Imagine wearing a device that continuously analyzes your sweat or blood for different types of…
Month: June 2017
Personalized PRRT improves radiation delivery to neuroendocrine tumors
Neuroendocrine cancer is exceedingly difficult to manage and unlikely to be cured, but researchers intend…
Socioeconomic background linked to reading improvement
Neuroscientists have found that dyslexic children from lower income families responded much better to a…
Combining radionuclide therapy with a PARP inhibitor slows neuroendocrine tumor growth
Patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) may experience fewer symptoms and survive longer by undergoing peptide-receptor…
‘DNA is a bully’ that hustles transcribers to targets
“DNA is a bully.” That’s how one researcher sums up the dominant power of DNA…
Animal models can’t ‘tune out’ stimuli, mimicking sensory hypersensitivity in humans
Mice genetically engineered to mimic a type of autism in humans, fragile X syndrome, are…
Western diet increases Alzheimer’s pathology in genetically predisposed mice
Obese mice with a particular version of a gene strongly associated with Alzheimer’s disease in…
Report outlines strategies to address ethnic health care disparities
An analysis of survey data from participants in the Massachusetts General Hospital-based Disparities Leadership Program…
Low levels of vitamin A may fuel TB risk
People with low levels of vitamin A living with individuals sick with tuberculosis may be…
Researchers find glass eels use internal compass to find their way home
Scientists are closer to unraveling the long-standing mystery of how tiny glass eel larvae, which…