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July 14, 2017

Credit: Florida State University In today's appearance-driven world, body image can be a powerful influence on our choices and behaviors, ...

The biodiversity data journal Check List joins Pensoft’s open access portfolio

July 14, 2017

Credit: Check List and Pensoft The well-reputed and established journal Check List is the latest biodiversity-themed title to join scholarly ...

Spark Therapeutics announces publication in The Lancet of pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial data for investigational voretigene neparvovec

July 14, 2017

Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE), a fully integrated gene therapy company dedicated to challenging the inevitability of genetic disease, today announced ...

Tall men and obese men at higher risk of aggressive prostate cancer

Men who are tall and obese are at increased risk of high grade prostate cancer and prostate cancer death, according ...

ASTRO updates insurance coverage recommendations for proton therapy

ARLINGTON, Va., July 13, 2017 -- The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has issued an update to its recommendations ...

50-year-old flu virus model revamped, revealing pandemic prediction possibilities

Credit: Seema S. Lakdawala/Pitt PITTSBURGH, July 13, 2017 - The scientific textbook depiction of the flu virus is about to ...

IPM’s dapivirine vaginal ring now under review by European Medicines Agency

SILVER SPRING, Md. (July 13, 2017) -- The nonprofit International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) is pleased to announce that its ...

UCSF Health affiliates with Golden Gate Urgent Care

UCSF Health has signed an affiliation with Golden Gate Urgent Care (GGUC) to collaborate in providing top-quality urgent care in ...

Tiny cellular antennae key to fat formation in muscle

Credit: Daniel Kopinke Like it or not, as we age, our muscle cells are slowly exchanged, one by one, for ...

Study by UTA professor shows many parents in the dark about concussions

Despite the large volume of information about sports related concussions on the Internet, many parents and guardians of young athletes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Surgery for early prostate cancer may not save lives

Credit: Washington University School of Medicine A major 20-year study provides further evidence that prostate cancer surgery offers negligible benefits ...

Blood test for early detection of pancreatic cancer headed to clinic

Credit: The lab of Ken Zaret, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA - A newly identified biomarker panel ...

Discovery of brain-like activity in immune system promises better disease treatments

The Australian National University (ANU) has led the discovery of brain-like activity in the immune system that promises better treatments ...

Mathematical modeling could help with personalized cancer care

A new study from the University of Southern California could pave the way for improving personalised lung cancer care and ...

Chronic liver inflammation linked to Western diet

Credit: The American Journal of Pathology Philadelphia, PA, July 12, 2017 - A new study in The American Journal of ...

Big-data analysis points toward new drug discovery method

A research team led by scientists at UC San Francisco has developed a computational method to systematically probe massive amounts ...

Shortcut method in drug development

In the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a research group at Uppsala ...

How migrating birds ‘run a marathon,’ burning muscles and organs in long flights