News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 4, 2014
Credit: Rhoda Baer
New research indicates that author status affects how frequently scientific papers are cited, but the size of that effect depend...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 3, 2014
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Preclinical research indicates that immune cells undergo daily, spontaneous changes that could lead to diffuse larg...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 3, 2014
(endoplasmic reticulum in
green, mitochondria in red,
and chromosomes in blue)
Wellcome Images
The dynein-binding protein Lis1 is critical for h...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 2, 2014
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Researchers say they have developed a novel technique for inducing pluripotency in somatic cells.
Unlike methods for crea...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 1, 2014
Credit: Rhoda Baer
An analysis of US intensive care units (ICUs) shows uneven compliance with policies for preventing healthcare-associated infecti...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 31, 2014
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The apoptosis inhibitor aurin tricarboxylic acid (ATA) is active against paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinemia (PNH), according to rese...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 31, 2014
Credit: Yuyu Niu et al.
Although monkeys can be useful as models of human disease, precisely modifying their genes has proven difficult.
Now, in...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 30, 2014
A new analysis indicates that animal studies not funded by industry produce favorable results more often than animal studies that are industry-funded....
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 30, 2014
Studies have suggested that mutations in isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 and 2 (IDH1 and IDH2) are present in approximately 20% of all acute myeloid leukem...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 30, 2014
blood cell; Credit: St Jude
Children’s Research Hospital
A school-based, intermittent screening and treatment program for malaria did not confer a...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 29, 2014
the WB-DWI scans
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Institute of Cancer Research
A novel imaging technique could improve care for patients with multiple myelo...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 29, 2014
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News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 28, 2014
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Previous research has indicated that requiring conflict of interest (COI) disclosures may lead advisers to give more biased advi...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 28, 2014
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Childhood cancer patients are no more likely than their healthy peers to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), accord...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 28, 2014
Scientists have long thought that hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are regulated similarly in males and females.
But research conducted in mice has ...
