Immune cell reprogramming is shown to fight melanoma
lyz:miR223sponge-positive), macrophages (mpeg1:miR223sponge-positive) or both lines, otherwise in the Ras;WT background. J) Bar graph showing the percentage of 1-year-old cancerous adult fish with or without...
How to be a morning person
Author: Georgia Virgili When Rafael Pelayo was a biology student at the University of Puerto Rico, he worked three jobs to pay for his education....
How can Canada reduce the surgical backlog without expanding privatization?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A growing backlog of surgeries during the COVID-19 pandemic has revived debate in Canada about the merits of allowing patients to...
How inexpensive headphones can make newborn hearing screening affordable
A team led by researchers from the University of Washington has created a new hearing test system that uses a smartphone and headphones. Here, lead...
Vaccines could be a game-changer in the fight against malaria in Africa
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Developing an effective malaria vaccine has proven to be a much more difficult task than developing a vaccine to protect humans...
Motor units in the spinal cord may be much more flexible than we thought
Nature Neuroscience (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-022-01165-8" width="698" height="530"/> Author: Marshall et al. Neuroscience of nature (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-022-01165-8 When humans and other mammals perform voluntary movements,...
Does adversity make you stronger? Scientists say not always
Steve Biandalillo poses for a portrait at the Northwestern Nazarene University Library in Nampa, Idaho, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. A social work major, he sees...
A study shows a 30% increase in the incidence of stroke in Hong Kong
Author: University of Hong Kong Researchers from the Stroke Research and Prevention Group (HKU Stroke) at the Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS...
Scientists point to another shrewd maneuver HIV uses to hijack human cells
551 in the activation cycle. Each kinase reaction was performed with Btk alone or in the presence of HIV-1 Nef wild-type (WT), PxxP to AxxA...
Protein kinase CK2 plays a key role in killer T cells during Listeria monocytogenes infection
Electron micrograph of the flagellated bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, magnified 41,250 times. Credit: CDC/public domain Protein kinase CK2 is involved in a wide range of biological...