Coveted NCI award comes to BRCA expert at UT Health San Antonio
Credit: UT Health San Antonio SAN ANTONIO, Texas, U.S.A. -- UT Health San Antonio biochemist Patrick Sung, D.Phil., one of ...
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Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine names Dr. Garlanger winner of Bors Award
Kristin Garlanger, DO, of the Mayo Clinic, is this year's winner of the Ernest Bors, MD Award for Scientific Development, ...
Lifetime achievement award for a scientific pioneer
Haseltine recognized for 'contributions of outstanding significance to women's health'Credit: The University of Texas at Arlington From a very early ...
Studying drivers behind cardiac arrhythmias
Visualizing electrical patterns underlying abnormal heart contractions and deformationsCredit: University Medical Center Göttingen WASHINGTON, D.C., September 17, 2019 -- Despite ...
Suicide risk factors vary by ethnic group
New risk profiles needed for better suicide predictionCredit: University of Houston Approximately 8.3 million adults in the United States reported ...
Gene editing enables researchers to correct mutation in muscle stem cells in DMD model
Correction of mutation in muscle stem cells with CRISPR editing may pave the way for lifelong treatments for muscular dystrophyCredit: ...
Miniaturizing medical imaging, sensing technology
High quality medical images produced using a microchip proves researcher's fabrication method can be used to miniaturize sensing, imaging and ...
UVA leads university-based coalition to battle the opioid crisis
Credit: Josh Barney | UVA Health The University of Virginia School of Medicine is leading a statewide effort to battle ...
Familial hypercholesterolemia patients at high risk for cardiovascular events
Earlier diagnosis and more aggressive cholesterol lowering may reduce the risk according to new data from the FH Foundation's CASCADE ...
Researchers find building mutations into Ebola virus protein disrupts ability to cause disease
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Creating mutations in a key Ebola virus protein that helps the deadly virus escape from the ...
Study gives clues to the origin of Huntington’s disease, and a new way to find drugs
Credit: Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology at The Rockefeller University The first signs of Huntington's, an inherited ...
Alzheimer’s memory loss reversed by new head device using electromagnetic waves
Just released new results in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease indicate that in-home treatment with a bioengineered head device emitting ...
Prestigious grant to use artificial intelligence for improved glucose control
Credit: © Adrian Moser The ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research of the University of Bern is the recipient of ...
The transformative power of local initiatives to address environmental health inequities
Credit: MIT Press A new book details the insights learned from communities that came together to overcome long-standing and seemingly ...
Cause of rare, fatal disorder in young children pinpointed
Proof-of-concept drug therapy benefits mouse model of Krabbe diseaseCredit: Sands Lab Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. ...
Novel anti-cancer nanomedicine for efficient chemotherapy
Credit: Santos Lab Researchers at the University of Helsinki in collaboration with researchers from Åbo Akademi University,Finland and Huazhong University ...
Pros and cons of genetic scissors
In combination with other methods, Crispr technology might one day render animal testing obsolete.Credit: RUB, Marquard Crispr technology has greatly ...
Radiation therapy effective against deadly heart rhythm
Standard cancer treatment offers hope to severely ill heart patientsCredit: Matt Miller A single high dose of radiation aimed at ...
New method reveals how damage occurs in human biological cells due to mechanical fatigue
Credit: Florida Atlantic University Human red blood cells (RBCs) are extremely resilient and have the capacity to undergo cellular deformation ...
‘Death Star’ bacterial structures that inject proteins can be tapped to deliver drugs
Not all bacteria spread diseases, many are beneficial and this strain has nanoscale syringes that deliver proteins which cause metamorphosis ...
