BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 4 (TNSjou) -- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center issued the following news: * * * BIDMC Study Could Yield New Therapeutic Target Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have uncovered a new clue to one of pregnancy's enduring mysteries: what determines when labor begins? In a study published in Science, the investigators found that a molecule best known for its role in cellular metabolism and aging also helps regulate the timing of labor. The findings offer new insight into the causes of pre more PR

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Aug. 3 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * How does a deadly chicken virus escape vaccines designed to slow it? * UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -A highly contagious herpes virus causes Marek's disease, a deadly illness that mainly infects chickens. While it does not make people sick, the virus causes tumors and paralysis in chickens and, if unchecked, can spread rapidly through entire flocks. Beginning in the 1970s, widespread vaccination for the virus greatly reduced its impact on the po more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (TNSjou) -- The Smithsonian Institution issued the following news release: * * * Smithsonian Scientists Resolve the Hawaiian Honeycreeper Family Tree Family Tree Includes All Species Known at the Time of European Arrival to the Hawaiian Islands - Smithsonian researchers have identified the genetic relationships among all the Hawaiian honeycreeper species that were known to exist--and have subsequently faced major losses--since the arrival of Europeans to the islands. The study, published today in the Proceedings of the N more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, Aug. 4 (TNSjou) -- The UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center issued the following news release: * * * Combination of targeted therapies could help overcome treatment resistance in advanced prostate cancer UCLA-led study identifies a strategy to make antibody-drug conjugates more effective against metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer - UCLA researchers have identified a promising strategy to make a new class of targeted cancer therapies more effective against one of the deadliest forms of prosta more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, Aug. 4 (TNSjou) -- The UCLA Health issued the following news release: * * * UCLA scientists build 'cell villages' to map the genetics of brain cell fitness Key Takeaways * UCLA researchers grew brain cells from dozens of genetically distinct donors together in a cell village, then built a statistical tool called Townlet to measure each donor's cell fitness -- how well their cells grow and survive. * The platform has identified three findings: cells with a chromosome deletion linked to autism consistently grew faste more PR