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Credit: Will Kirk/JHU A team led by Johns Hopkins researchers has discovered a biochemical signaling process that causes densely packed cancer cells to break away...

Study sweetens connection between cancer and sugar

Credit: University of Texas at Dallas In a new study, scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas have found that some types of cancers...

Penn State DNA ladders: Inexpensive molecular rulers for DNA research

Credit: Penn State University New, license-free DNA ladders will allow researchers to estimate the size of fragments of DNA for a fraction of the cost...

Isolated Greek villages reveal genetic secrets that protect against heart disease

A genetic variant that protects the heart against cardiovascular disease has been discovered by researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators. Reported...

Researchers develop faster and cheaper cardiac imaging test for developing countries

Prague, Czech Republic - 26 May 2017: Researchers in the UK and Peru have developed a faster and cheaper cardiac imaging test that can be...

Diesel pollution linked to heart damage

Prague, Czech Republic - 26 May 2017: Diesel pollution is linked with heart damage, according to research presented today at EuroCMR 2017.1 "There is strong...

Knowledge gap on the origin of sex

There are significant gaps in our knowledge on the evolution of sex, according to a research review on sex chromosomes from Lund University in Sweden....

Small non-profit’s unconventional approach offers new hope with autism suramin trial

DALLAS, TX - May 26, 2017 - Results released today from an N of One: Autism Research Foundation supported clinical trial in boys with autism...

Penn study finds gray matter density increases during adolescence

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA -- For years, the common narrative in human developmental neuroimaging has been that gray matter in the brain - the tissue...

Penn Medicine’s Irene Hurford receives Exemplary Psychiatrist Award

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA -- Irene Hurford, MD, an assistant professor in the department of Psychiatry, has received a 2017 Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the...

Government transparency limited when it comes to America’s conserved private lands

Credit: Courtesy of Adena Rissman/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- American taxpayers spend millions of dollars each year to conserve privately owned lands. These lands provide public...

Engines of twingenuity: NASA’s twin study investigators have a meeting of the minds

Credit: NASA/Time If you took all the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) in your body and strung it end-to-end, it would reach all the way to Pluto...

Sediment from Himalayas may have made 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake more severe

Credit: Tim Fulton, IODP-JRSO CORVALLIS, Ore. - Sediment that eroded from the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau over millions of years was transported thousands of kilometers...

A flip switch for binge-eating?

Credit: Carla Schaffer / AAAS Researchers have identified a subgroup of neurons in the mouse brain that, upon activation, immediately prompt binge-like eating. Furthermore, repeated...

Study: A new way to slow cancer cell growth