LANSING — Physicians assistants and other advanced practitioners at University of Michigan Health−Sparrow have voted to form a new bargaining unit, the Michigan Nurses Association said. The new union ...

A study led by Aaron Hobbs, Ph.D., and Rachel Burge, Ph.D., at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, reveals why a specific gene mutation behaves differently from other variants. The study, published in Cancer ...

Many people are familiar with histamine, a biological molecule that serves as a key driver of allergic reactions and other immune responses. However, histamine is also a major neurotransmitter in the ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless "microgravity" conditions aboard the International Space Station, but the ...

Mutations in the tumor suppressor TP53 are a common cause of cancer, making the altered protein an attractive target for therapeutics. Among them, the Y220C mutation is the ninth most frequent and it ...

BUSY BIRD: Sparrow Smith co-leads The Resonant Rogues, Black Sea Beat Society, Las Montanitas and Sparrow and Her Wingmen. Photo by Luxe House Photographic Sparrow Smith says there’s “a very long, ...

Security researchers have uncovered a global business email compromise (BEC) gang that is sending millions of customized messages each month to targets. Fortra said the “Scripted Sparrow” collective ...

The artist first showed her work in Miami 10 years ago. She's since become a staple of Miami Art Week. Lucy Sparrow, "Sugar Rush" at Art Miami. Photo: Sarah Cascone. It features all manner of ...

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Sparrow Bioacoustics Inc. closed a C$10 million (US$7.15 million) financing round to support continued adoption of its U.S. FDA-cleared Stethophone platform, which allows bioacoustics detection of ...

Human semen not only accumulates genetic mutations with age; as the percentage of sperm carrying potentially serious mutations increases, so does the risk of developing diseases in offspring. This is ...

The risk of older fathers passing on disease-causing mutations to their children is higher than we thought. Genome sequencing has revealed that among men in their early thirties, around 1 in 50 sperm ...