International conference on molecular targets & cancer therapeutics to be Held Oct. 26-30
PHILADELPHIA -- The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the National Cancer Institute, and the European Organisation for Research and ...
Study shows diet and exercise improve treatment outcomes for obese pediatric cancer patients
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Diet and exercise may improve treatment outcomes in pediatric cancer patients, according to a study ...
‘Capicua’ gene plays a key role in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have discovered a genetic alteration that is directly involved in at ...
Mitochondria drive cell survival in times of need
Credit: Facility for Electron Microscopy Research/McGill University Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology McGill University researchers have discovered a mechanism ...
Penn First in world to treat patient with new radiation technology
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Doctors at Penn Medicine have become the first in the world to treat a patient ...
Whole food diet may help prevent colon cancer, other chronic conditions
Credit: Patrick Mansell A diet that includes plenty of colorful vegetables and fruits may contain compounds that can stop colon ...
UM Rosenstiel school scientists awarded over $14 million to advance oil spill science
Credit: UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science MIAMI - Researchers at the UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and ...
Development of an artificial orchid cultivation kit
Credit: Professor Shinichiro Sawa Orchids are loved by gardeners around the world but are notoriously difficult to cultivate. Japanese researchers ...
Politically driven: How today’s advances in science & technology come about
Credit: World Scientific The 1980s witnessed technologies focus on reducing costs and improving performance. However, at the turn of 21st ...
In US, spread of Zika linked to time outdoors
When Zika first buzzed into the continental United States during the 2016 outbreak, Florida was hit first--and hardest--with 1,174 documented ...
Understanding the dance to save the dance
Think of the relationship between plants and pollinators as a dance -- one that has been taking place, and evolving, ...
NSF awards Indiana University $4 million to advance medical nanotechnology
Credit: Image courtesy of the Vikram Jadhao Lab Only a year after establishing the intelligent systems engineering program in the ...
Unique gene therapy prevents, reverses multiple sclerosis in animal model
Multiple sclerosis can be inhibited or reversed using a novel gene therapy technique that stops the disease's immune response in ...
Into more thin air
Many research groups have recently explored human adaptation and successfully identified candidate genes to high altitude living among three major ...
CSIC reconstructs how Neanderthals grew, based on an El Sidrón child
(Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) How did Neanderthals grow? Does modern man develop in the same way as Homo neanderthalensis ...
Early trilobites had stomachs, new fossil study finds
Credit: © F. Chen Exceptionally preserved trilobite fossils from China, dating back to more than 500 million years ago, have ...
Baltimore Ecosystem Study partners with Baltimore City Public Schools
Credit: BES Photo Archive (Millbrook, NY) Through a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the Baltimore Ecosystem Study ...
Exosomes are the missing link to insulin resistance in diabetes
Credit: UC San Diego Health Chronic tissue inflammation resulting from obesity is an underlying cause of insulin resistance and type ...
Goal of new tissue-chip research is to assess efficacy of novel epilepsy drugs
Credit: VIIBRE, Vanderbilt University An interdisciplinary team of Vanderbilt University researchers has received a two-year, $2-million federal grant to develop ...
Ozark grasslands experience major increase in trees and shrubs
Credit: Jesse Miller/UC Davis Woody vegetation, such as trees and shrubs, has increased dramatically in Ozark grasslands over the past ...
