Nutty stimulant revealed as anticancer tool
Credit: Combination of Wikimedia images Arecoline -- the stimulant component of areca nuts -- has anticancer properties, researchers at Winship...
Ice is no match for CSU-developed coating
FORT COLLINS, COLORADO - Anyone who's ever chipped ice off a windshield or nervously watched a plane get de-iced, take...
Tracking the flow of quantum information
Credit: Illustration by Michael S. Helfenbein/Yale University New Haven, Conn. - If objects in motion are like rainwater flowing through...
Estimating survival in patients with lung cancer, brain metastases
A new article published online by JAMA Oncology updates a tool to estimate survival in patients with lung cancer and...
Coral genomes reveal how populations rebound after environmental catastrophes
New genome-sequence data show that Caribbean corals that have survived mass-extinction events caused by environmental change can rebound and expand...
BC scientists play major role in international effort to map the human epigenome
BC scientists and their colleagues from across the globe have made a major leap forward in understanding how the human...
3-D imaging technique maps migration of DNA-carrying material at the center of cells
Credit: Berkeley Lab, UCSF Scientists have mapped the reorganization of genetic material that takes place when a stem cell matures...
Uncombable hair gene discovered
Credit: Photo: private Many parents know from their own experience that it is not always easy to comb children's hair....
Ducklings ‘maintain two separate memory banks of visual information’
Scientists from the University of Oxford have shown that newly hatched ducklings that are shown a substitute mother object with...
Study links health literacy to higher levels of health insurance coverage
Uninsured individuals who had greater knowledge about health insurance and financial issues were more likely to gain coverage after health...
T cell channel could be targeted to treat head and neck cancers
CINCINNATI--Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have discovered that an ion channel, active within T cells (white blood cells),...
Malaria parasite evades rapid test detection in children
Credit: Jonathan Parr Chapel Hill, NC - The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has one of the highest rates...
Does traffic-related air pollution increase asthma risk by stimulating immune mediated inflammation?
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, November17, 2016--A recent study of 577 children living in Puerto Rico...
Researchers examine how drug policy impacts HIV vulnerability among African-Americans
Although HIV rates are higher among the African American community compared to the White population, research shows that engagement in...
BAG3 protein plays critical role in protecting heart from reperfusion injury, Temple research shows
(Philadelphia, PA) - The inability of cells to eliminate damaged proteins and organelles following the blockage of a coronary artery...
The cell of origin in childhood brain tumors affects susceptibility to therapy
Children that are diagnosed with the severe the brain tumour malignant glioma often have a very poor prognosis. Knowledge about...
Virologists unravel mystery of late C20th gibbon leukaemia outbreak
The mystery of an outbreak of lymphoma and leukaemia in gibbon colonies in the US, Bermuda and Thailand in the...
New technology detects COPD in minutes
Credit: Swansea University This technology is now being taken forward commercially through the recently formed spin-out company PulmonIR Ltd. Clinical...
Men’s brains are found to be more greedy than women’s
It has long been known to science that women find it easier than men to multitask and switch between tasks....
Reducing unnecessary testing of UTIs improves patient care, saves resources
NEW YORK (November 17, 2016) - Many hospital patients may be unnecessarily tested, and treated, for catheter-associated urinary tract infections...
