Monell Center receives grant to develop technologies to improve taste of lifesaving drugs
Credit: Kevin Monko/Monell Center PHILADELPHIA (December 1, 2016) - The Monell Center announced today that it has received a $345,000...
UChicago startup turns renewable energy into natural gas
Credit: Photo by Ronnie Ranch Hedegaard, courtesy of Electrochaea One of the biggest challenges to wider adoption of wind and...
Plasma-zapping process could yield trans fat-free soybean oil product
Credit: (Purdue University / Ximena Yépez) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University researchers have developed a hydrogenation process that could...
Study reveals new role for Hippo pathway in suppressing cancer immunity
Credit: UC San Diego Health Previous studies identified the Hippo pathway kinases LATS1/2 as a tumor suppressor, but new research...
New chemistry of life
Credit: Cell The attachment of ubiquitin was long considered as giving the „kiss of death", labelling superfluous proteins for disposal...
New form of autism found
Autism spectrum disorders affect around one percent of the world's population and are characterized by a range of difficulties in...
Detailed images of NMDA receptors help explain how zinc and a drug affect their function
Credit: Furukawa Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - The difference between mental health and mental illness can turn on...
The tree of life has its roots in Jena
(Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena) Drawing on Darwin's theory of evolution, Ernst Haeckel created the first Darwinian phylogenetic 'tree of life' of organisms...
‘Bickering’ flies make evolutionary point
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 1, 2016) - When a male fruit fly gets aggressive, he rears up...
Model explains barred owls’ domination over northern spotted owls
Credit: Photo by Ray Davis EAST LANSING, Mich. - Barred owls - unrivaled nocturnal predators and procreators - are moving...
Computer learns to recognize sounds by watching video
In recent years, computers have gotten remarkably good at recognizing speech and images: Think of the dictation software on most...
What do Netflix, Google and planetary systems have in common?
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Machine learning is a powerful tool used for a variety of tasks in modern life, from fraud detection...
Study examines association of asbestos exposure, mesothelioma in Eastern China
A new research letter published online by JAMA Oncology looks at asbestos exposure and malignant mesothelioma in Eastern China. The...
Could ambulatory surgical centers help bend the cost curve in US health care?
ROSEMONT, Ill. (December 1, 2016)--U.S. healthcare costs have more than tripled since the 1960s1. Nearly one of every five dollars...
Disabling critical ‘node’ revs up attack when cancer immunotherapies fall short
PHILADELPHIA--An existing drug known as a JAK inhibitor may help patients who don't respond to the so-called checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy...
Tufts and Johns Hopkins win $25 million NIH award to build new trial innovation center
BOSTON, MA (December 1, 2016) - Investigators at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies (ICRHPS) at Tufts...
First structural map of cystic fibrosis protein sheds light on how mutations cause disease
Credit: Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Biophysics at The Rockefeller University/Cell Rockefeller scientists have created the first three-dimensional map of...
Breaking the backbone
Polymerization by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a simple method for modifying surfaces by which topologically challenging substrates can be...
The latest advances in the study of blood diseases presented at annual meeting of ASH
Tuesday (Dec.6), Charles Mullighan, MD, MBBS, of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, will be awarded the 2016 William Dameshek Prize....
FSU professor designs new material to better store hydrogen fuel
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A Florida State University researcher has designed new materials that could be used to store hydrogen fuel...