Month: August 2017

Should people who profit from the cultural representation of wildlife pay towards conservation? That is the question asked in new ...

Through a process called cell signaling, cells collaborate on necessary functions such as responding to changes in the environment, fighting ...

A chance discovery has opened up a new method of finding unknown viruses. In research published in the journal Virus ...

An often cited claim that humans, who are smarter and more technologically advanced than their ancestors, originated in response to ...

Credit: SFU Simon Fraser University graduate student Oldooz Pooyanfar is monitoring what more than 20,000 honeybees housed in hives in ...

A new Tel Aviv University study suggests that cultural activities, such as the use of language, influence our learning processes, ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- A higher proportion of aggressive breast cancer subtypes are seen in black women, University of North ...

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. - Aug. 3, 2017 - The August issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal ...

BALTIMORE, Md. (Aug. 3, 2017) -Recognizing that administrative health care databases can be a valuable, yet challenging, tool in the ...

TAMPA, Fla. (Aug. 3, 2017) - Precision medicine has become the leading innovation of cancer treatment. Patients are routinely treated ...

In a new study from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, researchers found a ...

JAMA Oncology published a collection of articles on hereditary cancer syndromes, including Li-Fraumeni and Lynch syndromes. The online publication includes ...

Credit: J. Diedrich, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - When a woman has an abnormal pap smear she usually undergoes colposcopy, ...

Credit: University of Sheffield University of Sheffield scientists discover drug used for arthritis could be used to treat blood cancer ...

Targeting healthy cells that have been hijacked by cancer cells could help treat many different types of the disease, according ...

Breast cancer patients who have radiotherapy targeted at the original tumour site experience fewer side effects five years after treatment ...

Credit: European Society for Medical Oncology Lugano/Brussels, Aug. 3, 2017. Three leading European organisations in the fight against cancer have ...

Credit: Image by Paluh et al. in the African Journal of Herpetology GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- When trouble looms, the fish-scale ...

David Geiser and Seogchan Kang, professors of plant pathology and environmental biology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, received ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 3, 2017 -- Artificially constructed human tissues and organs have been developed with a number of different ...