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New Study Offers Hope To All Women Suffering from Hot Flashs

Jul 14, 2017 5:00 pm

Basic science may not always attract a lot of attention or funding, but it can lead to important conclusions with major impacts on many people. The work of Dr. Naomi Rance is one example. While she is...

How Your Normal Flora Can Help You Live Longer?

Jul 10, 2017 7:00 pm

Slowing down the aging process might be possible one day with supplements derived from gut bacteria. Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houst...

Another Reason To Ensure Children Get a Good Night Sleep

Jul 8, 2017 9:01 am

A LACK of sleep doesn’t just turn children into a grumpy handful, it may also accelerate their cellular ageing – a process that could have long-term health effects. Telomeres – th...

Arthrology (3)

New Subset Of T-Cells Implicated in Rheumatoid arthritis

Feb 11, 2017 2:00 pm

A research team led by scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) has carefully scrutinized the immune cells from patients with rheumatoid arthritis, revealing a striking new subset of T-c...

Fibroblasts CouldProvide New Target for Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Dec 20, 2016 8:05 am

A study led by researchers at the University of Birmingham reveals the key role of different types of fibroblast cells in the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), opening up a new avenue for rese...

Study Identifies a Common Bacterial Cause of Gum Disease That May Drive Rheumatoid Arthritis

Dec 19, 2016 6:39 am

Investigators at Johns Hopkins report they have new evidence that a bacterium known to cause chronic inflammatory gum infections also triggers the inflammatory "autoimmune" response characte...

Bacteriology (112)

Another Reason That Might Make You Eat More Yogurt!

Jul 18, 2017 4:00 pm

Yogurt is more than an excellent source of protein, calcium, and gut-healthy probiotic bacteria. A protein isolated from probiotic lactobacillus bacteria in yogurt is capable of inhibiting drug-resist...

A Key Finding Offers New Hope For Better Treatment of Tuberculosis

Jul 17, 2017 3:00 pm

A recent discovery by Cornell University researchers could lead to a new, effective treatment for persistent tuberculosis infections. Brian VanderVen, assistant professor of microbiology and immuno...

How Some Skin Bacteria Contribute to Eczema Flare-ups?

Jul 17, 2017 2:00 pm

Particular strains of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria have been linked to skin irritation in children with eczema, suggesting that the microbes that live on our skin play a role in the disorder. Ecz...

Bioinformatics (84)

How protein interactions drive cellular death

Jul 16, 2017 10:00 am

Researchers at the Universities of Tübingen and Konstanz, the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the Max Planck Institute of Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, and the German Cancer Research Centers ha...

Why Are Scientists Seeking Help from This Tiny Marine Creature?

Jul 10, 2017 12:00 pm

The marine invertebrate Botryllus schlosseri - AKA the star ascidian - has more in common with humans that you’d think - enough to be useful to scientists studying treatment methods for cancer a...

How Does The Liver Acts When It Is Plugged?

Jul 3, 2017 10:00 am

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of A...

Biopharmaceuticals (24)

Another role for oxytocin revealed.

May 21, 2017 3:00 pm

Experts say oxytocin, a key hormone made naturally by the brain, could hold the key to treating drug addicts and help them avoid relapse. Oxytocin is most usually associated with childbirth and breas...

Pushing The Process of Finding New Bacterial Compounds Forward

May 17, 2017 11:00 am

Bacteria have supplied some of today's most indispensable anti-cancer and anti-bacterial drugs. Yet these compounds comprise only a fraction of their possible offerings. Now, researchers have foun...

The origin of different drug response in childhood absence epilepsy.

May 11, 2017 6:00 pm

Consider two children who have childhood absence epilepsy (CAE), the most common form of pediatric epilepsy. They both take the same drug -- one child sees an improvement in their seizures, but the ot...

Biotechnology (172)

Using DNA as Videotape

Jul 18, 2017 9:00 am

For the first time, a primitive movie has been encoded in -- and then played back from -- DNA in living cells. Scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health say it is a major step toward a &q...

New Advanced System to Facilitate Directed Differentiation of Stem Cells

Jul 17, 2017 5:00 pm

Whether using embryonic or adult stem cells, coercing these master cells to convert to the desired target cell and reproduce flawlessly is difficult. Now an international team of researchers has a two...

The New Approach to Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Jul 10, 2017 4:00 pm

Genetically modified viruses that cause bacteria to kill themselves could be the next step in combating antibiotic-resistant infections. Several companies have engineered such viruses, called bacte...

