IMAGE: Treatment with fluconazole can lead to genetic changes in Candida albicans that make the fungus capable of mating. view more Credit: Bernardo Ramírez-Zavala/Universität Würzburg The yeast Candida albicans occurs in most healthy people as a harmless colonizer in the digestive tract. However, it can also cause life-threatening infections, especially in immunocompromised patients. These infections are…
IMAGE: A monsoon mist settles over hills in the South Indian state Tamil Nadu during the North East Indian Monsoon season view more Credit: Sara Vankm TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Toward the end of every year, the Northeast Indian Monsoon (NEM) batters southern India with torrents of driving rain, but climatologists have never precisely defined when the…
New research on how cancer mutations influence a certain type of receptor on the cell membrane opens the way for the development of tailored drugs for certain cancers, such as rectal cancer and lung cancer. This according to researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University, who have been collaborating with researchers in the UK…
Routine sequencing has given unprecedented insight into the genetics of rare diseases, but genomics fails to diagnose up to half of patients who are tested. That’s the problem German scientists tackled in a recent study in the journal Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. Using samples from patients in four countries, and a novel database on the…
A new UCLA-led study shows that men with low- or intermediate-risk prostate cancer can safely undergo higher doses of radiation over a significantly shorter period of time and still have the same, successful outcomes as from a much longer course of treatment. This type of radiation, known as stereotactic body radiotherapy, is a form of…
IMAGE: Sonia Kang is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management in the Department of Management at the University of Toronto Mississauga, and holds a cross-appointment to the… view more Credit: Rotman School Toronto – Women’s representation in science and medicine has slowly increased over the past few decades. However, this rise in…
IMAGE: Arthur M. Feldman, MD, PhD, FACC, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University view more Credit: Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (Philadelphia, PA) – Arthur M. Feldman, MD, PhD, FACC, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine…
VIDEO: Sliman Bensmaia and Justin Lieber take you inside the somatosensory lab, where they show you a rotating drum that can measure how 60 different textures feel against the skin. view more Our hands and fingertips are amazingly sensitive to texture. We can easily distinguish coarse sandpaper from smooth glass, but we also pick up more…
BOSTON – Lightheadedness with standing, otherwise known as postural lightheadedness, results from a gravitational drop in blood pressure and is common among adults. While mild in many adults, it has been cited as an important contributing factor in some harmful clinical events, such as falls. As a result, greater sodium intake is widely viewed as…
VIDEO: Armando Pina, of the Arizona State University Department of Psychology, describes an upcoming study in the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. Pina, Antonio Polo from DePaul University, and… view more Hispanic and Latino youth are more likely to drink alcohol at a younger age than their African-American and non-Hispanic Caucasian peers, but they…