Month: December 2016

(University of Manchester) Manchester is set to receive a major cash injection from Cancer Research UK.The charity plans to invest ...

Specific ways in the body: New host for steroids

Credit: (Photo: Jacobs University/Khaleel Assaf) Synthetic hosts are to transport medical substances and hormones into the body and to release ...

Taking stock of the world’s lakes

Credit: HydroLAB, McGill University The total shoreline of the world's lakes is more than four times longer than the global ...

The Angelina Jolie effect on breast cancer genetic testing

Pop culture icons can influence our fashion choices, dietary habits and brand preferences, but can celebrities also influence our medical ...

Scientists studying dolphins find Bay of Bengal a realm of evolutionary change

Credit: Courtesy of WCS. New York (Dec.14, 2016) - Marine scientists have discovered that two species of dolphin in the ...

Researcher studies increased predation of sagebrush songbirds in natural gas fields

Credit: Anna Chalfoun Arid land bird populations are in decline around the vicinity of oil and gas wells in Wyoming ...

American Association of Anatomists announces winners of $75,000 for Scientific Gap Funding

Bethesda, MD-The American Association of Anatomists is proud to announce the winners of our inaugural Fellows Grant Award Program (FGAP). ...

Barrow identifies new genes responsible for ALS using IMB Watson Health

Credit: Barrow Neurological Institute Barrow Neurological Institute and IBM Watson Health today announced results of a revolutionary study that has ...

Tectonic shift?

Credit: UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE Plate tectonics, the idea that the surface of the Earth is made up of plates that ...

Study models Tsunami Risk for Florida and Cuba

Credit: Eberli & Schnyder - UM Rosensitel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science MIAMI -- While the Caribbean is not ...

Insectivorous long-fingered bats may also be capable of catching fish

Credit: Antton Alberdi and Ostaizka Aizpurua While most long-fingered bats eat only insects, they may all be instinctively able to ...

Colorado State University, Future Earth team land sustainability science grant

Credit: Photo courtesy of W. Chris Funk A team led by Josh Tewksbury, director of the Colorado Global Hub of ...

Vaccination increases family wealth, girls’ education

Credit: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash. - A Washington State University-led research team found households in rural Africa that vaccinate ...

NYU Dentistry awarded 5-year $1.9m NIH grant — calcium control in dental enamel

Dr. Rodrigo S. Lacruz, assistant professor of basic science and craniofacial biology at NYU College of Dentistry, has been awarded ...

Exactis brings together Quebec cancer centres to increase access to personalized therapy

Five major Quebec cancer treatment centres are partnering with Montreal-based Exactis Innovation to build a coordinated network to match cancer ...

Advance in understanding the disparity in prognosis between men and women in melanoma

Though it has been shown that men who get melanoma are twice as likely to die from the disease as ...

Computers can take social media data and make marketing personas

Computers may be able to group consumers into marketing segments in real time just by observing how they respond to ...

Autonomous Swarmboats: New missions, safe harbors

Credit: U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams ARLINGTON, Va. -- Autonomous unmanned swarming boats were put through their paces ...

Nanocubes simplify printing and imaging in color and infrared

Credit: Maiken Mikkelsen, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. - Duke University researchers believe they have overcome a longstanding hurdle to producing ...

Common breast cancer mutation could be vulnerable to drug combination