Zika virus infection may multiply risk of miscarriage, stillbirth
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) Researchers at six National Primate Research Centers (NPRCs) combined results from individual studies to find that 26 percent of pregnancies in 50 monkeys infected with Zika virus during the first trimester of pregnancy ended in miscarriage or stillbirth, dwarfing the nearly 8 percent rate found earlier this year by a study of women infected with Zika early in pregnancy. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - July 2, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
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The Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of Naturalists, and the Society of Systematic Biologists have sent a statement to the Environmental Protection Agency expressing "significant concerns regarding the proposed EPA rule" on the use of scientific data in decision-making. The three organizations, who collectively represent more than 4,600 scientists, warned that the proposed limitations and restrictions on the kind of data that can be used to guide decision-making would "bias the data used by EPA...".
President Trump has nominated Mary Neumayr to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ...
Source: Public Policy Reports - June 25, 2018 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
Scientists take a journey into the lungs of mice infected with influenza
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) A new tool they call FluVision allows UW-Madison researchers to witness influenza infection in a living animal in action, helping them better understand what happens when a virus infects the lungs and the body responds. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - June 25, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Dynamic modeling helps predict the behaviors of gut microbes
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) A new study provides a platform for predicting how microbial gut communities work and represents a first step toward understanding how to manipulate the properties of the gut ecosystem. This could allow scientists to, for example, design a probiotic that persists in the gut or tailor a diet to positively influence human health. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 22, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Researchers uncover new target to stop cancer growth
(Rockefeller University Press) Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that a protein called Munc13-4 helps cancer cells secrete large numbers of exosomes -- tiny, membrane-bound packages containing proteins and RNAs that stimulate tumor progression. The study, which will be published June 21 in the Journal of Cell Biology, could lead to new therapies that stop tumor growth and metastasis by halting exosome production. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - June 21, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