Cancer (577)

Discovering Why a Common Type of Chemicals Increase Risk of Cancer

Jul 18, 2017 12:00 pm

A common class of chemicals found everywhere from car exhausts, smoke, building materials and furniture to cosmetics and shampoos could increase cancer risk because of their ability to break down the ...

First Use of Long-Read Genome Sequencing In Clinic

Jul 17, 2017 10:00 am

When Ricky Ramon was 7, he went for a routine checkup. The pediatrician, who lingered over his heartbeat, sent him for a chest X-ray, which revealed a benign tumor in the top-left chamber of his heart...

Why Should You Get More Tomato In your Diet?

Jul 16, 2017 9:00 am

Daily tomato consumption appeared to cut the development of skin cancer tumors by half in a mouse study at The Ohio State University. The new study of how nutritional interventions can alter the ri...

Cancer Therapy (152)

Why Should You Get More Tomato In your Diet?

Jul 16, 2017 9:00 am

How Cancer Cells Twist a Natually Protective Process For Their Benefit!

Jul 14, 2017 11:00 am

Cancer tumours manipulate a natural cell process to promote their survival suggesting that controlling this mechanism could stop progress of the disease, according to new research led by the Universit...

Scientists Make Heat Even More Hotter for Cancer Cells

Jul 11, 2017 11:00 am

Mineko Kengaku, Tatsuya Murakami, and their colleagues from Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) have developed a new method that modifies the surface of nano...

Cardiology (56)

How Blood Vessels are Well Protected Yet More Vulnerable to External Invasion?

Jul 13, 2017 11:00 am

Most infections enter the body through organs that are in constant contact with the outside environment, such as the lungs and intestines. Accordingly, the epithelial cells lining these organs have de...

Why The More Colorful The Fruits The Better?

Jul 11, 2017 12:00 pm

Inflammation is an immune response to cuts and scratches as well as to pathogenic infections. However, the inflammatory response can go overboard, contributing to atherosclerosis, a precursor to heart...

Why Are Scientists Seeking Help from This Tiny Marine Creature?

Jul 10, 2017 12:00 pm

The marine invertebrate Botryllus schlosseri - AKA the star ascidian - has more in common with humans that you’d think - enough to be useful to scientists studying treatment methods for cancer a...

Cell Biology (277)

New discovery Could Help In Finding New Treatments For Several Neurological Diseases

Jul 19, 2017 10:30 am

New discovery in motor neurone disease and dementia could pave the way to novel treatments A new discovery by scientists at the University of Sheffield could help slow down the progression of neuro...

Discovering Why a Common Type of Chemicals Increase Risk of Cancer

Jul 18, 2017 12:00 pm

How Hair Growth is Synchronized?

Jul 17, 2017 9:00 am

Hairs all over the body use the same two chemical signaling pathways to communicate with each other – a finding that might help us better understand baldness. Hair doesn’t constantly gr...

Cell Signaling (51)

How Plant Roots Know Where To Grow?

Jun 24, 2017 4:00 pm

Scientists from the University of Nottingham, England and Tohoku University, Japan have helped to solve a mystery that has fascinated scientists since Charles Darwin - how plant roots sense water and ...

A Key Process That Opens A New Treatment Direction For Several Diseases

Jun 22, 2017 5:00 pm

New study results show for the first time how dying cells ensure that they will be replaced, and suggests an ingenious, related new approach to shrinking cancerous tumors. A research team from Rush Un...

Understanding how legionella bacteria escapes from our immune system.

Jun 1, 2017 11:00 am

The precise mechanism used by Legionella bacteria to escape the body's defences has been unpicked in intricate detail and is described for the first time in the journal eLife. The study reveals a...

Clinical Trials (72)

Another Reason That Might Make You Eat More Yogurt!

Jul 18, 2017 4:00 pm

First Use of Long-Read Genome Sequencing In Clinic

Jul 17, 2017 10:00 am

New Study Offers Hope To All Women Suffering from Hot Flashs

Jul 14, 2017 5:00 pm

Dentistry (8)

Solving One Of The Most Common Teeth Problems

Jun 29, 2017 9:00 am

While root canals are effective in saving a tooth that has become infected or decayed, this age-old procedure may cause teeth to become brittle and susceptible to fracture over time. Now researchers a...

