Month: December 2016

SALT LAKE CITY - Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah will head an international study to find ...

Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON - Developing brains in newborns have a sizable pool of a certain type of ...

PHILADELPHIA --(Dec. 19, 2016)-- Scientists at The Wistar Institute have identified a novel protein pathway across several types of cancer ...

Credit: Nature Communications In the Nankai subduction zone, Japan, non-volcanic deep tremors occur down-dip of the megathrust seismogenic zone, and ...

Bottom Line: Among women with breast cancer who received a type of chemotherapy called an anthracycline, those who had a ...

Bottom Line: The presence of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) isolated from blood samples of patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma was associated ...

LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 17 December, 2016 - A routine blood test can predict how long cancer patients in palliative care will survive, ...

LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 17 December, 2016 - Immunotherapy with pembrolizumab has been deemed a cost-effective first line treatment for advanced melanoma patients ...

LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 17 December, 2016 - Ribociclib significantly improves progression-free survival in Asian women with advanced breast cancer, according to a ...

LUGANO-SINGAPORE, Dec. 18, 2016 - Cancer has a major impact on mental and physical wellbeing, researchers report at the ESMO ...

LUGANO-SINGAPORE, Dec. 17, 2016 - A brain-boosting protein plays an important role in how well people respond to chemotherapy, researchers ...

Credit: Photo: Sara Bombaci/Colorado State University It's a good thing to explore the great outdoors. But a new study led ...

PHILADELPHIA - Delaying surgery after a diagnosis of uterine cancer can increase a women's risk of death, but operating too ...

Credit: Kyle Elliott, McGill University Researchers have discovered that levels of mercury in seabirds off the coast of British Columbia ...

Credit: UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. - Mother-of-pearl or nacre (pronounced nay-ker), the lustrous, tough-as-nails biomineral that lines some seashells, has been ...

Emphasis should be on the energy needs of companies and communities rather than locally available resources. Furthermore, social acceptability and ...

Credit: Ajayan Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 16, 2016) - Graphene quantum dots may offer a simple way to recycle ...

Credit: Medical University of South Carolina N-acetylcysteine, when combined with group cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), reduced symptoms of posttraumatic stress ...

Washington, DC - Dec. 16, 2016 - A team of researchers has developed a portable detection system that can rapidly ...

Credit: Dr. Elliott Jacobson, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida Inclusion body disease is a serious, chronic viral infection ...