Hybrid protein deregulates complement in dense deposit disease Dense deposit disease is a rare congenital disorder that is associated with complement dysfunction and often results in end stage renal disease within 10 years of the initial diagnosis. A ...

Fruit fly studies help scientists swat aggressive relapsing leukemia CINCINNATI – Using genetic information initially uncovered in fruit fly studies, scientists have developed a unique therapeutic strategy that stops an aggressive and ...

Aging cells unravel their DNA Senescent cells, which are metabolically active but no longer capable of dividing, contribute to aging, and senescence is a key mechanism for preventing the spread of cancer cells. A study in The Journal of Cell Biology ...

Tweaking energy consumption to combat muscle wasting and obesity Using a new technique to evaluate working muscles in mice, researchers have uncovered physiological mechanisms that could lead to new strategies for combating metabolism-related disorders ...

Guidelines 2.0: New guideline development checklist for health researchers Researchers hope that a comprehensive new checklist will help guideline developers/organizations around the world create and implement better recommendations for health ...

Personalized vaccine for most lethal type of brain tumor shows promise CHICAGO – Patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) treated with an experimental vaccine made from the patient's own resected tumor tissue showed an improved survival compared ...

Gene variant exacerbates inflammatory arthritis in mice Study reveals new mechanism for arthritis progression (SALT LAKE CITY)—University of Utah researchers have discovered a naturally occurring genetic variation in mice that predisposes carriers toward ...

Do degrading TV portrayals of women cause gender harassment? A new study in Psychology of Women Quarterly considers whether objectifying women in television and harassment are causally linked. Researchers Silvia Galdi, Anne Maass, and Mara Cadinu designed two ...

5 effective parenting programs to reduce problem behaviors in children All parents want what's best for their children. But not every parent knows how to provide their child with the tools to be successful, or how to help them avoid the biggest adolescent behavior ...

Linking social science and ecology to solve the world's environmental problems Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS) at James Cook University are engaging social science ...

NTU scientists discover potential vaccine for malaria Scientists from Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have discovered a key process during the invasion of the blood cell by the Malaria parasite, and more importantly, found a way to block ...

Alzheimer substance may be the nanomaterial of tomorrow Amyloid protein causes diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. But amyloid also carries unique characteristics that may lead to the development of new composite ...

Nanoparticles and their orbital positions Physicists have developed a "planet-satellite model" to precisely connect and arrange nanoparticles in three-dimensional structures. Inspired by the photosystems of plants and algae, these artificial nanoassemblies ...

VTT: Biorefinery business could put the South Australian forest industry back on the growth track VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, at the request of the South Australian State Government, studied the condition of the forest sector ...

Brain waves encode information as time signals How information is processed and encoded in the brain is a central question in neuroscience, as it is essential for high cognitive function such as learning and memory. Theta-gamma ...

Nanofriction on the tip of the microscope A new research paper from SISSA published in Nature Materials Atomic force microscopes are able to reproduce spectacular images, at the scale of single atoms. This is made possible by the ...

Families urged to get to the heart of their medical histories this Christmas Doctors are encouraging people to take advantage of Christmas gatherings with relatives to discuss family medical histories to help tackle ill-health. The call from clinical ...

Golden trap: Highly sensitive system to detect individual molecules Medical diagnostics is searching for substances capable of documenting early on whether a serious disease is developing or what its course will be. In many cases, the treacherous ...

Ultrafast heating of water -- This pot boils faster than you can watch it Novel method opens new paths for experiments with heated samples of biological relevance Scientists from the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science have devised a novel ...

New classification system to improve scheduling of emergency surgery highlighted in BJS issue Researchers in Finland have implemented a classification system for emergency operations that allows for a fair and efficient way to manage a large volume of such surgery. The system ...

A Terahertz generator with the highest signal quality This news release is available in Spanish. Terahertz waves (THz) are found on the furthest extreme of the infrared band, just before the beginning of the microwave band. "This area is possibly the last range of the electromagnetic ...

EU membership may have led to allergy increase in rural Poland Poland's entry into the EU may have had the surprising consequence of increasing allergies in rural villages, according to a new study. Surveys show that the prevalence of atopy, a predisposition ...

Life's not a squeeze for pregnant women Pregnant women accurately judge the space needed to accommodate their growing bodies Despite their changed body size, pregnant women are just as good as other people at judging whether they are able to fit through openings, ...

Brittle-bone babies helped by fetal stem cell grafts Osteogeneis imperfecta (OI) is a congenital bone disease that causes stunted growth and repeated, painful fracturing. Ultrasound scans can reveal fractures already in the fetus, and now an international team of researchers ...

Nearby failed stars may harbor planet Pasadena, CA— Astronomers, including Carnegie's Yuri Beletsky, took precise measurements of the closest pair of failed stars to the Sun, which suggest that the system harbors a third, planetary-mass object.The research is published as a letter ...