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...
Sight unseen
A study led by scientists from Harvard Medical School reveals "hidden" variability in how tumor cells are affected by anticancer...
Good vibrations: Smart access to homes and cars using fingers
Credit: The DAISY Lab "Good, good, good, good vibrations" goes the catchy Beach Boys song, a big hit in 1966...
UTSA researcher receives $1 million award to aid food security
Garry Sunter, chair of the UTSA Department of Biology, has received an award worth up to $1 million over four...
Moving neuroscience into the fast lane
At the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan, a two-year project from Andrea Benucci's research group has culminated in the...
Research shows how environment plays key role in changing movement behavior of animals
Theory explains how animals such as bats, insects and birds adjust movement behaviour based on environment Environmental cues which could...
Driving drug resistance out of fungi
Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University (BOSTON) -- Candida albicans is a notorious human fungal pathogen that causes thrush and...
Bears not bothered by diet high in saturated fats
Campgrounds and cottages are getaways for humans. They are also locations where grizzly bears are acquiring appetites for human foods...
New tool predicts risk of plant disease and infestation worldwide
A newly developed technique can predict the risk of plant disease or infestation across the globe. Described in open-access journal...
Jens Nielsen receive gold medal for innovative research in the field of systems biology
Credit: The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark Chief Scientific Officer at the Novo...
Food should be marketed as a ‘meal’ rather than a ‘snack’ to avoid overeating
Marketing food as a 'snack' leads to increased consumption and continued overeating, a new study in the journal Appetite reports....
