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(Salk Institute) Salk researchers have identified how tumors cause immune cells to lose their ability to fight cancer, by producing harmful fats the energy-hungry immune cells ingest, impairing their functionality. The u...

(Van Andel Research Institute) Much like a supply truck crossing the countryside, the misfolded proteins that damage neurons in Alzheimer's disease travel the "roads" of the brain, sometimes stopping and sometimes re-rou...

(Kobe University) An inter-university research group has succeeded in constructing the gene expression network behind the vascular development process in plants. They achieved this by performing bioinformatics analysis u...

(AIDS Clinical Trials Group) The AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG), the largest global HIV research network, today announced the launch of A5386, a phase 1 HIV cure study evaluating two promising therapies. A5386 will st...

(Penn State) The American Medical Association (AMA) has awarded Penn State College of Medicine $1.8 million to lead a five-year, multi-institution initiative that aims to better prepare resident physicians to practice me...

(Association for Molecular Pathology) AMP has published consensus recommendations to aid in the design and validation of clinical CYP2D6 assays, promote standardization of testing across different laboratories and improv...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Medical education aspires to mitigate bias in future professionals by providing a robust curriculum that includes perspectives and practices for caring for sexual and gender minorit...

(University of Toronto) New research published online in the journal Substance Use & Misuse is good news for those struggling with alcohol dependence: the possibility of ending this dependency gets easier with age. Moreo...

(Case Western Reserve University) Case Western Reserve University researcher Farren Briggs was awarded $1.2 million over three years from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) at the Nationa...

(Boston College) Ketogenic metabolic therapy has been shown to successfully starve cancer cells of the glucose and glutamine they need to survive. In a new case study, a British man who rejected the standard of care to t...

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) A new study found that 18- to 24-year-olds who use cell phones while driving are more likely to engage in other risky driving behaviors associated with "acting-without-thinking," a f...

(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear the importance of understanding precisely how diseases spread throughout networks of transportation. In a paper publishing on Thursday...

(Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia - IIT) The research team led by Monica Gori at the IIT- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia has recently published a study, which shows for the first time how children aged from 3 to 5 years ...

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) A new study by UCLA researchers suggests that the group of antidepressants commonly known as MAOIs may help the immune system attack cancer. Their findings are rep...

(Medical University of South Carolina) Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina and Harvard Medical School have identified a previously unknown early driver of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementi...

(University of Pittsburgh) Americans are consuming more higher alcohol-content craft beer but are drinking less beer by volume, according to a new analysis led by epidemiologists at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate ...

(The University of Bergen) The 2020 and 2021 Holberg Prizes were conferred upon Professor Griselda Pollock and Professor Martha C. Nussbaum, respectively.

(Marine Biological Laboratory) Many animals have evolved camouflage tactics for self-defense, but some butterflies and moths have taken it even further: They've developed transparent wings, making them almost invisible t...

(University of Exeter) The team looked in different regions of the brain, which are affected in Alzheimer's disease before looking for common changes across these cortical regions. They identified 220 sites in the genome...

(West Virginia University) Randy Nelson -- chair of the WVU Department of Neuroscience and director of basic science research for the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute -- and his colleagues reviewed some of the most fre...

(University of Vermont) When nature vanishes, people of color and low-income Americans disproportionally lose critical environmental and health benefits--including air quality, crop productivity and disease control--a ne...

(Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research) A Ludwig Cancer Research study adds to growing evidence that immune cells known as macrophages inhabiting the body cavities that house our vital organs can aid tumor growth by distr...