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Credit: Dr. Cecil Fox, National Cancer Institute TUCSON, Ariz. - A study by scientists at the University of Arizona and ...

TMIST breast cancer screening trial begins to enroll nearly 165,000 women

The Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (TMIST), the first randomized trial to compare two types of digital mammography for breast ...

How has society adapted to hurricanes? A look at New Orleans over 300 years

Credit: WIREs Climate Change In the midst of an intense hurricane season, a historical perspective published in WIREs Climate Change ...

Injection alternative

CAMBRIDGE, MA - People with Type 1 diabetes must check their blood glucose several times a day and inject themselves ...

$1.4 million grant to fund LSU health research pipeline

New Orleans, LA - The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has awarded LSU Health New Orleans a $1.4 ...

Illinois researchers develop gene circuit design strategy to advance synthetic biology

Credit: University of Illinois Department of Bioengineering. Over the last 17 years, scientists and engineers have developed synthetic gene circuits ...

New study funded points to unexpected benefits of rabies vaccination in dogs

The rabies vaccine is extremely effective at preventing this fatal disease in dogs, but new research, funded by Morris Animal ...

Prostaglandin EI inhibits leukemia stem cells

Two drugs, already approved for safe use in people, may be able to improve therapy for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), ...

Radiation+immunotherapy can slow tumor growth for some patients with metastatic NSCLC

Credit: James Welsh, MD SAN DIEGO, September 24, 2017 - A new study involving patients with stage IV cancer finds ...

International trial confirms safety, effectiveness of HDR brachytherapy for cervical cancer

Credit: May Abdel-Wahab, MD, PhD, FASTRO SAN DIEGO, September 24, 2017 - Findings from a new multicenter, international clinical trial ...

New open-access journal Metabarcoding & Metagenomics joins the lines of publisher Pensoft

Credit: Metabarcoding and Metagenomics and Pensoft A new innovative open-access academic journal Metabarcoding and Metagenomics (MBMG) is launched to welcome ...

Scientists discover genes are controlled by ‘nano footballs’

Research at the University of York has revealed that genes are controlled by 'nano footballs' - structures that look like ...

Penguin-mounted video captures gastronomic close encounters of the gelatinous kind

Credit: Ecological Society of America Footage from penguin-mounted mini video recorders shows four species of penguin eating jellyfish and other ...

UW to host $15.6M NSF-funded center for innovation, education in materials science

Credit: Matt Hagen/UW Clean Energy Institute The University of Washington is home to a new national center of excellence for ...

UW to host $15.6 million NSF-funded center for innovation, education in materials science

Credit: Matt Hagen/UW Clean Energy Institute The University of Washington is home to a new national center of excellence for ...

Positive, negative or neutral, it all matters: NASA explains space radiation

Credit: NASA Charged particles may be small, but they matter to astronauts. NASA's Human Research Program (HRP) is investigating these ...

Our weight tells how we assess food

"It can be considered an instance of 'embodiment' in which our brain interacts with our body". This is the comment ...

Multi-gene test predicts Alzheimer’s better than APOE E4 alone

A new test that combines the effects of more than two dozen genetic variants, most associated by themselves with only ...

USDA announces support to grow the bioeconomy

WASHINGTON, D.C. Sept. 22, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today ...

Penn First in world to treat patient with new radiation technology