Fast, efficient sperm tails inspire nanobiotechnology
Credit: Cornell University Just like workers in a factory, enzymes can create a final product more efficiently if they are stuck together in one place...
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Penn Medicine team to present findings of personalized cellular therapies at ASH Meeting
PHILADELPHIA - Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) will present the latest...
Three new ASCB celldance video awards take you inside living cells
Credit: SCB Celldance 2016 and Daniela Cimini, Virginia Tech SAN FRANCISCO, CA--Riding a wave of powerful new imaging technologies, three ASCB member labs will take...
Drug/catheter combo for labor induction could save 2.4 million hours of labor annually, Penn study shows
PHILADELPHIA - Labor induction is one of the most common medical procedures in the world, with nearly one-quarter of women who deliver in the U.S....
‘Shock and kill’ strategy for curing HIV may endanger patients’ brains
Credit: Stephen Wietgrefe Combination drug treatments have become successful at long-term control of HIV infection, but the goal of totally wiping out the virus and...
Advanced imaging of intact brains during ischemic stroke reveals a new role for pericytes
Credit: Andy Y. Shih, Ph.D., and Robert Underly, Medical University of South Carolina. Pericytes are the primary locus of matrix-mellaproteinase-9-dependent (MMP-9) capillary damage and blood...
Map of drugs reveals uncharted waters in search for new treatments
Scientists have created a map of all 1,578 licensed drugs and their mechanisms of action - as a means of identifying 'uncharted waters' in the...
Exotic insulator may hold clue to key mystery of modern physics
Experiments using laser light and pieces of gray material the size of fingernail clippings may offer clues to a fundamental scientific riddle: What is the...
Polypharmacy in psychiatric practice, etiology and potential consequences
Psychiatric polypharmacy is defined as the use of two or more drugs in the treatment of a psychiatric condition. Although, a lack of consensus has...
New study describes 200 million years of geological evolution
Credit: Giulio Viola, University of Bologna Tectonic plates, big sections of Earth's crust and blocks underneath them, are constantly moving. The areas where these sections...
Bactericidal activity of usnic acid-loaded electrospun fibers
The development of antibiotics generated a revolution in the way we look and treat bacterial infections. In spite of the initial success, new problems came...
Family member with special connections
Credit: University of Konstanz Through the collaboration of the teams of Professor Elke Deuerling and Professor Christine Peter within the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 969...
Novel genetic tools for bioassessment of European aquatic ecosystems, COST grant proposal
Credit: Vasco Elbrecht and Florian Leese Often referred to as "the blue planet", the majority of the Earth consists of aquatic ecosystems. Human land-use change,...
Yo-yo dieting might cause extra weight gain
Repeated dieting may lead to weight gain because the brain interprets the diets as short famines and urges the person to store more fat for...
A handful of nuts a day cuts the risk of a wide range of diseases
A large analysis of current research shows that people who eat at least 20g of nuts a day have a lower risk of heart disease,...
