Wayne State University leads groundbreaking research on preterm birth
DETROIT - Preterm birth -- birth before 37 weeks of pregnancy -- affects up to one in every six births...
NJIT’s Sirkar named a 2016 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
NJIT's Kamalesh Sirkar, a distinguished professor of chemical engineering acclaimed for his innovations in industrial membrane technology used to separate...
Histologic classification impacts SBRT treatment in early-stage lung cancer patients
DENVER - Early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with squamous cell carcinoma (SqCC) have a significantly higher rate of...
Promising discovery for a non-invasive early detection of Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: : Dr. Ricardo B. Maccioni December 22nd, 2016 - A discovery of high relevance in medical research will be...
Do you burn more fat in the cold? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 2016 -- With the holidays in full swing, all of those feasts...
Northeastern and Facebook partner on next generation research projects
Facebook announced on Wednesday that Northeastern is one of 17 research universities selected to partner with the company on next...
Moffitt researchers use mathematics to explain treatment resistance
TAMPA, Fla. (Dec. 22, 2016) - Modern medicine and treatments for bacterial infections and cancer have significantly increased life spans...
Gene test could pinpoint patients sensitive to new type of cancer drug
Testing for a gene commonly mutated in ovarian cancers could pick out patients who will respond well to a promising...
New precision medicine tool helps optimize cancer treatment
NEW YORK NY (December 22, 2016)--Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have created a computational tool that can rapidly predict...
Existence of a short-lived tetraneutron predicted
Credit: Andrey Shirokov A member of the Lomonosov Moscow State University together with his colleagues, using new interaction between neutrons,...
Hubble chases a small stellar galaxy in the Hunting Dog
Credit: Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA On a clear evening in April of 1789, the renowned astronomer William Herschel continued...
Feeding the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
Credit: Image: NASA/UMass/D.Wang et al. Inset: NASA/STScI. Scientists at Princeton University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma...
A smarter, safer way to reduce corrosion
Credit: Swansea University A smarter, safer way to reduce corrosion: Swansea University steel experts win Royal Society award for research...
PharmaMar and Chugai enter into a license and commercialization agreement for PM1183
PharmaMar (MSE:PHM) has announced today the signing of an exclusive license, development and commercialization agreement with Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd....
NASA finds heavy rainfall area increasing in Tropical Cyclone Yvette
Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce NASA found that the area of heavy rainfall had increased in size as Tropical Cyclone...
NASA spots Tropical Storm Nock-ten intensify
Credit: Credits: NASA MODIS Rapid Response/NOAA NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and captured a visible image...
Dual strategy teaches mouse immune cells to overcome cancer’s evasive techniques
Credit: Alyssa Kosmides and Randall Meyer, Johns Hopkins Medicine By combining two treatment strategies, both aimed at boosting the immune...
Scientists discover concussion biomarker
EVANSTON, Ill. --- The secret to reliably diagnosing concussions lies in the brain's ability to process sound, according to a...
Oddly shaped immune cells cause fibrosis
Credit: Osaka University Scientists at the Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC) at Osaka University, Japan, report a new group of...
Evolution of ideas: Scientists to decode genetic story of Newton’s apple
Credit: University of Lincoln Scientists will connect two of the most important scientific theories of all time - the law...