Who is to Blame in Causing Dental Plaque in Children?

Jun 26, 2017 10:00 am

Tooth decay doesn’t just affect adults, it also affects toddlers - a condition called early-childhood caries. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania showed that the fungus Candida albican...

New Study on Pufferfish Teeth Help Tackle Problem Tooth Loss in Humans

Jun 13, 2017 5:00 pm

Human teeth evolved from the same genes that make the bizarre beaked teeth of the pufferfish, according to new research by an international team of scientists. The study, led by Dr Gareth Fraser fr...

Dermatology (18)

How Some Skin Bacteria Contribute to Eczema Flare-ups?

Jul 17, 2017 2:00 pm

How Hair Growth is Synchronized?

Jul 17, 2017 9:00 am

Hairs all over the body use the same two chemical signaling pathways to communicate with each other – a finding that might help us better understand baldness. Hair doesn’t constantly gr...

One Step Closer Towards Solving The Hair Losing Problem

Jul 11, 2017 3:01 pm

Stem cell researchers at the University of Calgary have found another piece of the puzzle behind what may contribute to hair loss and prevent wounds from healing normally. Jeff Biernaskie's res...

Developmental Biology (82)

How The Uterus Mirrors the Mother's World to The Fetus

Jul 13, 2017 9:00 am

A developing fetus bathes in a mixture of cellular secretions and proteins unique to its mother's uterus. Before fertilization, the pH of uterine fluid helps create a conducive environment for spe...

How Alcohol Exposure During Pregnancy Makes Babies More Susceptible to Alcoholism?

Jul 11, 2017 1:00 pm

One of the many negative consequences when fetuses are exposed to alcohol in the womb is an increased risk for drug addiction later in life. Neuroscientists in the University at Buffalo Research Insti...

Another Reasons Why Moms Should Avoid High Fat Food While Being Pregnant

Jul 10, 2017 5:01 pm

Researchers have learned that slight modifications to the genome - epigenetic changes - can be caused by environmental influences, and can be passed down through generations. Pursuing this line of thi...

Diabetes (57)

Unexpected Role of a Common Cellular Protein in Insulin Production!

Jul 13, 2017 12:00 pm

A study published online in The FASEB Journal demonstrated that a protein complex (Gbeta5-RGS) commonly known for halting cellular functions may actually stimulate insulin secretion in pancreatic cell...

Insulin release is controlled by the amount of Epac2A at the secretory vesicles

Jul 11, 2017 2:01 pm

Specialized beta cells in the pancreas release the hormone insulin to control our blood glucose levels, and failure of this mechanism is central to the development of type-2 diabetes. How much and whe...

Why Mice Are Not Always The Best Study Model?

Jul 5, 2017 5:00 pm

Research from King's College in London, UK, and Lund University in Sweden could explain why diabetes drugs which have worked in animal experiments are not equally successful in humans. The researc...

Diseases (551)

A Key Finding Offers New Hope For Better Treatment of Tuberculosis

Jul 17, 2017 3:00 pm

New clues found to common respiratory virus

Jul 3, 2017 11:00 am

By age 2, most children have been infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which usually causes only mild cold symptoms. But people with weakened immune systems, such as infants and the elderl...

Link Between Diabetic Mothers and The Neurological Birth Defects of Their Babies

Jun 3, 2017 4:00 pm

A new study has found a link between neurological birth defects in infants commonly found in pregnant women with diabetes and several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson&#...

Endocrinology (16)

Insulin release is controlled by the amount of Epac2A at the secretory vesicles

Jul 11, 2017 2:01 pm

Discovery A Key Switch in Diabetes

Jun 9, 2017 9:00 am

A newly discovered mechanism behind reduced insulin production in type 2 diabetes is now being presented. In an article in Nature Communications, researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy describe how insuli...

Tea consumption Affect Women, But Not Men, In an Unexpected Way!

Jun 5, 2017 9:00 am

Epigenetic changes are chemical modifications that turn our genes off or on. In a new study from Uppsala University, researchers show that tea consumption in women leads to epigenetic changes in genes...

Epigenetics (37)

How The Uterus Mirrors the Mother's World to The Fetus

Jul 13, 2017 9:00 am

A developing fetus bathes in a mixture of cellular secretions and proteins unique to its mother's uterus. Before fertilization, the pH of uterine fluid helps create a conducive environment for spe...

