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Research provides clues for understanding and optimizing bone marrow transplants

Bone marrow transplants, which involve transplanting healthy blood stem cells, offer the best treatment for many types of cancers, blood disorders and immune diseases. Even though 22,000 of these procedures are performed each year in the US, much remains to be understood about how they work.

9 Jan 2019

Experimental drug can protect against Ebola in a single dose

There is a new medication that in one dose successfully protected nonhuman primates against a lethal infection of all strains of the deadly Ebola virus. The findings are now available in Cell Host & Microbe.

9 Jan 2019

Mapping a person's genetic makeup can help save billions each year in health costs

A UniSA scientist has called for Australia to embrace pharmacogenetic (PGx) testing to deliver medication more effectively and slash around $2.4 billion wasted each year through unsafe and ineffective drug prescriptions.

9 Jan 2019

University of Cincinnati professor awarded $1.6 million NIAID grant to study Hamburger E. coli

Alison Weiss, PhD, professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology in UC College of Medicine, has been awarded a four-year grant of $1.6 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli 0157:H7, also sometimes referred to as Hamburger E. coli.

9 Jan 2019

Study: Two-thirds of stroke survivors are in complete mental health

Two-thirds of stroke survivors are in complete mental health despite the impact of their stroke, according to a large, nationally representative Canadian study conducted by researchers at the University of Toronto's Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work.

9 Jan 2019

Chemical in sunscreen and cosmetics may harm coral by altering fatty acids

Although sunscreen is critical for preventing sunburns and skin cancer, some of its ingredients are not so beneficial to ocean-dwelling creatures. In particular, sunscreen chemicals shed by swimmers are thought to contribute to coral reef decline.

9 Jan 2019

Mechanism underlying impaired allergic inflammation in children may explain hygiene hypothesis

The hygiene hypothesis may explain why asthma and other allergic airway diseases have dramatically increased over the past decades in industrialized countries.

9 Jan 2019

NorthShore and Color partner to deliver the power of genomics in routine primary care

NorthShore University HealthSystem and Color today announced a groundbreaking partnership to deliver the power of genomics to routine primary care at population scale.

9 Jan 2019

Study finds simple solution to common bowel issues

Most people aren't eager to talk about how to improve bowel movements, but researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center found the solution to common bowel issues may be as simple as boosting your feet on a stool.

9 Jan 2019

Mice sleeping fitfully help unravel mystery of insomnia

Mice that sleep fitfully could help researchers unravel the mystery of insomnia. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis studied mice genetically modified to mimic the genetic disease neurofibromatosis type 1, which is associated with sleep problems.

9 Jan 2019

Newly launched initiative helps children learn simple ways to keep the brain healthy

My Brain Robbie, a fantastic new initiative to promote brain health among school going children, has been launched through the Pilot Awards for Global Brain Health Leaders, an initiative of the Global Brain Health Institute, Alzheimer's Association and Alzheimer's Society UK.

9 Jan 2019

Schizophrenia patients have higher levels of antibodies against Epstein-Barr virus, study shows

New research from Johns Hopkins Medicine and Sheppard Pratt Health System shows that people in the study with schizophrenia also have higher levels of antibodies against the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis, so-called mono.

9 Jan 2019

Study of Millennials highlights social media behaviors linked with major depression

Certain social media factors were linked with major depressive disorder (MDD) in a Journal of Applied Biobehavioural Research study of Millennials.

9 Jan 2019

Metabolite from berries and pomegranates can mitigate inflammatory bowel disease

Millions of people suffer from inflammatory bowel disease worldwide, either in the form of ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease, and few effective long-term treatments are available. Chronic intestinal inflammation is a hallmark of IBD.

9 Jan 2019

Olympus and USC announce new partnership to advance cancer research

The University of Southern California and Olympus have announced their first-ever co-development partnership with the goal of advancing multiscale research into cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment through precision medicine.

From Evident Corporation - Life Sciences 9 Jan 2019

Study finds correlation between perceived maternal stress and overweight children

Overweight is unhealthy. Yet more and more people in Germany are overweight, particularly children. As part of the LiNA mother-child study coordinated by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, researchers were able to identify mother's perceived stress during the first year of the child's life as a risk factor for developing overweight in infancy.

9 Jan 2019

Research News and Research

Research provides clues for understanding and optimizing bone marrow transplants

Experimental drug can protect against Ebola in a single dose

Mapping a person's genetic makeup can help save billions each year in health costs

University of Cincinnati professor awarded $1.6 million NIAID grant to study Hamburger E. coli

Study: Two-thirds of stroke survivors are in complete mental health

Chemical in sunscreen and cosmetics may harm coral by altering fatty acids

Mechanism underlying impaired allergic inflammation in children may explain hygiene hypothesis

NorthShore and Color partner to deliver the power of genomics in routine primary care

Study finds simple solution to common bowel issues

Mice sleeping fitfully help unravel mystery of insomnia

Newly launched initiative helps children learn simple ways to keep the brain healthy

Schizophrenia patients have higher levels of antibodies against Epstein-Barr virus, study shows

Study of Millennials highlights social media behaviors linked with major depression

Metabolite from berries and pomegranates can mitigate inflammatory bowel disease

Olympus and USC announce new partnership to advance cancer research

Study finds correlation between perceived maternal stress and overweight children

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Neurons produced after a stroke fail to develop properly, research finds

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