2015 Science News Archives

2015​

• Gene Editing Offers Hope for Treating Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Studies Find
  December 31, 2015
   
• CRISPR Helps Heal Mice with Muscular Dystrophy
  December 31, 2015
   
• Why Preventing Cancer Is Not the Priority in Drug Development
  December 28, 2015
   
• Creative Minds: Applying CRISPR Technology to Cancer Drug Resistance
  December 10, 2015
   
• Scientists Discover How to Make Youth Last Longer - in Worms
  December 1, 2015
   
• Antidepressant Makes Worms Stay Younger For Longer
  December 1, 2015
   
• New Technology Promises Fast, Accurate Stroke Diagnosis
  November 25, 2015


• Creative Minds: Fighting Cancer with Supercomputers
  November 19, 2015
   
• Child’s Case Serves as ‘Wake-Up Call’ to Drug-Resistant TB, Doctors Say
  November 15, 2015
   
• Knockout Jab: A Vaccine that Rarely Makes the News is a Big Public-Health Success
  November 14, 2015
   
• Breakthrough Prizes Give Top Scientists the Rock Star Treatment
  November 8, 2015
   
• A New Prize Aims to Fire Up Open Science for Health
  October 30, 2015
   
• Creative Minds: Of Arsenic and Misfolded Proteins
  October 29, 2015
   
• Human Genome Project: Twenty-five years of big biology 
  September 30, 2015
   
• Program Helps Patients with Undiagnosed Diseases 
  September 24, 2015
   
• Creative Minds: Searching for Solutions to Chronic Infection
  September 22, 2015
   
• Cool Videos: Reconstructing the Cerebral Cortex
  September 17, 2015
   
• Undiagnosed Diseases Network Launches Online Application Portal 
  September 16, 2015
   
• Genetics, Immunity, and the Microbiome 
  September 16, 2015
   
• Creative Minds: Lessons from Halfway Around the Globe
  September 8, 2015
   
• Internships: Mind Wide Open
  September 2, 2015
   
• Biomarkers and Questionnaires Predict Suicide Risk
  August 31, 2015
   
• The human genome takes shape and shifts over time
  August 24, 2015
   
• Closer Collaboration among Researchers, Execs Needed
  August 22, 2015
   
• NIH Funds New Tools to Crack Genomic Big Data
  August 19, 2015
   
• Studies Reveal How General Anesthesia’s Brain Effects Differ in Older Adults and in Children
  August 15, 2015
   
• Studies Reveal How Anesthesia's Brain Effects Differ in Older Adults and in Children
  August 14, 2015
   
• Narcotic Drugs Can Be Coaxed From Yeast
  August 13, 2015
   
• East Baltimore Biotech Startup among Companies Showcased at White House Demo Day
  August 4, 2015
   
• President Obama Hosts First-Ever White House Demo Day
  August 4, 2015
   
• NIH Program to Fund Research on Molecular Changes Associated With Physical Activity
  July 28, 2015
   
• Narrowing in on Pituitary Tumors
  July 27, 2015
   
• A Scientist Deploys Light And Sound To Reveal The Brain
  July 27, 2015
   
• Creative Minds: Teaming Math and Science for an HIV Cure
  July 23, 2015
   
• Snapshots of Life: A Colorful Look Inside the Retina
  July 16, 2015
   
• The Historic NIH Common Fund Announcement: Door to Physical Activity Research and Opportunities Swings Open 
  July 13, 2015
   
• Emerging Network of Resources for Exploring Paths Beyond Academia  
  July 8, 2015
   
• Creative Minds: Meet a Theoretical Neuroscientist
  July 7, 2015
   
• Science Wants to Know: Can Worms Swim?
  June 29, 2015
   
• Drug Improves Cognition in Alzheimer's Disease-Mouse Model In Spite of Diet
  June 18, 2015
   
• LabTV: Curious About Tuberculosis
  June 11, 2015
   
• NIH Awards $4.1 Million for Neonatal Sepsis Investigation
  June 6, 2015
   
• Schiff Receives NIH Pioneer Award
  June 2, 2015
   
• Single-Cell Analysis: Powerful Drops in the Bucket
  June 2, 2015
   
• Building a Better Electronic Health Record
  May 28, 2015
   
• Harvard Groups Tap Microfluidics for Single-Cell RNA-Seq Methods
  May 26, 2015
   
• Harnessing Technologies to Study Air Pollution's Health Risks
  May 21, 2015
   
• Scientists Cure Disorders in Mice by Resetting their Brains
  May 20, 2015
   
• Albany Med Prize Winners' Work Paves Way to Medical Discoveries
  May 15, 2015
   
• Penn Study Finds that Various Financial Incentives can Help Smokers Quit 
  May 13, 2015
   
• Microbiome Raises Privacy Concerns 
  May 11, 2015
   
• If You Want Change, Tell a Culturally Relevant Story - Not Just Facts
  May 7, 2015
   
• Baylor Faculty Honored with 2015 DeBakey Research Awards
  May 7, 2015
   
• Transforming Training to Reflect the Workforce 
  April 29, 2015
   
• Opening a Window on Alzheimer's Before It Strikes
  April 23, 2015
   
• Karl Deisseroth Wins Prestigious Albany Prize
  April 23, 2015
   
• Albany Med Prize Awarded to Scientists from Harvard, Stanford
  April 20, 2015
   
• The 100 Most Influential People: Martin Blaser
  April 16, 2015
   
• The 100 Most Influential People: Pardis Sabeti
  April 16, 2015
   
• New Penn Program Studies the Body’s Cells, One By One
  March 24, 2015
   
• Andrea Armani Named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum
  March 17, 2015
   
• Stanford Professor Wins Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences
  February 11, 2015
   
• Foundation for the NIH to Award Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences to Karl Deisseroth for Innovative Advances in Brain Research and Technology 
  February 6, 2015
   
• Device reaches where cancer drugs cannot 
  February 4, 2015
   
• Potential pancreatic cancer treatment could increase life expectancy
  February 4, 2015
   
• MIT team enlarges brain samples, making them easier to image
  January 15, 2015
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