Month: May 2018

PHILADELPHIA - A new approach pioneered at the University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center may provide a new path towards ...

ORNL ramps up production of key radioisotope for cancer-fighting drug

Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Department of Energy The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now producing ...

OSU, NOAA researchers document widespread methane seeps off Oregon coast

Credit: Oregon State University NEWPORT, Ore. - For the past two years, scientists from Oregon State University and the National ...

Study suggests scientists can use microbial measurements to gauge river flow

Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University scientists have created a tool that can predict the flow ...

Why do older male birds father more illegitimate children?

Credit: Terry Burke When female birds have chicks as the result of an extra-marital fling, the fathers are almost always ...

Nanoplastics accumulate in marine organisms and may pose harm to aquatic food chains

Credit: National University of Singapore Plastic nanoparticles - these are tiny pieces of plastic less than 1 micrometre in size ...

Ancient tooth shows Mesolithic ancestors were fish and plant eaters

Credit: Sapienza University of Rome Previous analysis of Mesolithic skeletal remains in this region has suggested a more varied Medittaranrrean ...

Dolphin algorithm could lead to better medical ultrasounds

Millions of years of evolutionary fine-tuning have made dolphins phenomenally good at using echolocation to orient themselves, find food and ...

Prototype nuclear battery packs 10 times more power

Credit: Elena Khavina/MIPT Press Office Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Technological Institute for ...

Understanding immune system interplay to improve organ transplant success

A rare opportunity to analyse both blood and tissue samples from human transplant recipients has allowed immunology researchers at the ...

Number of wild mountain gorillas exceeds 1,000

Credit: Martha Robbins, MPI-EVA "This represents one of the rare success stories in conservation. The population of mountain gorillas in ...

Scientists boost crop production by 47 percent by speeding up photorespiration

Credit: Video produced by Claire Benjamin/RIPE project Plants such as soybeans and wheat waste between 20 and 50 percent of ...

Study estimates increased death rate in Puerto Rico in months after Hurricane Maria

Boston, MA - The mortality rate in Puerto Rico rose by 62% after Hurricane Maria, according to a new study ...

Goodbye ‘stress granules’: Study expands possibilities for treating neurological diseases

Credit: Journal of Cell Science Cell biologists have deepened understanding of proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases. The findings could open ...

A novel data-driven method to personalize cancer treatment

Credit: Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) Identify and prioritize treatment options based on a patient's profile of genetic alterations ...

University of Chicago’s Ralph Weichselbaum, M.D., to receive ASCO’s Karnofsky Memorial Award

Credit: The University of Chicago Medicine The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has named Ralph R. Weichselbaum, MD, Professor ...

Researchers uncover cell types of the human breast epithelium

Credit: Kai Kessenbrock, PhD Researchers from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, in collaboration with scientists at UCSF ...

Gun violence research gets $50 million support fund

The RAND Corporation has been selected to help oversee a philanthropic fund that will support high-quality research on issues related ...

Researchers create new programmed shape-morphing scaffolds enabling facile 3-D endothelialization

Credit: DU Xuemin Recently, a research team led by Dr. DU Xuemin at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) ...

Federal home visiting program can be improved to better meet needs of families