Violence experienced during childhood tends to place a toll on the child's DNA which makes them age faster than other children, researchers from Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy reported in Molecular Psychiatry. Put simply, a child who experienced violence may subsequently become biologically older than his/her actual years. ...

About 350,000 Canadians suffer from atrial fibrillation, according to estimates of the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation. A new study, in the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), shows a strong link between an irregular heartbeat or atrial fibrillation (AF), and a higher risk of dementia. The ...

This press release is available in French . Vancouver, B.C. (Wednesday, February 15, 2012) In 1997, a forest fire in Indonesia ignited an area of peatlands that smouldered for months. By the time it was over, the fire had released greenhouse ...

Shenzhen, China - BGI, the world's largest genomics organization and Asia Cancer Research Group (ACRG), a not-for-profit organization established to accelerate research and ultimately improve treatment for patients affected with the most commonly-diagnosed cancers in Asia, jointly announced a new collaboration on cancer genomics research as part of ACRG's mission ...

A new genetic resource from an international research consortium is expected to accelerate the development of new cures and treatments for a wide range of human diseases. This project, called the mouse "Collaborative Cross" (CC) resource, will increase the likelihood that experiments conducted in mice will advance our understanding of ...

TAMPA, Fla. A new patent has been issued to Moffitt Cancer Center for a computerized system that efficiently selects the right patient for the right clinical trial. The newly patented system matches the registered patient's own molecular profile warehoused in a database of thousands of patient-donated biological tissue ...

A new patent has been issued to Moffitt Cancer Center for a computerized system that efficiently selects the right patient for the right clinical trial. The newly patented system matches the registered patient's own molecular profile – warehoused in a database of thousands of patient-donated biological tissue or tumor samples ...

A large, prospective study led by a researcher at Rush University Medical Center indicates that chronic exposure to particulate air pollution may accelerate cognitive decline in older adults.

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) A new patent has been issued to Moffitt Cancer Center for a computerized system that efficiently selects the right patient for the right clinical trial. The newly patented system matches the registered patient's own molecular profile - warehoused in a database of ...

A Hamilton family is giving McMaster University $30 million to accelerate the university's innovations in health research, education and care.

Academic and government leaders announced today the establishment of a major new research institute at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center that will blend the best attributes of academic and industrial research to identify and validate new cancer targets, convert such scientific knowledge into new cancer drugs, and ...

Electronic infrastructures open new horizons for collaboration and acceleration of the research on world's biodiversity. International collaborative platforms, such as scratchpads.eu , yield opportunities, unknown before, to scientists to put together historical and newly collected data coming from different sources and working groups, says a special issue ...