Researchers Develop Machine Learning Methods to Accurately Identify, Characterize Metabolism-Disrupting Chemicals
Chemicals in your furniture, plastic housewares and pesticides used in your yard may be making you fat.
Category: Research
Black American Women with Vitamin D Insufficiency More Likely to Test Positive for COVID-19
It is widely known that vitamin D deficiency and obesity are associated with risk of chronic diseases like osteoporosis, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. These findings add COVID-19 to that list.
Researchers Discover How Cancer Cells that Spread to Lymph Nodes Avoid Immune Destruction
Blood pressure drug losartan may help thwart this evasion tactic.
New Research Identifies Key Set of Signals that Control Mucus Production in the Lung
Signals may offer targets for limiting mucus production in lung disease.
Researchers Develop Novel, Woman Controlled Contraceptive Product
Currently being tested in a phase 1 clinical trial.
Sample Preparation in Forensic Toxicological Analysis May Have Huge Impacts on Sample Throughput and Improving Instrument Uptime
Article provides overview of routine biological samples, their components, and ways to process them for downstream analysis.
Metabolic Enzyme Promotes Neuroblastoma Aggressiveness
Potential treatment may prevent cancer cells from hijacking metabolic pathways.
New Computational Technique, Software Identifies Different Cell Types within a Tumor and its Microenvironment
Offers an analytical approach that has no equivalents in the current bioinformatics/systems biology toolbox.
Digital Pens Provide New Insight into Cognitive Testing Results
Use of a digital pen during cognitive assessments allows researchers to identify patterns of test performance that correlate with different measures of cognitive and physical function.
Lottery-Based Incentives Do Not Increase COVID-19 Vaccination Rates
Researchers hope findings will lead to a shift in focus away from ineffective and expensive lotteries, and on to further study of other programs that may more successfully increase vaccine uptake.