How has society adapted to hurricanes? A look at New Orleans over 300 years
Credit: WIREs Climate Change In the midst of an intense hurricane season, a historical perspective published in WIREs Climate Change ...
The connection between nitrogen utilization and groundwater quality is clear
Nitrogen surplus from agriculture has a clear effect on the nitrogen status of the groundwater, according to 70 years of ...
Agent Orange still linked to hormone imbalances in babies in Vietnam, study suggests
Oxford, September 26, 2017 - Exposure to Agent Orange sprayed during the Vietnam War has been linked to increased levels ...
Novel route to polyamide 6: Catalytic oxidation of cyclohexane with ferrocene in ionic liquid medium
Credit: Luísa M.D.R.S. Martins et al, Bentham Science Publishers Polyamide (PA) 6 is widely used in several industries and therefore ...
Bacterial outer membrane vesicles: An emerging tool in vaccine development
Credit: Kendrick B. Turner and Scott A. Walper, Bentham Science Publishers Outer membrane vesicles, biological nanoparticles shed during normal growth ...
Russian scientist finds a new way to predict cancer development
Credit: MIPT Press Office A scientist from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) has proposed a model that ...
Nerves control the body’s bacterial community
Credit: Image: Christoph Giez, Dr. Alexander Klimovich A central aspect of life sciences is to explore the symbiotic cohabitation of ...
Influence of C-section, formula feeding and antibiotics on infant gut microbiome
A new analytical approach, described in open-access journal Frontiers in Pediatrics, shows how different interventions - cesarean section, formula feeding, ...
How forest fires spoil wine
If wine is cultivated in an area where forest fires occur more often, such as in Australia or Southern Italy, ...
Ethnic minorities and the elderly are underrepresented in cancer clinical trials
ATLANTA -- Many ethnic minority groups and elderly Americans are underrepresented in cancer clinical trials, according to results of a ...
People of Mexican decent in US have more liver cancer risk factors than those living in Mexico
ATLANTA -- Mexican-Americans living in the United States demonstrated more risk factors for liver cancer than their counterparts in Mexico, ...
Religiously tailored educational intervention lead more Muslim women to get mammograms
ATLANTA -- A religiously sensitive educational effort designed to address barriers to mammography for Muslim women increased the women's perceived ...
Tumor microenvironment of TNBC varies between African-American and European-American women
ATLANTA -- The presence of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) varied significantly in the tumors of African-American and European-American women with triple ...
Halving radiation therapy for HPV-related throat cancer offers fewer side effects, similar outcomes
SAN DIEGO - Mayo Clinic researchers have found that a 50 percent reduction in the intensity and dose of radiation ...
Trial confirms pelvic radiation as standard of care for high-risk endometrial cancer
Credit: Marcus Randall, M.D., FASTRO SAN DIEGO, September 25, 2017 - In a new phase III trial report from the ...
Prostaglandin EI inhibits leukemia stem cells
Two drugs, already approved for safe use in people, may be able to improve therapy for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), ...
Radiation+immunotherapy can slow tumor growth for some patients with metastatic NSCLC
Credit: James Welsh, MD SAN DIEGO, September 24, 2017 - A new study involving patients with stage IV cancer finds ...
Streamlined process opens drug development to a new class of steroids
Researchers at Dartmouth College have developed a technique to produce synthetic steroids that could pave the way for a cascade ...
Study finds 75 percent of depressed cancer center patients were previously undiagnosed
Credit: Jason Domogauer, PhD SAN DIEGO, September 24, 2017 -- A new study of patients at an urban cancer center ...
Adding radiation to chemotherapy may dramatically improve survival for advanced NSCLC
Credit: Puneeth Iyengar, MD, PhD SAN DIEGO, September 24, 2017 - Combining radiation therapy with chemotherapy for patients with limited ...
