Study shows signs of hope for endangered sea turtles
Bones from dead turtles washed up on Mexican beaches indicate that Baja California is critical to the survival of endangered North Pacific loggerhead sea turtles,...
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Study challenges potential pancreatic cancer target
ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- A protein thought to fuel pancreatic cancer development plays a much more complicated role, a new study finds. PDX1, a transcription...
Millions of people with metabolic syndrome may need more vitamin E
Credit: Photo by John Liu, courtesy of Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - New research has shown that people with metabolic syndrome need significantly more...
Family donates $1.25 million to Be The Match Foundation to support clinical trial candidates
MINNEAPOLIS--January 17, 2017--Every year, thousands of patients are diagnosed with blood cancers and other life-threatening diseases--and for many patients, treatments through clinical trials provide..
Mayo Clinic researchers find cancer-fighting drugs help morbidly obese mice lose weight
PHOENIX -- Scientific investigations sometimes result in serendipitous discoveries which shift the investigations from one focus to another. In the case of researchers at Mayo...
NREL pioneers better way to make renewable hydrogen
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) developed a method which boosts the longevity of high-efficiency photocathodes in photoelectrochemical wa..
ReSeqTB Data Platform now available to public
Credit: ReSeqTB TUCSON, January 17, 2017 --The Rapid Drug Susceptibility Testing Consortium (RDST), coordinated by the Critical Path Institute (C-Path) through the Critical Path to...
Non-ambient conditions in the investigation and manufacturing of drug forms
To become a drug, a pharmacologically active compound must be prepared in a specific form. This form must be robust during manufacturing, packaging, storage and...
See how immune cells break through blood vessel walls
Credit: Barzilai et al./Credit Required In any given second, thousands of immune cells are poking holes in your blood vessels as they travel out of...
Biophysics plays key role in immune system signaling and response
Credit: Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech How big you are may be as important as what you look like, at least to immune system cells...
Immune responses against a virus-related skin cancer suggest ways to improve immunotherapy
Credit: Fred Hutch News Service SEATTLE - Researchers at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington say a new study suggests...
Why scientists should research emojis and emoticons :-P
Credit: Trends in Cognitive Sciences More than 90% of online populations now incorporate emojis and emoticons into their texts and emails, and researchers are wondering...
Scientists discover drug that increases ‘good’ fat mass and function
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--January 17, 2017--Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes identified an FDA-approved drug that can create the elusive and beneficial brown fat. Mice treated with...
Largest Populus SNP dataset holds promise for biofuels, materials, metabolites
Credit: Genevieve Martin/Oak Ridge National Laboratory/US Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Jan. 17, 2017--Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)...
NASA’s Aqua satellite sees Tropical Depression 01W ending near Southern Vietnam
Credit: Credit: NASA NASA's Aqua satellite provided a visible-light image of Tropical Depression 01W as it headed toward southern Vietnam for a brief landfall on...
