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July 28, 2017

Is the solution to the obesity epidemic all in our heads? A study by researchers at The Rockefeller University suggests ...

New SU2C-Lustgarten Foundation team aims to apply CAR T-cell therapy to pancreatic cancer

PHILADELPHIA - July 27, 2017 - Stand Up To Cancer is supporting a new translational research team to explore how ...

Study finds breast cancer driver, HER2, in 3 percent of lung cancers

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center The Lung Cancer Mutation Consortium at the University of Colorado Cancer Center reports this ...

New research findings to standardise first aid treatment of jellyfish stings

Credit: Photo: Nuala Moore New research from NUI Galway and the University of Hawaii at Manoa has identified the best ...

First molecules discovered by next-generation artificial intelligence to be developed into drugs

Credit: Insilico Medicine Thursday, July 27, 2017, Baltimore, Md., Insilico Medicine ("Insilico"), a Baltimore-based leader in artificial intelligence ("AI") for ...

New imaging technique overturns longstanding textbook model of DNA folding

How can six and half feet of DNA be folded into the tiny nucleus of a cell? Researchers funded by ...

New 3-D imaging reveals how human cell nucleus organizes DNA and chromatin of it’s genome

Credit: Horng D. Ou, Salk Institute. Sixty-four years ago, James Watson and Francis Crick described the now-iconic double helix structure ...

UT Southwestern finds link between backup immune defense, mutation seen in Crohn’s disease

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - July 27, 2017 - Genes that regulate a cellular recycling system called autophagy are commonly ...

BTI receives DARPA ‘Insect Allies’ Award

Credit: Emilyn Matsumura Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI), the University of Minnesota, the University of California, Davis, and ...

New 3-D imaging reveals how human cell nucleus organizes DNA and chromatin of its genome

Credit: Horng D. Ou, Salk Institute. Sixty-four years ago, James Watson and Francis Crick described the now-iconic double helix structure ...

No longer lost in translation

Credit: La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology LA JOLLA, CA--Mouse models have advanced our understanding of immune function and ...

Penn Center for Precision Medicine awards $565,000 in second Accelerator grants

PHILADELPHIA - The Penn Center for Precision Medicine (PCPM) Accelerator Fund awarded eight research teams from Penn Medicine in their ...

Drug combination shows better tolerance and effectiveness in metastatic renal cell cancer

LEBANON, N.H. - A new cooperative research study including Norris Cotton Cancer Center's Lionel Lewis, MB BCh, MD, finds that ...

Risk for bipolar disorder associated with faster aging

New King's College London research suggests that people with a family history of bipolar disorder may 'age' more rapidly than ...

A new bird which humans drove to extinction discovered in Azores

Credit: Pau Oliver Inside the crater of a volcano on Graciosa Island in the Azores archipelago, in the Atlantic Ocean, ...

Scientists identify gene mutations in smoking-related cancers

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - July 25, 2017 - African-Americans typically have worse outcomes from smoking-related cancers than Caucasians, but the reasons ...

Results of NRG-RTOG 0436 highlight need for biomarkers in treatment of esophageal cancer

PHILADELPHIA, PA -- NRG-RTOG 0436 has determined that adding an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor to a chemo-radiation regimen ...

Nanoparticles loaded with component of common spice kill cancer cells

Attaching curcumin, a component of the common spice turmeric, to nanoparticles can be used to target and destroy treatment-resistant neuroblastoma ...

NASA encourages kids to Train Like an Astronaut

Credit: Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut Mission X: Train like an Astronaut, since its inception in 2011, has morphed ...

Dragonfly brains predict the path of their prey