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Majority of primary care providers could not recognize all risk factors for prediabetes, survey finds

Johns Hopkins researchers who distributed a survey at a retreat and medical update for primary care physicians (PCPs) report that the vast majority of the 140 doctors who responded could not identify all 11 risk factors that experts say qualify patients for prediabetes screening.

20 Jul 2017

Epigenetic dysregulation with age in normal breast tissue may contribute to cancer risk

Several known factors are associated with a higher risk of breast cancer including increasing age, being overweight after menopause, alcohol intake, and family history.

20 Jul 2017

Wastewater may become key ally in the fight against antibiotic-resistant microorganisms

Municipal wastewater may become a key ally in the fight against antibiotic-resistant disease-causing bacteria and fungi, a new study at Stellenbosch University found.

20 Jul 2017

Avantor opens new state-of-the-art Innovation Center in Bridgewater, New Jersey

Avantor, a global supplier of ultra-high-purity materials for customers across the life sciences and advanced technologies sectors, has opened a new research center in Bridgewater, New Jersey (USA) to help biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical customers with a full range of upstream and downstream processes, from gene to protein expression through final formulation and drug delivery.

20 Jul 2017

Researchers receive NIH grant to launch HIV prevention study of gay and bisexual men

The National Institutes for Health has awarded Dr. Christian Grov and his colleagues $2.4 Million to launch a 2-year nationwide HIV prevention study of gay and bisexual men.

19 Jul 2017

Shark scavenging behavior helps scientists identify marks on human bones

Shark feeding habits are helping scientists identify marks on human bones found in the ocean. By analyzing shark scavenging behavior, the University of Florida's C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory identified which marks were left behind by sharks, what species of sharks made the marks and where the feedings might have occurred.

19 Jul 2017

Cohabitating couples influence microbial communities on each other's skin

Couples who live together share many things: Bedrooms, bathrooms, food, and even bacteria. After analyzing skin microbiomes from cohabitating couples, microbial ecologists at the University of Waterloo, in Canada, found that people who live together significantly influence the microbial communities on each other's skin.

19 Jul 2017

New report proposes strategy to evaluate low-dose toxicity of endocrine disruptors

A new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine proposes a strategy that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should use to evaluate the evidence of adverse human health effects from low doses of exposure to chemicals that can disrupt the endocrine system.

18 Jul 2017

Large-scale genetic study of E. coli illustrates complexity of drug resistant 'superbugs'

The first large-scale genetic study of Escherichia coli (E. coli) cultured from patients with bloodstream infections in England showed that drug resistant 'superbugs' are not always out-competing other strains.

18 Jul 2017

New antibiotic-releasing polymer may simplify treatment of prosthetic joint infection

A team of Massachusetts General Hospital investigators has developed an antibiotic-releasing polymer that may greatly simplify the treatment of prosthetic joint infection.

18 Jul 2017

Adding estrogen in the brain may improve health in obese menopausal women

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have found that adding estrogen in the brain may improve health in obese females after menopause.

18 Jul 2017

Researchers discover reason for chemoresistance in small cell lung cancer

Approximately one year after successful treatment with cytotoxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy, patients with advanced Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC), which primarily affects heavy smokers, generally relapse with recurrence of tumours that are resistant to further chemotherapy.

18 Jul 2017

Scientists find simple way to raise accuracy of diagnostic tests and common assays

Scientists at the University of Washington have discovered a simple way to raise the accuracy of diagnostic tests for medicine and common assays for laboratory research.

18 Jul 2017

New technique physically expands tissues to improve breast cancer diagnosis

A Ludwig Cancer Research study offers pathologists a quick, cheap and reliable tool to diagnose diseases such as early breast cancer with a conventional optical microscope.

18 Jul 2017

Researcher models heart attack in petri dishes to gain insights into cardiac diseases

In petri dishes in her campus laboratory at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Alice Lee is developing colonies of cardiac cells, formed into chambers, that pump and contract like a human heart.

18 Jul 2017

New analysis compares emerging algorithms that look for cancer mutations

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute has undertaken the first-ever comparative analysis of a newly emerging category of algorithms that mine genetic information in cancer databases by focusing on internal gene structure (subgene resolution algorithms), in contrast to classical approaches that focus on genes treated as single units.

17 Jul 2017

Laboratory News and Research

Majority of primary care providers could not recognize all risk factors for prediabetes, survey finds

Epigenetic dysregulation with age in normal breast tissue may contribute to cancer risk

Wastewater may become key ally in the fight against antibiotic-resistant microorganisms

Avantor opens new state-of-the-art Innovation Center in Bridgewater, New Jersey

Researchers receive NIH grant to launch HIV prevention study of gay and bisexual men

Shark scavenging behavior helps scientists identify marks on human bones

Cohabitating couples influence microbial communities on each other's skin

New report proposes strategy to evaluate low-dose toxicity of endocrine disruptors

Large-scale genetic study of E. coli illustrates complexity of drug resistant 'superbugs'

New antibiotic-releasing polymer may simplify treatment of prosthetic joint infection

Adding estrogen in the brain may improve health in obese menopausal women

Researchers discover reason for chemoresistance in small cell lung cancer

Scientists find simple way to raise accuracy of diagnostic tests and common assays

New technique physically expands tissues to improve breast cancer diagnosis

Researcher models heart attack in petri dishes to gain insights into cardiac diseases

New analysis compares emerging algorithms that look for cancer mutations

New bioanalytical method could pave way for personalized drug therapy

Researchers develop simple method for capturing proteins implicated in Alzheimer's, other conditions

'Organic gene therapy' could be effective treatment approach for serious blood disorders

Existing drugs could offer new way to treat severe inflammatory skin conditions

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