Little-known fruits contain powerful anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant agents
According to a study supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation five fruit trees native to the Atlantic Rainforest have...
Tracking mosquitoes with your cellphone
Credit: Kurt Hickman/Stanford News Service It's a sound that can keep even the weariest among us from falling asleep: the...
Humans don’t use as much brainpower as we like to think
Credit: Image by Arianna Harrington, Duke University. DURHAM, N.C. -- For years, scientists assumed that humans devote a larger share...
Why do some head knocks cause more damage than others?
Credit: Pinton Lab, UNC-Chapel Hill CHAPEL HILL, NC - Veteran sailors know that rogue waves can rise suddenly in mid-ocean...
INRS to upgrade its tomography and ultrafast dynamic imaging facilities
Studying geological reservoirs in near "real world" conditions, monitoring the behavior of hydrocarbons around sea ice, better understanding how chemical...
MSU biologists discovered the pathways of groups of the lophophore
Credit: Aleksander Semenov Scientists from Moscow State University have proved that lophophorates - the invertebrates with special tentacular apparatus -...
Aliens may be more like us than we think
Hollywood films and science fiction literature fuel the belief that aliens are other-worldly, monster-like beings, who are very different to...
Despite improvements, death rates from lupus remain disproportionately high
1. Despite improvements over the last decade, death rates from lupus remain disproportionately high Abstract: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M17-0102 URLs go live when...
Potential cancer treatment breakthrough with nanoporous acupuncture needles
Credit: Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology) announced that Professor...
Scientists discover surprising immune cell activity that may be limiting immunotherapy
ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- Researchers have uncovered a surprising process within a key immune cell that may help explain the...
Tourassi named top scientist at ORNL’s annual Awards night
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 28, 2017 -- Georgia Tourassi of Oak...
UA Cancer Center research team explores anti-breast cancer properties of soy
Credit: University of Arizona Cancer Center A University of Arizona Cancer Center research team is engaged in a series of...
Rousing masses to fight cancer with open source machine learning
Credit: Georgia Tech / McDonald lab Here's an open invitation to steal. It goes out to cancer fighters and tempts...
$12.5 million grant allows MUSC and SCSU to team up to tackle health disparities
Credit: Sarah Pack Marvella Ford missed out on a fundamental part of childhood: having grandparents to spoil and take care...
Helping smokers quit: Payments, personalized support can work
BOSTON - Money can be more powerful than nicotine, as a new study found that smokers who received financial incentives,...
3-D ‘scaffold’ map to help the search for new cancer treatments
Credit: Image: Onisha Patel/Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Researchers have produced the first three-dimensional (3D) map of a molecular 'scaffold'...
Minorities less likely to have breast reconstruction, but not for the reason many think
PHILADELPHIA - Minority women are far less likely to undergo breast reconstruction than white women, even if they live in...
Important mechanism of epigenetic gene regulation identified
DNA contains the blueprint of an entire organism. Based on the information in this blueprint, every cell knows what it...
LAunch of new Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC) global charter
LISBON, Portugal, 30 October 2017 - The Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC) Global Alliance has launched the ABC Global Charter, a...
Just-in-time 3-D implants set to transform tumor surgery
Credit: RMIT University/Stryker A major new Australian research project using 3D implants and robotic surgery is set to radically advance...