The RNA Molecule That Fixes Broken Telomeres in Cells

Jul 6, 2017 1:00 pm

Researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have further uncovered the secrets of telomeres, the caps that protect the ends of our chromosomes...

The Role of A Single miRNA Molecule in Boosting Breast Cancer

Jul 2, 2017 12:00 pm

Researchers have identified a small RNA molecule that helps maintain the activity of stem cells in both healthy and cancerous breast tissue. The study suggests that this 'microRNA' promotes pa...

Evolution (64)

Can You Guess Who Will Be The last Survivors on Earth?

Jul 17, 2017 1:00 pm

The world's most indestructible species, the tardigrade, an eight-legged micro-animal, also known as the water bear, will survive until the Sun dies, according to a new Oxford University collabora...

How Evolution Sometimes Takes Shortcuts!

Jul 10, 2017 11:01 am

Amid the incredible diversity of living things on our planet, there is a common theme. Organisms need to acquire new genes, or change the functions of existing genes, in order to adapt and survive. ...

If All Eggs Have The Same Function, Why Are They So Different?

Jul 5, 2017 2:02 pm

One of nature's most efficient life-support systems is the egg. Eggs evolved over 300 million years ago as vertebrate animals adapted to living on land. And since then, they've taken on numero...

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Another Reason That Might Make You Eat More Yogurt!

Jul 18, 2017 4:00 pm

Can Zombie Be Real? Well At Least In Insect World It Might Be True!

Jun 14, 2017 1:00 pm

Dying on a bed of flowers might seem like a good way to go. Except it’s not when you’re a beetle suffering a gruesome fungal infection. Goldenrod soldier beetles (Chauliognathus pensylv...

'Unparalleled' number of dinosaur tracks found in Australia

Apr 23, 2017 9:00 pm

An "unprecedented" 21 different types of dinosaur tracks have been found on a stretch of Australia's remote coastline, scientists said Monday, dubbing it the nation's Jurassic Park. ...

Gastroenterology (51)

How Certain Gut Cells Acts As Messengers Between the Guts and the Brain?

Jul 17, 2017 6:00 pm

Specialized cells in the gut sense potentially noxious chemicals and trigger electrical impulses in nearby nerve fibers, according to a new study led by UC San Francisco scientists. "These cells ...

What Controls The Delicate Balance of the Immune System in the Guts?

Jun 26, 2017 3:00 pm

A healthy gut requires a molecule called gp96 to train the immune system to tolerate food and normal microbes, report researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in the May 19, 2017...

A Smart Way To Substitute Antibiotics

Jun 26, 2017 1:00 pm

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common infections, and they tend to come back again and again, even when treated. Most UTIs are caused by E. coli that live in the gut and spread to ...

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Novel gene therapy experiment offers hope for people with certain hearing loss and dizziness disorder

Jun 28, 2017 2:00 pm

In a first-of-its-kind study published in the March 1, 2017 edition of Molecular Therapy, researchers from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) and Johns Hopkin...

Tricking Immune Cells To Stop Allergic Reactions By Gene therapy

Jun 7, 2017 7:00 pm

A single treatment giving life-long protection from severe allergies such as asthma could be made possible by immunology research at The University of Queensland. A team led by Associate Professor ...

Scientists Find a Way to Stop Pathogenesis of Type 1 Diabetes

Jun 6, 2017 7:00 pm

Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory, Cyteir Therapeutics and collaborating institutions have found a way to protect beta cells from destruction -- achieving a longtime, elusive goal that could lead ...

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Can You Guess Who Will Be The last Survivors on Earth?

Jul 17, 2017 1:00 pm

The world's most indestructible species, the tardigrade, an eight-legged micro-animal, also known as the water bear, will survive until the Sun dies, according to a new Oxford University collabora...

Global Open Source for Sharing Scientific Images

Jul 13, 2017 10:01 am

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but only if you understand what you are looking at. The life sciences rely increasingly on 2-D, 3-D and 4-D image data, but its staggering heterogeneity and si...

How Mosquitoes Can Help in Crime Scene Investigations?

Jul 11, 2017 10:00 am

Nagoya University research team shows that human blood extracted from mosquitos remains viable for DNA analysis up to two days after feeding. Most people would agree that painful mosquito bites are...

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How the Immune System Detects Cells With the Wrong Karyotype?

