The brain at work: Spotting half-hidden objects
Credit: Randy Carnell and Megan Clark/UW Medicine How does a driver's brain realize that a stop sign is behind a ...
Researchers compose guidelines for handling CAR T cell side effects
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON -- Immune-cell based therapies opening a new frontier for cancer treatment carry unique, potentially ...
New model may help science overcome the brain’s fortress-like barrier
Credit: Samah Jassam New model may help science overcome the brain's fortress-like barrier Scientists have helped provide a way to ...
Why aren’t house sparrows as big as geese?
Credit: Photo: Thomas Kvalnes, NTNU Why are house sparrows the exact size they are? Why aren't they hummingbird size or ...
New lung cell type discovered
(Boston)-- A recent study has identified a new lung cell type that is implicated in the body's innate immune defense ...
UMass Amherst epidemiologist will seek hormone biomarkers of breast cancer risk
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Epidemiologist Susan Hankinson at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a five-year, $4.2 ...
MicroRNA helps cancer evade immune system
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(September 18, 2017) The immune system automatically destroys dysfunctional cells such as cancer cells, but cancerous ...
NCI awards $12.4 million lymphoma research grant to University of Iowa and Mayo Clinic
University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center and Mayo Clinic have received a five-year, $12.4 million grant renewal from the ...
People with HIV who smoke are more likely to die from lung cancer than from HIV itself
People living with HIV who adhere to antiretroviral therapy but smoke cigarettes are around 10 times more likely to die ...
Cholesterol-like molecules switch off the engine in cancer-targeting Natural Killer cells
Credit: Dr. David Finlay, Trinity College Dublin. Scientists have just discovered how the engine that powers cancer-killing cells functions. Crucially, ...
ASTRO awards early-career research grants to physician-scientists
Credit: American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 18, 2017 -- The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) ...
Springer Healthcare’s Medicine Matters expands to include oncology and rheumatology resources
Springer Healthcare has launched two new websites specializing in oncology and rheumatology to complement their flagship medical education platform, Medicine ...
NUS scientists combine antimalarial drug with light sensitive molecules for promising treatment of cancer
Credit: National University of Singapore Artemisinin, a potent anti-malarial drug, has been widely hailed as a promising alternative cancer treatment. ...
Metabolism can be used to subtype hepatoblastoma
Credit: Etienne Meylan/EPFL Hepatoblastoma is a rare pediatric liver cancer, usually diagnosed in the first three years of life. Histological ...
American oaks share a common northern ancestor
Credit: The Morton Arboretum If you had been in northern Canada 45 million years ago, you might have encountered the ...
When caring for a sick pet becomes too much
Credit: Kent State University The mental and physical stress on individuals caring for elderly loved ones with chronic and terminal ...
Scientists identify new hosts for Chagas Disease vectors
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Solitary weasel-like animals called tayra might look pretty harmless, but some may actually be ...
DNA triggers shape-shifting in hydrogels, opening a new way to make ‘soft robots’
Credit: Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University Biochemical engineers at the Johns Hopkins University have used sequences of DNA molecules to induce ...
Ironing out a puzzle
Alison Butler has never met Canadian chemist and philanthropist Alfred Bader, but they have something important in common. Harvard-educated Bader ...
Study uncovers markers for severe form of multiple sclerosis
New Haven, Conn. -- Scientists have uncovered two closely related cytokines -- molecules involved in cell communication and movement -- ...
