders pretend to be ants, according to Cornell...
Prior dengue infection does not increase Zika disease severity
Individuals who are infected by Zika virus after having dengue fever do not appear to become more severely ill than people with Zika who have...
Decline in financing could undermine malaria efforts
Global malaria elimination funding is declining at a time when it remains crucial to eliminating the disease worldwide, according to a study published in the...
Researchers identify potentially safer substitutes for BPA
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have identified a group of potential substitutes for bisphenol A (BPA) that lack the...
