Spanish scientists sequence the genome of the Iberian lynx, the most endangered felid
Credit: EBD-CSIC Spanish scientists have sequenced the genome of the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus), currently one of the world's most...
New Mekong River initiative will highlight values of biodiversity, ecosystems
Credit: Photo courtesy of Zeb Hogan, University of Nevada, Reno. With 60 million people depending on its aquatic resources for...
New approach for cancer prevention in BRCA1 mutation-positive women from Josef Penninger
Credit: copyright: IMBA Women with inherited mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes are at substantially higher risk of breast...
Asian head and neck cancer patients live longer with immunotherapy than mixed race group
LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 16 December, 2016 - Asian head and neck cancer patients live longer with the immunotherapy pembrolizumab than the overall...
Many early-onset colon cancers are caused by genetic mutations passed through families
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Gene mutations among young patients with colorectal cancer
While many patients with colorectal are diagnosed when they are older than 50, about 10 percent of patients are diagnosed...
Patient prostate tissue used to create unique model of prostate cancer biology
WASHINGTON (Dec. 15, 2016) -- For the first time, researchers have been able to grow, in a lab, both normal...
Potentially avoidable breast cancer surgeries cost patients and health-care system
Credit: UBC The number of breast cancer patients that have to be reoperated on in Canada is too high and...
Neural circuits underlying fly larval locomotion
In recent decades, larval fruit flies have generally been considered as a promising model to examine neural locomotor circuits. Drosophila...
Leibniz Prize for Britta Nestler
(Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) ) Professor Britta Nestler of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is granted the 2017 Gottfried Wilhelm...
Tumor gene test results can differ in same patients
Credit: Clare McLean A preliminary study comparing two commercially available, next-generation genetic sequencing tests in the same cancer patients shows...
Mind-controlled toys: The next generation of Christmas presents?
Credit: University of Warwick Toys controlled with the power of thoughts could become must-have gifts Warwick research connects human mind...
Fast track control accelerates switching of quantum bits
Credit: Image courtesy Peter Allen. From laptops to cellphones, today's technology advances through the ever-increasing speed at which electric charges...
Technique shrinks data sets for easier analysis
One way to handle big data is to shrink it. If you can identify a small subset of your data...
WPI researchers build liquid biopsy chip that detects metastatic cancer cells in blood
Loading video... Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - A chip developed by mechanical engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute...
Mystery of super flash solved
Credit: Chandra/Harvard When astronomers and astrophysicists observe flashes of light in the dark sky, they assume they have seen a...
A good nose in service of science: When fish smells ‘fishy’
A researcher in Germany is studying why fish sometimes smells 'fishy' and why customers often smell other aromas when they...
How to ‘sharpen’ an ultrasound scalpel
Researchers from the Laboratory for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, in cooperation with colleagues from...
Cooking with cast iron: Fact versus fiction (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2016 -- Cooks around the world prize their cast-iron cookware, which has...
No more burning batteries? Stanford scientists turn to AI to create safer lithium-ion batteries
Credit: L.A. Cicero/Stanford News Service Scientists have spent decades searching for a safe alternative to the flammable liquid electrolytes used...