Liver tumor growth in mice slowed with new chemo-immunotherapy treatment
Credit: Justin Kelley/MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (Feb. 28, 2017) -- Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common form of liver cancer, ...
Month: February 2017
NMR spectroscopy platform to target the development of new therapeutic agents
Implementation of a new nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy platform will provide professors Nicolas Doucet and Steven LaPlante of Centre ...
Male poison frogs become cannibals after taking over territories
Credit: Andrius Pasukonis In general, male poison frogs of the species Allobates femoralis are observed as very caring and attentive ...
NeuroVision announces participation in landmark Alzheimer’s A4 study
Credit: NeuroVision Imaging LLC SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - NeuroVision Imaging LLC ("NeuroVision") today announced its participation in a new substudy with ...
Open Science Prize goes to software tool for tracking viral outbreaks
After three rounds of competition -- one of which involved a public vote -- a software tool developed by researchers ...
Inhaler users get about half as much medicine as they should from each puff
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Tens of millions of Americans with lung disease use metered-dose inhalers each day, and new studies ...
Study finds colorectal cancer rates have risen dramatically in Gen X and millennials
ATLANTA - February 28, 2017 - A new study finds that compared to people born around 1950, when colorectal cancer ...
Treatment of malignant brain tumor in children gets closer
DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma) is a rare malignant cerebral tumour in children. It has only a 1% 5-year survival ...
Exploring the mysteries of supercooled water
Credit: Margherita De Marzio, Gaia Camisasca, Maria Martin Conde, Mauro Rovere and Paola Gallo WASHINGTON, D.C., February 28, 2017 -- ...
Breakthrough research for testing and arranging vertical axis wind turbines
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 28, 2017 -- The sight of propeller-like rotating blades positioned high up the pole of a tall ...
Optical generation of ultrasound via photoacoustic effect
Credit: Brown et al. WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 28, 2017 -- Limitations of the piezoelectric array technologies conventionally used for ultrasonics ...
More mosquito species than previously thought may transmit Zika
Credit: UGA Athens, Ga. - Zika virus could be transmitted by more mosquito species than those currently known, according to ...
Do cells have exotic vibrational properties?
A little-understood biological property that appears to allow cell components to store energy on their outer edges is the possible ...
Transforming the carbon economy
Credit: Princeton University Most strategies to combat climate change concentrate on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by substituting non-carbon energy sources ...
Recent investigations on human group II pyridoxal 5′-phosphate decarboxylases
The aim of the present article is to compare the structural features of a particular group of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-dependent decarboxylases, ...
Lithium-ion battery inventor introduces new technology for fast-charging, noncombustible batteries
Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering A team of engineers led by 94-year-old John Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School of ...
The farm of the future? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2017 -- There's a new trend in agriculture called vertical farming. As ...
Did seaweed make us who we are today?
Millions of years ago something happened, allowing early Homo sapiens to branch out from the primitive hominoid family tree. Was ...
First public data release by the HSC Subaru strategic program
Credit: Princeton University/HSC Project Figuring out the fate of the Universe is one step closer. The first massive dataset of ...
New cancer drug targets cellular garbage disposal
Credit: Courtesy of the Deshaies laboratory The genomes of cancer cells--cells that do not obey signals to stop reproducing--are riddled ...
