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Credit: Image courtesy: Zheng Sun While the charge and spin properties of electrons are widely utilized in modern day technologies...

Molecular microscopy illuminates molecular motor motion

Credit: Keith Mickolajczyk / Penn State A toddler running sometimes loses footing because both feet come off the ground at...

‘Safe Genes’ award to Mass. General team aims to improve gene-editing technologies

A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-based research team is one of seven nationwide receiving contracts under the DARPA Safe Genes program,...

Coral gardening is benefiting Caribbean reefs, study finds

Credit: Stephanie Schopmeyer, UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science MIAMI--A new study found that Caribbean staghorn corals (Acropora...

New virus discovered in migratory bird in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Credit: Isaac Simão Neto Researchers at the University of São Paulo's Biomedical Science Institute (ICB-USP) in Brazil have discovered a...

Anti-cancer chemotherapeutic agent inhibits glioblastoma growth and radiation resistance

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Glioblastoma is a primary brain tumor with dismal survival rates, even after treatment with surgery,...

Reaching black men in barbershops could lead to early detection of colorectal cancer

Credit: NYU Langone Health Aging black men are at much greater risk of dying prematurely of colorectal cancer than any...

Molecular hitchhiker on human protein signals tumors to self-destruct

Credit: Vanderbilt University Powerful molecules can hitch rides on a plentiful human protein and signal tumors to self-destruct, a team...

New therapeutic approach for difficult-to-treat subtype of ovarian cancer identified

PHILADELPHIA -- (July 24, 2017) -- A potential new therapeutic strategy for a difficult-to-treat form of ovarian cancer has been...

Researchers develop new method to generate human antibodies

Credit: Sanjuan Nandin et al., 2017 An international team of scientists has developed a method to rapidly produce specific human...

Breast cancer patients can use antiperspirants during radiotherapy

PHILADELPHIA - Women undergoing daily radiation therapy for breast cancer are commonly told they should not use antiperspirant for fear...

Immune cells the missing ingredient in new bladder cancer treatment

New research offers a possible explanation for why a new type of cancer treatment hasn't been working as expected against...

Weight in adolescence may affect colorectal cancer risk

A new study has uncovered a link between being overweight or obese in adolescence and an increased risk of developing...

Neuroticism may postpone death for some

Data from a longitudinal study of over 500,000 people in the United Kingdom indicate that having higher levels of the...

Georgia State’s Inlighta Biosciences gets $2 million grant to develop enhanced MRI contrast agents

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA -- A local start-up, life sciences company founded by Dr. Jenny Yang, Regents' Professor of...

NCI-COG Pediatric MATCH trial to test targeted drugs in childhood cancers

Today investigators at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Children's Oncology Group (COG) announced the opening of enrollment for...

Rahul Roychoudhuri awarded prestigious Lister Prize

Credit: Jonathan Lawson The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine has selected Babraham Institute group leader, Dr Rahul Roychoudhuri, to receive...

How can plant science solve the global challenges of the 21st century?

The New Phytologist Trust, in partnership with John Wiley & Sons, is announcing the launch of a new crossdisciplinary Open...

TPU scientists equip chemical sensors with ‘traps’ to detect toxic substances

Credit: Tomsk Polytechnic University Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University and the University of Chemistry and Technology (Prague, Czech Republic) have...

The oldest ‘bad boy’ in the world