NASA finds a lifetime of heavy rainfall from Tropical Cyclone Vardah
Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce NASA gathered rainfall data on Tropical Cyclone Vardah from its birth in the ...
New report calls for forward-looking analysis and a review of restoration goals for the Everglades
WASHINGTON - To ensure the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) is responsive to changing environmental conditions like climate change and ...
New findings about stem cells in the brain of patients with epilepsy
Credit: The University of Gothenburg Neural stem cells have been found in epileptic brain tissue--outside the regions of the brain ...
Dental hygiene, caveman style
Credit: Karen Hardy Bits of wood recovered from a 1.2-million-year-old tooth found at an excavation site in northern Spain indicate ...
Gene editing takes on new roles
What combinations of mutations help cancer cells survive? Which cells in the brain are involved in the onset of Alzheimer's? ...
Ari Waisman receives most prestigious European prize for MS research
The Sobek Foundation honors Professor Ari Waisman for his groundbreaking achievements in research into multiple sclerosis (MS). His research results ...
Lung-in-the-lab reveals no DNA damage on exposure to e-cig vapor
E-cigarette vapour does not damage DNA, even at doses 28 times that of equivalent smoke exposure. Scientists at British American ...
Spanish scientists sequence the genome of the Iberian lynx, the most endangered felid
Credit: EBD-CSIC Spanish scientists have sequenced the genome of the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus), currently one of the world's most ...
New Mekong River initiative will highlight values of biodiversity, ecosystems
Credit: Photo courtesy of Zeb Hogan, University of Nevada, Reno. With 60 million people depending on its aquatic resources for ...
New approach for cancer prevention in BRCA1 mutation-positive women from Josef Penninger
Credit: copyright: IMBA Women with inherited mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes are at substantially higher risk of breast ...
Asian head and neck cancer patients live longer with immunotherapy than mixed race group
LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 16 December, 2016 - Asian head and neck cancer patients live longer with the immunotherapy pembrolizumab than the overall ...
Many early-onset colon cancers are caused by genetic mutations passed through families
Loading video... Credit: The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove ...
Gene mutations among young patients with colorectal cancer
While many patients with colorectal are diagnosed when they are older than 50, about 10 percent of patients are diagnosed ...
Patient prostate tissue used to create unique model of prostate cancer biology
WASHINGTON (Dec. 15, 2016) -- For the first time, researchers have been able to grow, in a lab, both normal ...
Potentially avoidable breast cancer surgeries cost patients and health-care system
Credit: UBC The number of breast cancer patients that have to be reoperated on in Canada is too high and ...
Neural circuits underlying fly larval locomotion
In recent decades, larval fruit flies have generally been considered as a promising model to examine neural locomotor circuits. Drosophila ...
Leibniz Prize for Britta Nestler
(Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) ) Professor Britta Nestler of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is granted the 2017 Gottfried Wilhelm ...
Tumor gene test results can differ in same patients
Credit: Clare McLean A preliminary study comparing two commercially available, next-generation genetic sequencing tests in the same cancer patients shows ...
Mind-controlled toys: The next generation of Christmas presents?
Credit: University of Warwick Toys controlled with the power of thoughts could become must-have gifts Warwick research connects human mind ...
Fast track control accelerates switching of quantum bits
Credit: Image courtesy Peter Allen. From laptops to cellphones, today's technology advances through the ever-increasing speed at which electric charges ...
