LONDON, England, March 9 [Category: BizMedia] -- Taylor and Francis Group, a publishing company, posted the following news release: * * * "Peculiar" ancient ancestor of the crocodile started life on four legs in adolescence before it began walking on two Newly discovered Late Triassic reptile was among creatures that had physical features mimicking the late-evolving dinosaurs it lived beside * Artist's reconstruction of Sonselasuchus cedrus in its environment in what is now Petrified Fores  more

WILMINGTON, Delaware, March 10 -- AstraZeneca, a biopharmaceutical company, issued the following news release: * * * ENHERTU(R) (fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki) granted Priority Review in the US as post-neoadjuvant treatment for patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer Based on DESTINY-Breast05 Phase III trial results which showed ENHERTU reduced the risk of invasive disease recurrence or death by 53 compared with T-DM1 If approved, AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo's ENHERTU has the p  more

WURZBURG, Germany, March 9 -- The University of Wurzburg issued the following news release: * * * Hubland Campus: a home for many wild bees * 170 species of wild bees live on the Hubland Campus of Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg (JMU). This is the result of a study carried out by the Chair of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology at the JMU Biocentre from 2012 to 2023. The results have now been published in the scientific journal Ampulex. Of the 531 wild bee species recorded in Bavar  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 10 (TNSjou) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: * * * Researchers Make Probiotic Safer for Immunocompromised Patients An international team of researchers has modified a probiotic yeast to make it safer for use by immunocompromised people, older adults and infants. Testing in an animal model found the modified yeast is less likely to cause infection than unmodified strains of the same organism. "The yeast we're working with is   more

LEXINGTON, Kentucky, March 9 -- The University of Kentucky issued the following news: * * * UK study finds blood clues to serious side effects of new Alzheimer's drug * A team of University of Kentucky researchers has uncovered a surprising clue in the battle against Alzheimer's disease that could help doctors predict, and ultimately prevent, a common side effect of the newest generation of Alzheimer's therapies. Their findings, recently published in Nature Communications, reveal a distinct   more

CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, March 9 -- The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus issued the following news: * * * Team simulates a living cell that grows and divides * CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell -from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division -scientists have opened a new frontier of computer vision into the essential processes of life. The researchers, led by chemistry professor Zan Luthey-Schulten at the Univer  more

TOLEDO, Ohio, March 10 (TNSjou) -- The University of Toledo issued the following news: * * * UToledo Herpetologists Analyze Population Decline in Regional Turtle Populations By Nicki Gorny Are box turtles in worse shape than herpetologists thought? University of Toledo researchers raise the question in new research published in the peer-reviewed journal Ecology and Evolution. Analyzing years of field data collected on populations of two turtle species in northwest Ohio and southeast Michiga  more