Jun 26, 2017 1:00 pm

Most living cells have a defined number of chromosomes: Human cells, for example, have 23 pairs. As cells divide, they can make errors that lead to a gain or loss of chromosomes, which is usually very...

How First-Cousin Marriages Can Be Good For The Heart!

Jun 8, 2017 2:00 pm

More than 1,800 individuals carrying loss-of-function mutations in both copies of their genes, so-called "human knockouts," are described in the first major study to be published in Nature t...

A Single Molecule Can Correct The Genetic Defect in Cystic Fibrosis

Jun 5, 2017 2:00 pm

Researchers from the George Washington University (GW), the University of Perugia, and the University of Rome have discovered a potential new drug to treat and stop the progression of cystic fibrosis....

Genetics (409)

New discovery Could Help In Finding New Treatments For Several Neurological Diseases

Jul 19, 2017 10:30 am

Using DNA as Videotape

Jul 18, 2017 9:00 am

First Use of Long-Read Genome Sequencing In Clinic

Jul 17, 2017 10:00 am

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First Use of Long-Read Genome Sequencing In Clinic

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How Mosquitoes Can Help in Crime Scene Investigations?

Jul 11, 2017 10:00 am

Study Finds How Our Genes Link Our Health to Our Intelligence

Jul 9, 2017 2:00 pm

What makes some people smarter than others? A genetic analysis of families in Scotland, UK, hints that brainier people have fewer DNA mutations that impair intelligence and general health, rather than...

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Protecting Infants from Zika Infection Using a Malaria Drug

Jul 18, 2017 3:00 pm

Devastating consequences of Zika virus infection are suffered in the womb, where the virus can cause brain damage and sometimes death. Studying pregnant mice, researchers at Washington University S...

New Study Offers Hope To All Women Suffering from Hot Flashs

Jul 14, 2017 5:00 pm

How The Uterus Mirrors the Mother's World to The Fetus

Jul 13, 2017 9:00 am

A developing fetus bathes in a mixture of cellular secretions and proteins unique to its mother's uterus. Before fertilization, the pH of uterine fluid helps create a conducive environment for spe...

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How Blood Vessels are Well Protected Yet More Vulnerable to External Invasion?

Jul 13, 2017 11:00 am

Why Are Scientists Seeking Help from This Tiny Marine Creature?

Jul 10, 2017 12:00 pm

The marine invertebrate Botryllus schlosseri - AKA the star ascidian - has more in common with humans that you’d think - enough to be useful to scientists studying treatment methods for cancer a...

Uncovering The Mechanism Leading to Blood Clots Formation!

Jul 1, 2017 2:00 pm

It may be possible to disrupt harmful blood clots in people at risk for heart attack or stroke without increasing their risk of bleeding, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. ...

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Dengue Transmission Mapping Shows Strains Stay Close to Home

Apr 23, 2017 6:00 pm

Dengue virus is easily transmitted by mosquitos, but when scientists tracked its spread, they found that most people were exposed to the infection within a few minutes' walking distance to their h...

Mimicking Gut Infections to Better Understand Them

Mar 26, 2017 9:00 am

Vaccines and antimicrobials have done more to transform medicine and extend the average human lifespan than any other scientific breakthrough. Yet infectious diseases remain the world's no. 1 lead...

HistoCore PEARL for Tissue Processing is a fully enclosed system providing high-quality processing, simple operation, and enhanced user safety

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Leica Biosystems lately announced the addition of the HistoCore PEARL to their full line of tissue processors. PEARL is a fully enclosed system providing high-quality processing, simple ...

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New Novel Vaccine Against Zika Virus

Jul 18, 2017 10:00 am

Research presented by Farshad Guirakhoo, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, GeoVax, Inc., at the ASM Microbe 2017 meeting showed a new Zika virus vaccine that gives 100% protection in mice. The vaccine ...

How Some Skin Bacteria Contribute to Eczema Flare-ups?

Jul 17, 2017 2:00 pm

How Targeting Brain's Immune Cells Offers Better Treatment for Obesity?

Jul 17, 2017 12:00 pm

Immune cells in the brain trigger overeating and weight gain in response to diets rich in fat, according to a new study in mice led by researchers from UC San Francisco and the University of Washingto...

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Protecting Infants from Zika Infection Using a Malaria Drug

Jul 18, 2017 3:00 pm

Natural resistance to malaria linked to variation in human red blood cell receptors First study to identify protective effect of glycophorin gene rearrangements on malaria

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Researchers have discovered that protection from the most severe form of malaria is linked with natural variation in human red blood cell genes. A study from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the W...

