Diagnosing cancer
Credit: RUB, Marquard Scientists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have established a process for identifying biomarkers for the diagnosis of different types ...
Advanced FDG-PET image analysis identifies cell mutations in cancer patients
Credit: Stephen S.F. Yip, PhD, and Hugo Aerts, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, ...
Negative regulator stops extreme immune response to parasite, averting multi-organ damage
Credit: Osaka University Osaka - Cytokines are proteins secreted by several types of immune cells in response to infection, inflammation, ...
Solitary perturbations in the steep boundary of magnetized toroidal plasma
Throughout the history of mankind, an anthropomorphic figure transcends time and distance to appear repeatedly and consistently wherever man resides. ...
Robot epigenetics: Adding complexity to embodied robot evolution
Evolutionary robotics is a new exciting area of research which draws on Darwinian evolutionary principles to automatically develop autonomous robots. ...
Researchers document how melanoma tumors form
Loading video... Credit: David Soll laboratory, University of Iowa There's a reason why melanoma, the most serious type of skin ...
MIPT’s researchers come up with clean technology to make low molecular weight chitosan
Credit: MIPT Press Office Researchers at MIPT have developed a new technique for obtaining low molecular weight water-soluble chitin and ...
Computing — quantum deep
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory In a first for deep learning, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory-led team is bringing together ...
Mexico announces up to $3 million in new funding to save the Vaquita porpoise
Credit: Credit: NMMF They are shy and elusive. They are tinier than a dolphin. And they are disappearing fast. Despite ...
Mapping Ecosystem Services: Collection of theories, methods and practical applications
Credit: Costanza et al. 2014 The new book Mapping Ecosystem Services provides a comprehensive collection of theories, methods and practical ...
Conductive graphene ink wins science photography competition’s top prize
Credit: James Macleod, University of Cambridge/EPSRC An image of spectacular swirling graphene ink in alcohol, which can be used to ...
‘Virtual’ interferometers may overcome scale issues for optical quantum computers
Credit: R Alexander et al/APS Melbourne, Australia: It's not the size of the interferometer that matters; it's how you use ...
Monitoring pollen using an aircraft
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Plant pollen and fungal spores can be found at variable ...
Restoration based on chemistry
Considered the pinnacle of mediaeval painting, the Ghent Altarpiece was painted around 1432 by Jan van Eyck and probably his ...
Pathology Atlas to be previewed at AACR17
A demo version of a new Pathology Atlas will be presented on April 2-5 at the annual meeting of American ...
PolyU wins top prizes in Geneva’s Invention Expo
Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has brought glory to Hong Kong by winning ...
Nanoscopic golden springs change color of twisted light
Credit: Ventsislav Valev University of Bath scientists have used gold spring-shaped coils 5,000 times thinner than human hairs with powerful ...
AACR study sheds light on dark side of tumor suppressor gene, p53
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center The gene p53 is the most commonly mutated gene in cancer - it is ...
Mysterious cosmic explosion puzzles astronomers
Credit: Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Pontifical Catholic University/F. Bauer et al. A mysterious flash of X-rays has been discovered by NASA's Chandra ...
AACR: New model paves way for immune therapies against colorectal cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center About 95 percent of colorectal cancers are considered "microsatellite stable" and very few of ...
