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Credit: Z Cai and S Li et al., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. PHILADELPHIA - New nuclear medicine tracers could...

Combining targeted radionuclide therapy and immunotherapy could improve melanoma survival

Credit: R Hernandez, R Patel, et al., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisc. PHILADELPHIA - Research presented at the 2018 Annual...

Risk of autism increased in children of mothers with diabetes

June 23, 2018

Bottom Line: The risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was increased in children of mothers with the three main types...

Improved PSMA-targeting agent more effective for prostate cancer diagnosis/therapy in mice

Credit: Z Wang et al., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD PHILADELPHIA - Research presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting...

Novel PET tracer successfully images cardiovascular infections

Credit: Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA. PHILADELPHIA - A novel positron emission tomography...

New research on avian response to wildfires

As we enter another wildfire season in California, attention will turn to the inevitable fires and efforts to extinguish them....

Coral reef scientist receives royal honor

Credit: Credit: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies/ James Kerry The exemplary research of Distinguished Professor Terry Hughes,...

UT Institute of Agriculture announces new Herbert College of Agriculture

Credit: UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees formally announced today the new Herbert College of...

Miniature testing of drug pairs on tumor biopsies

Credit: IMAGE - Ramesh Utharala, EMBL Combinations of cancer drugs can be quickly and cheaply tested on tumour cells using...

Low-cost plastic sensors could monitor a range of health conditions

Credit: KAUST An international team of researchers have developed a low-cost sensor made from semiconducting plastic that can be used...

When low batteries are a good thing

Credit: Špela Konjar, iMM. Every day the human gut works on a fine-tuned balance that ensures the retention of essential...

First step to lasting wheat health

Substantial reductions in a deadly root disease of wheat crops and corresponding increases in yields of grain and straw mark...

About face: Special collection of papers celebrates research on how the human face forms

Credit: Peter Claes and Mark D. Shriver Our faces can reveal a lot about us, and now scientists are revealing...

GA4GH streaming API htsget a bridge to the future for modern genomic data processing

HINXTON, United Kingdom (June 22, 2018) -- The Large Scale Genomics Work Stream of the Global Alliance for Genomics and...

Nuclear Engineering expert honored by Health Physics Society

Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Nuclear engineering expert George Xu, the Edward E. Hood Jr. Endowed Chair of Engineering at Rensselaer...

Hydrangeas, the strange color-changing flowers (video)

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 22, 2018 -- Savvy gardeners know that they can adjust the color of...

Decellularized cartilage-based scaffold promotes bone regeneration at fracture site

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 22, 2018--To help prevent possible complications such as nonunion at...

Office of Naval Research invests in Purdue battery safety technology

Credit: Purdue University image/Vincent Walter WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Fundamental Purdue University research on making batteries safer has been targeted...

The advances of Blockchain for Healthcare to be presented at the Basel Life Conference

Friday, June 22, 2018, Rockville, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company specializing in the application of artificial intelligence for...

An emerging drug discovery approach to combat cancer