How N. Gonorrhoeae Invade The Site of Infection?

May 15, 2017 11:00 am

The bacterium that causes gonorrhea infects the female reproductive tract by breaking connections between cells in the tract's protective lining, according to new research published in PLOS Pathog...

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How Paracetamol Negatively Affects Male Fetus Development?

Jul 3, 2017 5:00 pm

Paracetamol during pregnancy can inhibit the development of 'male behavior' in mice. New research shows that it can reduce sex drive and aggressive behavior.Paracetamol (acetaminophen) is popu...

New Advances In Studying Infertility in Men

May 27, 2017 3:00 pm

Scientists at the University of Sheffield have developed a new technique to examine human sperm without killing them—helping to improve the diagnosis of fertility problems. The Magnetic Reson...

3D Printing Raise Hope to Cure Infertility Cases for Women

May 19, 2017 9:00 am

3-D printed bioprosthetic mouse ovaries restored fertility in infertile mice and produced healthy mouse pups. The mothers also were able to nurse their pups. The research is targeted to women whose ca...

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Protecting Infants from Zika Infection Using a Malaria Drug

Jul 18, 2017 3:00 pm

Stripping Bacteria of Their Protective Biofilms!

Jul 17, 2017 11:00 am

Biofilms are slimy, glue-like membranes that are produced by microbes in order to colonize surfaces. They protect microbes from the body's immune system and increase their resistance to antibiotic...

How Blood Vessels are Well Protected Yet More Vulnerable to External Invasion?

Jul 13, 2017 11:00 am

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Using This Common Artificial Sweetener As Pesticide

Jun 11, 2017 12:00 pm

Because of its quick lethality to freshly hatched flies and the ability to halt egg production, the artificial sweetener behind Truvia could be a potent but safe pesticide, according to a new study by...

Shedding Light On How Cells Uptake Drugs

Jun 8, 2017 11:00 am

There are treatments for some viral infections and therapies for cancer, one group of such drugs is termed nucleoside analogs. While these drugs work, there is always room for improvement. New researc...

New Sensor Device To Facilitate Diagnosis Cystic Fibrosis

Jun 7, 2017 2:00 pm

We usually do our best to hide our sweating, but chemicals in perspirations can offer important clues about our health. Importantly, levels of sodium, potassium, glucose, and lactate, along with pH an...

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Protecting Infants from Zika Infection Using a Malaria Drug

Jul 18, 2017 3:00 pm

Prolonging Peptides Half-Lives From Minutes to Days!

Jul 18, 2017 2:00 pm

EPFL scientists have developed a ligand molecule that connects peptide drugs to blood-serum albumin and keeps them from being cleared out by the kidneys too soon. The ligand is easy to synthesize and ...

Why Mice Are Not Always The Best Study Model?

Jul 5, 2017 5:00 pm

Research from King's College in London, UK, and Lund University in Sweden could explain why diabetes drugs which have worked in animal experiments are not equally successful in humans. The researc...

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Planned Clinical Trials for a New Gene Therapy That Can Save Children's Lives

May 31, 2017 11:00 am

Approximately 250 babies are born in the U.S. each year with Type 1 SMA. Another 5,000 children have a Type 2 SMA, a milder form of the disease that Avexis would also like to target with its gene ther...

The Enormous Uncovered Potentials of Fungi

May 3, 2017 9:00 am

Fungi are a potential goldmine for the production of pharmaceuticals. This is shown by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, who have developed a method for finding new antibiotics from na...

Getting A Step Closer to the Artificial Organism

Mar 20, 2017 9:00 am

A global research team has built five new synthetic yeast chromosomes, meaning that 30 percent of a key organism's genetic material has now been swapped out for engineered replacements. This is on...

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Scientists Make Heat Even More Hotter for Cancer Cells

Jul 11, 2017 11:00 am

Mineko Kengaku, Tatsuya Murakami, and their colleagues from Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) have developed a new method that modifies the surface of nano...

The Era of Micro-Reactors!

Jul 5, 2017 3:00 pm

Science is getting smaller. From two-dimensional new materials to nano-robots, many of the latest advances are being made at scales impossible to see with the human eye. The latest technique to sha...

New Technology Paralyzes Cancer Cells!

