NIFA announces nearly $770,000 for canola research
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced the availability ...
Restoring predators and prey together speeds recovery
Credit: Candice Emmons, NOAA Fisheries/NWFSC Restoring predator and prey species together helps accelerate ecosystem recovery efforts compared to pursuing restoration ...
BOLD prediction: Brain circuit that supports smoking cessation identified
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina Quitting smoking is hard. Yet success is more likely with strong communication between parts ...
Queen’s-led experiment makes substantial leap forward in quest for dark matter
KINGSTON/SUDBURY - New research, submitted for publication by the PICO Collaboration, has produced new direct-detection constraints on the existence of ...
Artificial intelligence enters the nutraceutical industry
Credit: Ageless Cell Wednesday, March 1st Baltimore, MD - In March 2016 Insilico Medicine initiated a research collaboration with Life ...
Study defines global burden of skin disease
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center A study published today in JAMA Dermatology combines the prevalence of skin diseases around ...
Media can register now for ESTRO 36 – Europe’s largest congress on radiation oncology
Registration has now opened for journalists for ESTRO 36 - Europe's largest congress on radiation oncology, organised by the European ...
A new role for an old immune cell may lead to novel therapies for infection and cancer
A new study has identified a previously undescribed role for a type of unconventional T cell with the potential to ...
FDG PET/CT found useful in certain lung cancer patients
Leesburg, VA, March 1, 2017-- FDG PET/CT is a valuable imaging tool for treatment assessment of patients with lung cancer, ...
China physicist Wang Yifang awarded 2016 Pontecorvo Prize
Credit: Image by CAS The jury of the International Bruno Pontecorvo prize announced on February 27 that the Bruno Pontecorvo ...
A new cosmic survey offers unprecedented view of galaxies
Credit: Princeton University/HSC Project The universe has come into sharper focus with the release this week of new images from ...
Yale-led team puts dark matter on the map
Credit: Yale University New Haven, Conn. - A Yale-led team has produced one of the highest-resolution maps of dark matter ...
Philadelphia research consortium launched to access research capabilities across region
PHILADELPHIA -- (March 1, 2017) -- The Wistar Institute, together with many regional academic institutions driving life sciences discoveries, has ...
Even after treatment, brains of anorexia nervosa patients not fully recovered
AURORA, Colo. (March 1, 2017) - Even after weeks of treatment and considerable weight gain, the brains of adolescent patients ...
Hunting for giant planet analogs in our own backyard
Credit: NASA/JPL Washington, DC -- There may be a large number of undetected bright, substellar objects similar to giant exoplanets ...
Automated measurement system enhances quality, reduces handling in Pu-238 production
Under a collaborative partnership between the NASA and DOE, a new automated measurement system developed ORNL will ensure quality production ...
New PET radiotracer identifies inflammation in life-threatening atherosclerosis
Credit: Fabien Hyafil,MD, PhD, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany Reston, Va. - ...
Colorectal cancer statistics, 2017
ATLANTA -March 1, 2017 -Despite dramatic reductions in overall colorectal cancer incidence and mortality, striking disparities by age, race, and ...
Single dose of brachytherapy may be an effective treatment for localized prostate cancer
Credit: Daniel Krauss/American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) ARLINGTON, Va., March 1, 2017 - Results from a new prospective clinical ...
A fine-tuned microscopy technique offers breakthrough imaging of melanoma
SAN DIEGO -- Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer, with over 232,000 new cases and 55,000 deaths per ...
