DNA is like everything else: it’s not what you have, but how you use it
Flipons -- an instructive Genetic CodeCredit: Alan Herbert DNA sequences encode information in many different ways. Codons specify the amino ...
Tag: Medicine/Health
Biomarker for schizophrenia can be detected in human hair
Credit: RIKEN Working with model mice, post-mortem human brains, and people with schizophrenia, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain ...
Bright SPARC
Medical University of South Carolina team tapped to develop the prototype of a cloud-based tool to measure impact of clinical ...
Influenza human challenge study begins at NIAID-sponsored clinical trial units
Credit: NIH A clinical trial in which healthy adults will be deliberately infected with influenza virus under carefully controlled conditions ...
A weapon to make a superbug to become more deadly
Professor Chen and his team carried out experiments to compare the survival rates of the mice infected with different bacterial ...
Decision support tool reduces unneeded referrals of low-risk patients with chest pain
Credit: Children's National Hospital NEW ORLEANS-Few events strike more fear in parents than hearing their child's heart "hurts." When primary ...
Antibiotics with novel mechanism of action discovered
Credit: Matthias Urfer, UZH The rapid emergence of antimicrobial resistance is a matter of global concern. According to the World ...
Empowering pediatricians to reduce preventable firearm injuries and deaths
Credit: Children's National Hospital NEW ORLEANS-Lenore Jarvis, M.D., MEd, FAAP, remembers feeling fatigue and frustration when, despite her team's herculean ...
Bacterial lifestyle alters the evolution of antibiotic resistance
Credit: Vaughn Cooper, Ph.D. PITTSBURGH, Oct. 23, 2019 - How bacteria live -- whether as independent cells or in a ...
Ultrastructure of focal adhesion scaffold unveiled in human pluripotent stem cells
Credit: Image: Camilo Guzmán, Aki Stubb, and HHMI Janelian Advanced Imaging Core Focal adhesions are known as signalling platforms broadcasting ...
NIH contract to CWRU, UH to accelerate TB vaccine development
$30 million contract will establish TB immunology research centers across the countryCredit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND (October 23, 2019)--Tuberculosis ...
Regenstrief scientist honored for research to support clinical decision making
Credit: Regenstrief Institute The Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) awarded Regenstrief Institute researcher Stephen Downs, M.D., M.S., with the ...
Ending HIV will require optimizing treatment and prevention tools, say NIH experts
Commentary emphasizes need to optimally implement current tools and develop new interventionsCredit: NIAID WHAT: Optimal implementation of existing HIV prevention ...
Electrospun fibers weave new medical innovations
Novel applications of a technology called coaxial electrospinning could improve contraceptive products and help patients with brain tumorsCredit: Joseph Fuqua ...
Fighting the herpes virus
Credit: Felix Petermann, MDC New insights into preventing herpes infections have been published in Nature Communications. Researchers from the Berlin ...
Broadly protective antibodies could lead to better flu treatments and vaccines
Credit: NIAID WHAT: A newly identified set of three antibodies could lead to better treatments and vaccines against influenza, according ...
Can solar technology kill cancer cells?
Credit: Photo by Derrick Turner EAST LANSING, Mich. - Scientific breakthroughs don't always happen in labs. For Sophia and Richard ...
Tuberculous infection is not life-long in most people
Penn-led study suggested majority will not develop disease even if test shows positive resultsCredit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - A new ...
Nerve cell protection free from side effects
Göttingen scientists are on the trail of an alternative erythropoietin receptorCredit: Ralf Heinrich The hormone erythropoietin (Epo) is a well-known ...
IKBFU researchers have discovered another natural antioxidant — alder bark
An alder bark may become a great source of anti-aging and anti-disease natural antioxidantsCredit: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University An ...