Jul 2, 2017 1:00 pm

Most cancers kill by invading distant parts of the body where treatment is more difficult to reach. But cancer’s ability to metastasize depends on the cell’s so-called ‘legs’ -...

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New discovery Could Help In Finding New Treatments For Several Neurological Diseases

Jul 19, 2017 10:30 am

How Certain Gut Cells Acts As Messengers Between the Guts and the Brain?

Jul 17, 2017 6:00 pm

Specialized cells in the gut sense potentially noxious chemicals and trigger electrical impulses in nearby nerve fibers, according to a new study led by UC San Francisco scientists. "These cells ...

Using Electrical Stimulation To Guide Neural Stem Cells!

Jul 17, 2017 4:00 pm

Electric fields can be used to guide neural stem cells transplanted into the brain towards a specific location. The research, published July 11 in the journal Stem Cell Reports, opens possibilities fo...

Nutrition (59)

Why Should You Get More Tomato In your Diet?

Jul 16, 2017 9:00 am

Another Reasons Why Moms Should Avoid High Fat Food While Being Pregnant

Jul 10, 2017 5:01 pm

Malaria Parasites Adapt With Their Hosts in an Unusual Way

Jul 9, 2017 1:00 pm

Even though malaria still kills one child every minute, the vast majority of those infected still survive, with roughly 200 million new infections every year. A new study has shown that the infectious...

Obesity (31)

How Targeting Brain's Immune Cells Offers Better Treatment for Obesity?

Jul 17, 2017 12:00 pm

Can House Dust Really Play a Role in Obesity?

Jul 14, 2017 1:00 pm

Poor diet and a lack of physical activity are major contributors to the world's obesity epidemic, but researchers have also identified common environmental pollutants that could play a role. Now o...

Malaria Parasites Adapt With Their Hosts in an Unusual Way

Jul 9, 2017 1:00 pm

Ophthalmology (19)

How The Bacteria In The Eyes Help Protecting Them?

Jul 13, 2017 1:00 pm

Bugs in your eyes may be a good thing. Resident microbes living on the eye are essential for immune responses that protect the eye from infection, new research shows. The study, which appears in the j...

The Factor That Acts Like a Double Edged Sword in Neurology!

Jul 6, 2017 3:01 pm

Investigators report on a transcription factor that they have found that can help certain neurons regenerate, while simultaneously killing others.The optic nerve is vital for vision -- damage to this ...

What Would a Light Sensing Protein Do in The Brain?!

Jul 4, 2017 12:01 pm

Six biological pigments called rhodopsins play well-established roles in light-sensing in the fruit fly eye. Three of them also have light-independent roles in temperature sensation. New research show...

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How Fetus' Genes Can Be Toxic On The Pregnant Mother?

Jun 24, 2017 9:00 am

A major new international study has revealed for the first time that some features in a baby's DNA can increase the risk of its mother developing pre-eclampsia -- a potentially dangerous condition...

Clinical Trials to Treat Children With Autism Using Cord Blood

Jun 22, 2017 12:00 pm

Although additional research is needed, scientists at Duke Health are reporting results from a small, early-stage study of an experimental autism therapy for children using their own umbilical cord bl...

NEBNext® Ultra™ II RNA Library Prep with Sample Purification Beads

Jun 3, 2017 6:00 pm

New England Biolabs (NEB®) today announced the expansion of their NEBNext Ultra II NGS library preparation product portfolio to include kits for RNA. The strand-specific NEBNext Ultra II Direction...

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A Novel Drug for Slowing the Progression of Heart Valve Disease

Jun 26, 2017 10:00 am

A monoclonal antibody-based drug called SYN0012 is currently being investigated in human clinical trials for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease. However, the anti-inflammator...

Bone Health Affected By Prenatal life

Jun 21, 2017 2:00 pm

The health of children’s bones could be determined before they are born, a new study has shown.Researchers from the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and the Institute of Developmental Sciences a...

Doctors Should Be Aware of This Hidden Effect Of Malaria On Patients

Jun 7, 2017 5:00 pm

Malaria caused by Plasmodium parasites is a life-threatening infectious disease that kills at least half a million people annually while causing over 200 million new infections. In some cases, complic...

Otolaryngology (2)

Sensory cell regeneration, the new path in treating hearing loss.

May 20, 2017 2:00 pm

In an apparent first, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have used genetic manipulation to regenerate auditory hair cells in adult mice. The research marks a possible advance in t...

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