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(Toho University ) Japanese scientists at Toho University in Tokyo discovered a new mechanism to generate regulatory T cells (Treg cells), lymphocytes preventing autoimmunity and excess immune responses. They found that ...

Mucus (shown in pink) is secreted by a cell in the stomach. (Credit: The Path to Digestion Is Paved with Repair. Underwood J, PLoS Biology Vol. 4/9/2006, e307. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040307) We know it best as a strin...

(University of Copenhagen) A seemingly harmless concussion can cause the loss of a job -- especially for patients who are in their thirties and for those with a higher education. According to a large new study, these pat...

(CincyTech) Blue Water Vaccines, a company developing a universal flu vaccine based on technology developed at the University of Oxford, has closed a $7 million seed capital round led by CincyTech. The round was oversubs...

(University of Edinburgh) Patients with advanced cancer are to test a therapy aimed at reducing their symptoms and improving quality of life.

(American Heart Association) More patients may be having cardiac arrests in the hospital than previously believed.The health burden of in-hospital adult cardiac arrest is about 38% greater than earlier reports and 18% gr...

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) The Alberta Diabetes Institute will host a new clinical trial for an anti-obesity drug targeting people with rare genetic conditions that contribute to their obesit...

(MediaSource) More than one-third of Americans are obese, and while more than 250,000 bariatric surgeries are performed annually in the United States, experts at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and 45 wor...

(The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth) A new study by Dartmouth researchers reveals that female fruit flies switch to ethanol-rich food when their eggs are threatened by predatory wasps, and that this adaptation is...

(American Institute of Physics) Microfluidics and learning-on-a-chip research -- involving the manipulation of small amounts of fluids to run miniaturized experiments -- are a prolific research field. But there aren't ye...

(European Society of Cardiology) The Hot Line Press Programme is announced today: six Hot Line press conferences with 27 trials presented, bringing reporters the latest research in cardiology.

(Forschungsverbund Berlin) Cheetah experts in many zoos around the world are at a loss. Despite all their efforts, these cats often do not reproduce in the desired manner. Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo a...

(Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) Extremely premature infants who fail to grow as expected have delayed development of their microbiome, or communities of bacteria and other micro-organisms living in...

(Rockefeller University) Drugs known as potentiators alleviate some symptoms of cystic fibrosis. Researchers recently figured out how these compounds work--a finding that may lead to better drugs that patients can more e...

(Morris Animal Foundation) Data from the Morris Animal Foundation Golden Retriever Lifetime Study shows that inbreeding depression, the result of breeding closely-related individuals, reduces litter sizes in purebred gol...

(Case Western Reserve University) Case Western Reserve University faculty members have received a two-year grant to provide regulatory recommendations for gene-editing research conducted in non-traditional settings. The ...

(ERA-EDTA) The exclusion of patients with kidney diseases from clinical trials remains an unsolved problem that hinders optimal care of these patients. Over 850 million people suffer from kidney diseases worldwide, a num...

(University at Buffalo) A worldwide coalition of researchers and clinicians has agreed that light therapy is among the most effective interventions for the prevention of oral mucositis, painful ulcers in the mouth result...

(Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience) Taniguchi and colleagues developed a new methodology that allows the study of CRISPR-mediated effects in cells while accurately ascertaining the exact DNA changes that caus...

(The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)) Mathematicians' new modeling has identified major sources of interspecies and inter-individual variations in the clinical efficacy of a clock-modulating dr...

(Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters) Research teams led by Dr. Ji Hongbin at the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dr. Zhou Caicun at the Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, To...

(IOS Press) Duchenne muscular dystrophy occurs in boys and is characterized by progressive muscle degeneration and weakness leading to a decline in respiratory function. Strategies to arrest this severe progressive deter...