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In recent years, scientists have developed drugs can help shrink cancerous tumors. Several of these target P13K, an enzyme involved in cellular growth that is known to contribute to causing cancers. But the anti-cancer d...

(University of Edinburgh) Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have uncovered a potential approach to treat one of the commonest causes of dementia and stroke in older people. Studies with rats found the treatment c...

(Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares) A project coordinated by the Carlos III National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), has been selected by the Leducq Foundation to receive funding of $6,000,00...

(European Molecular Biology Laboratory) The effectiveness of antibiotics can be altered by combining them with each other, non-antibiotic drugs or even with food additives. Depending on the bacterial species, some combin...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) Two physicians from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health write that expanding the availability of medication treatment for opioid use disorder in p...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) A rare juvenile foot fossil of our early hominin ancestor, Australopithecus afarensis, exhibits several ape-like foot characteristics that could have aided in foot gr...

(University of Huddersfield) Former Head of Vascular Surgery at Bradford's Royal Infirmary Professor Peter Vowden gave the opening address at the 3rd International Skin Integrity and Tissue Viability Conference which exp...

(Karolinska Institutet) Pregnant women with type 1 diabetes run a higher risk of having babies with heart defects, especially women with high blood glucose levels during early pregnancy, a study from Karolinska Institute...

(The Earth Institute at Columbia University) India will need to feed approximately 394 million more people by 2050. Meanwhile, many of its regions are chronically water-stressed, and nutrient deficiencies are widespread ...

(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) EPFL scientists have discovered two small-molecule compound series that can effectively block a central pathway of the innate immune system, offering a promising new way for t...

(Radboud University Medical Center) Besides the patient's condition, pneumococcal DNA also appears to provide information about the course of an infection. In the next issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Radboudumc re...

(Osaka University) Osaka University-led researchers revealed that expression of SATB1 was involved in both differences in HSC self-renewal ability and differences in the ability of HSCs to differentiate into lymphocytic ...

(European Lung Foundation) Obstructive sleep apnea is associated with changes to the structure of the brain that are also seen in the early stages of dementia, according to a study published in the European Respiratory J...

(Pensoft Publishers) The open-access scholarly journal ZooKeys marks its 10th anniversary on the awe-inspiring 4th of July. Published today, its 770th issue features a special Editorial, highlighting the milestones and a...