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UCLA scientists take promising step towards killing mosquitoes that carry Zika virus and dengue fever

Five UCLA researchers were part of an international team that has used X-rays to reveal the structure of a molecule that is toxic to disease-carrying mosquitoes.

18 Oct 2016

MIT neuroscientists identify brain cells that play vital role in controlling appetite

MIT neuroscientists have discovered that brain cells called glial cells play a critical role in controlling appetite and feeding behavior.

18 Oct 2016

UAB investigators receive BRAIN Initiative award to study new DBS technology for Parkinson's disease

The University of Alabama at Birmingham has received a BRAIN Initiative grant of $7.3 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health to study new technology that could improve outcomes from deep brain stimulation, an increasingly important treatment for Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders.

18 Oct 2016

Standard hormone supplement after radiotherapy could increase risk of prostate cancer recurrence

A new study at the University of York has shown that a standard hormone supplement, used to boost energy levels in prostate cancer patients following radiotherapy, could potentially increase the chances of the cancer returning.

18 Oct 2016

Scientists identify novel strategy to treat pancreatic cancer

Researchers have found that a protein called SLC6A14 is overexpressed by several fold in pancreatic tumors taken from patients and in cancerous pancreatic cells lines compared with normal pancreatic tissue or normal pancreatic cells.

18 Oct 2016

Chemotherapy leads to drug-resistance in bladder cancer patients

Chemotherapy is indicated as the first line of treatment for advanced bladder cancer. New research by Weill Cornell Medicine and University of Trento scientists shows that while chemotherapy kills the most common type of bladder cancer, urothelial cancer, chemotherapy also shapes the genetic evolution of remaining urothelial cancer cell clones to become drug-resistant.

18 Oct 2016

Porvair announce record sales of microplate evaporators

Porvair Sciences has confirmed that 2016 will see record sales of its Ultravap and Minivap ranges of blowdown evaporators to laboratories worldwide. The company first began selling nitrogen blowdown evaporators for microplate sample drying in 1999.

From Porvair Sciences Limited 18 Oct 2016

NYU Langone's cancer researcher receives Outstanding Investigator Award from NCI

Throughout her distinguished career, cancer researcher Dafna Bar-Sagi, PhD, has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of the mechanisms that drive the disease.

18 Oct 2016

New OU photothermal therapy may eliminate tumors without affecting healthy cells in the body

A staggering 1.7 million persons in the United States will be diagnosed with cancer in 2016, with 600,000 cases ending in death. University of Oklahoma researchers have collaborated to design a novel, non-invasive cancer therapy that could eliminate tumors without affecting the healthy cells in the body.

18 Oct 2016

Sleep abnormality may play vital role in schizophrenia, say BIDMC experts

A sleep abnormality likely plays an important role in schizophrenia, according to sleep experts at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

18 Oct 2016

Innovative combined therapy could effectively fight tumors

Researchers wish to treat tumors more effectively in the future by combining radiation therapy and focused ultrasound. The joint project SONO-RAY began on October 1st, 2016.

17 Oct 2016

Finnish researchers identify molecular mechanism that controls migration of early macrophages

Leukocytes which arise during the embryonic period regulate iron metabolism and the growth of the mammary gland in adults.

17 Oct 2016

How could emerging technologies impact cancer care?

The major innovations in cancer diagnosis, therapy/palliative care and surgical intervention are too numerous to list here. But enormous strides have taken place in stem cell therapy, monoclonal antibody therapy and genetic screening.

17 Oct 2016

Innovative new digital pathology network to benefit millions of patients

A pioneering digital histopathology partnership between Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals and Philips offering a groundbreaking solution to the growing demand for specialist histopathology services at a time when fewer pathologists are entering the profession has been launched.

17 Oct 2016

Researchers discover brain signature that may help identify fibromyalgia patients

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered a brain signature that identifies fibromyalgia sufferers with 93 percent accuracy, a potential breakthrough for future clinical diagnosis and treatment of the highly prevalent condition.

17 Oct 2016

UT Southwestern researcher wins prestigious 2016 Transformative Research Award

Dr. Rama Ranganathan, Director of the Cecil H. and Ida Green Comprehensive Center for Molecular, Computational, and Systems Biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been awarded a prestigious 2016 Transformative Research Award from the National Institutes of Health's Common Fund.

17 Oct 2016

Early-life soy protein diet may protect against serious bone loss during adulthood

Move over milk, soy protein early in life might be what's needed for strong, healthy bones in adulthood.

17 Oct 2016

Wayne State receives NIH grant to study use of opioid addiction drug to fight relapse in recovering addicts

A team led by Wayne State University School of Medicine researcher Mark Greenwald, Ph.D., will use a four-year, $2,279,723 competitively renewed grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health to explore whether the opioid addiction treatment medication buprenorphine can decrease the magnitude and/or duration of responses to stressors faced by recovering addicts.

15 Oct 2016

Factors secreted by intestinal bacteria may help prevent or treat kidney stones

Researchers have discovered that factors secreted by gut bacteria might help prevent or treat kidney stones.

14 Oct 2016

Scientists at NIH and Emory University induce sustained remission in SIV-infected monkeys

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health and Emory University have experimentally induced sustained remission of SIV, the simian form of HIV, in infected monkeys.

14 Oct 2016

Laboratory News and Research

UCLA scientists take promising step towards killing mosquitoes that carry Zika virus and dengue fever

MIT neuroscientists identify brain cells that play vital role in controlling appetite

UAB investigators receive BRAIN Initiative award to study new DBS technology for Parkinson's disease

Standard hormone supplement after radiotherapy could increase risk of prostate cancer recurrence

Scientists identify novel strategy to treat pancreatic cancer

Chemotherapy leads to drug-resistance in bladder cancer patients

Porvair announce record sales of microplate evaporators

NYU Langone's cancer researcher receives Outstanding Investigator Award from NCI

New OU photothermal therapy may eliminate tumors without affecting healthy cells in the body

Sleep abnormality may play vital role in schizophrenia, say BIDMC experts

Innovative combined therapy could effectively fight tumors

Finnish researchers identify molecular mechanism that controls migration of early macrophages

How could emerging technologies impact cancer care?

Innovative new digital pathology network to benefit millions of patients

Researchers discover brain signature that may help identify fibromyalgia patients

UT Southwestern researcher wins prestigious 2016 Transformative Research Award

Early-life soy protein diet may protect against serious bone loss during adulthood

Wayne State receives NIH grant to study use of opioid addiction drug to fight relapse in recovering addicts

Factors secreted by intestinal bacteria may help prevent or treat kidney stones

Scientists at NIH and Emory University induce sustained remission in SIV-infected monkeys

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