Month: October 2017

The damage caused to beaches by extreme storms on exposed energetic coastlines and the rate at which they recover can ...

Danforth Center receives $3.4 million to improve maize architecture

Credit: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center ST. LOUIS, MO, October 11, 2017 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, one ...

Study shows removing invasive plants can increase biodiversity in stream waters

Credit: Rachel E. McNeish Restoration projects to remove invasive plants can make a positive impact on native plant species. But ...

Cities taking narrow approach to start adapting to climate change see benefits

Credit: Donna Burton, U.S. Government Work LAWRENCE -- As U.S. cities begin to plan to adapt to impacts from climate ...

Aging slows perception of falls

Seniors need twice as long as young adults to realize they are falling, a delay that puts them at increased ...

UTSA researcher to study waterways contaminated by Hurricane Harvey damage

Credit: Deborah Silliman, UTSA College of Engineering Vikram Kapoor, an assistant professor in The University of Texas at San Antonio ...

WSU researchers document one of planet’s largest volcanic eruptions

Credit: WSU PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University researchers have determined that the Pacific Northwest was home to one of ...

New breast cancer drug defeats the Ras genes notorious for causing many types of cancer

Credit: Paul Dent, Ph.D. Blocking the function of the Ras oncogenes is considered by many scientists to be the "holy ...

How the cone snail’s deadly venom can help us build better medicines

Credit: Alex Holt/NIST Cone snails have inspired humans for centuries. Coastal communities have often traded their beautiful shells like money ...

Unexpected regulation of transcription factors critical to development

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) A team of developmental biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by Dominique Alfandari, ...

Lung cancer research gets a breath of fresh air

Credit: Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University (Boston) -- Cancer researchers have come to understand that generating human tumors in ...

A self-propelled catheter with earthworm-like peristaltic motion

Credit: Hideyuki Tsukagoshi Biopsies of pulmonary lesions are essential for increasing the accuracy of diagnosis and treatment for respiratory illnesses ...

PharmaMar will present final data on PM1183 during the 18th World Lung Conference in Japan

PharmaMar (MSE:PHM) will present the final efficacy and safety data obtained from the Phase I/II trial combining PM1183 (lurbinectedin) with ...

Exposure to environmental chemicals is an important risk factor for breast cancer

Newton, Mass. (Oct. 10, 2017) - Exposure to environmental chemicals, especially early in life, is an important contributing factor in ...

BU researcher receives grant to better understand lymphoblastic leukemia

(Boston)--Hui Feng, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology and medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), is the recipient ...

Moffitt researchers discover new targets for approved cancer drug

TAMPA, Fla. (Oct. 10, 2017) - Developing new drugs to treat cancer can be a painstaking process taking over a ...

International experts describe a new way of cells behaving when submitted to chemotherapy

(University of Seville) The experts indicate a new way via which cells can respond to chemotherapy. This knowledge has to ...

In global first, Penn using glowing tumor dye to identify cancerous lymph nodes

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Surgeons at Penn Medicine are using a fluorescent dye that makes cancerous cells glow in ...

Areas of glioblastoma tumors correlate with separate subtypes of glioma stem cells

CLEVELAND -- A new study published in the Oct. 9 issue of the journal Nature Medicine demonstrates, for the first ...

P53 ‘master switch’ remains top target in gene signaling network controlling cancer