IMAGE: Martin Borch Jensen, Co-Founder and CSO of Gordian Biotechnology, to present ‘Bringing aging biology into drug development at the 6th Aging Research for Drug Discovery Forum in Basel, Switzerland. view more Credit: Insilico Medicine Monday, April 1, 2019 – Today Insilico Medicine, a biotechnology company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline utilizing the next generation…
IMAGE: The study found that increases in forest and shrub cover corresponded to decreases in health care spending. No such relationship was found with other types of vegetative land cover, however. view more Credit: Graphic by Gopikrishna J. Pillai, Scientific Illustrator CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new study finds that Medicare costs tend to be lower in…
Bottom Line: Huntington disease is one of nine rare hereditary neurodegenerative diseases known as polyglutamine diseases. This observational study estimated how common carriers with intermediate and pathological ranges of polyglutamine disease-associated gene variants were among the general population using data from five European studies that included DNA samples for more than 14,000 participants without a…
Bottom Line: This study compared the risk of childhood cancer diagnosed in the first decade of life among children conceived by in vitro fertilization with those children conceived naturally. Included in the study were almost 276,000 children conceived by IVF and more than 2.2 million other children; 321 cancers were detected among the children conceived…
IMAGE: Heide Ford, Ph.D., and colleagues show that targeting SIX1/EYA may stop breast cancer metastasis. view more Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Many cancers are relatively harmless at their site of origin, and it is only when they metastasize to sites like the brain, bones, lungs, and liver that they become especially dangerous. And so,…
IMAGE: This is an Eccrine Systems advanced sweat sensor worn by an individual pedaling a stationary bike. view more Credit: Eccrine Systems CINCINNATI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Eccrine Systems, Inc. announced today that it is collaborating with Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM) on the development and integration of analog signal processing technologies to drive Eccrine’s sweat sensing platform. Maxim…
AURORA, Colo. (April 1, 2019) – While women outnumber men as Ob/Gyn practitioners, they still make significantly less money and the pay gap extends to subspecialties like reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI), according to researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. “It’s interesting that the Ob/Gyn field is dominated by women and yet…