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When Oxygen Is Short, EGFR Prevents Maturation of Cancer-Fighting miRNAsWith tumor suppressors frozen in adolescence, resistant cancer cells cheat death, a team of researchers led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reports in Nature. |
Released: 5/23/2013 6:00 PM EDT
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center |
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Future Doctors Unaware of Their Obesity BiasTwo out of five medical students have an unconscious bias against obese people, according to a new study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. The study is published online ahead of print in the Journal of Academic Medicine. |
Embargo expired: 5/23/2013 6:00 PM EDT
Released: 5/22/2013 3:00 PM EDT
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center |
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University of Utah Pediatric Fellow Publishes Study on Organ Allocation in Pediatrics JournalUniversity of Utah researchers discovered that over the past 10 years children received more solid organ transplants and fewer children died waiting for a life-saving transplant. |
Released: 5/23/2013 5:00 PM EDT
University of Utah Health Sciences |
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Heart Healthy Lifestyle May Cut Kidney Disease Patients’ Risk of Kidney Failure• Compared with kidney disease patients who had zero or one heart healthy lifestyle component in the ideal range, those with two, three, and four ideal factors had progressively lower risks for kidney failure over four years. • No kidney disease patients with five to seven ideal factors developed kidney failure. • Patients’ risk of dying during the study followed a similar trend |
Embargo expired: 5/23/2013 5:00 PM EDT
Released: 5/17/2013 7:00 AM EDT
American Society of Nephrology (ASN) |
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Texas A&M Research Advances Detection, Diagnosis of Oral Cancer
More effective detection and diagnosis of oral cancer could result from an advance in noninvasive imaging of epithelial tissue by a Texas A&M University researcher. The research is thought to have the potential to change the way doctors look for precancerous and cancerous areas in a patient’s mouth. |
Released: 5/23/2013 4:35 PM EDT
Texas A&M University |
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Gift from Val Skinner Foundation Helps Drive Personalized Medicine at Cancer Institute of New Jersey
A $100,000 gift from the Val Skinner Foundation is helping to drive discoveries in precision medicine at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey. Drilling down to the tiniest of details in examining molecular and genomic information within individual cancers, investigators aim to identify genomic changes and patterns that may influence treatment decisions and potential outcomes. |
Released: 5/23/2013 4:00 PM EDT
Cancer Institute of New Jersey |
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Atomic-Scale Investigations Solve Key Puzzle of LED Efficiency
MIT and Brookhaven Lab scientists use electron microscopy imaging techniques to settle a solid-state controversy and raise new experimental possibilities |
Released: 5/23/2013 4:00 PM EDT
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
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Investing in the Future: UC San Diego’s Federal Research Funding Among Top 10 in Nation Despite Campus’s Relative YouthA study by the National Science Foundation naming the top 10 universities receiving the most federal funding for research and development ranked UC San Diego in 8th place out of 896 colleges that received federal R&D money during the 2011 fiscal year. |
Released: 5/23/2013 4:00 PM EDT
University of California, San Diego |
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Technion Scientists Develop Advanced Biological ComputerUsing only biomolecules, Israeli scientists have developed and constructed an advanced biological transducer, a computing machine capable of manipulating genetic codes, and using the output as new input for subsequent computations. |
Released: 5/23/2013 4:00 PM EDT
American Technion Society |
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Researcher Develops Technique to Detect Breast Cancer in UrineA Missouri S&T researcher has developed a new screening method that uses urinalysis to diagnose breast cancer – and determine its severity – before it could be detected with a mammogram. |
Released: 5/23/2013 4:00 PM EDT
Missouri University of Science and Technology |