Month: December 2016

A University of Rochester Medical Center study shows that when tumors are treated with radiotherapy, the benefits can be hijacked ...

Credit: Florida Atlantic University Whether it's planes, trains or automobiles, the nation's transportation systems are growing rapidly and present a ...

Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Dec. 14, 2016--The rate of opioid use in Canada has fallen 13.7 per ...

Credit: Christophe Guinet When southern elephant seals find dense patches of prey, they dive and return to the surface at ...

American Geophysical Union Dec. 14, 2016 This Week from AGU: Finger-like structures on Mars could harbor potential evidence of past ...

Credit: Ralf Schneider Without a doubt, the seahorse belongs to Darwin's "endless forms most beautiful". Its body form is one ...

Credit: The illustration is provided courtesy of Eunkyoo Oh. Stanford, CA--Climate change and recent heat waves have put agricultural crops ...

Credit: Photo credit Surya Kant In many parts of the world, lack of sufficient water makes it difficult - or ...

(New York, NY - December 12, 2016) -- Even before tumors develop, breast cancer cells with a few defined molecular ...

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Dec. 14, 2016 -- Banner Health and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) today announced a partnership ...

Bring your own device (BYOD) to work is common practice these days. Almost everyone has a smart or a tablet ...

Credit: (Image: Per Bjerkeli/David Lamm/BOID) Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have used the ALMA telescopes to observe the early ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - A sound in the Mariana Trench notable for its complexity and wide frequency range likely represents the ...

When most living creatures get hurt, they can self-heal and recover from the injury. But, when damage occurs to inanimate ...

Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute La Jolla, Calif., Dec. 13, 2016 - Garth Powis, professor and director of ...

Credit: Elias Zambidis and Yulian Zhao Johns Hopkins scientists report success in using a cocktail of cell-signaling chemicals to further ...

(TORONTO, Canada - Dec. 14, 2016) - Scientists from the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University Health Network, have developed ...

Credit: Mariolys Rivas Montreal, December 14, 2016 -- At this time of year, the words "Yule tree" may conjure images ...

Credit: College of Science and Engineering Researchers at the University of Minnesota have made a major breakthrough that allows people ...

Credit: NASA A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has found the mechanism behind the sudden onset of ...