Despite failures, chemo still promising against dangerous childhood brain cancer, DIPG
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center The pediatric brain cancer known as diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is almost uniformly ...
Edmonton company Entos developing DNA vaccine against COVID-19
University of Alberta cancer researcher John Lewis's health-care biotechnology company is working on a vaccine to be delivered directly into ...
OSU research paves way to improved cleanup of contaminated groundwater
Credit: OSU College of Engineering CORVALLIS, Ore. - Beads that contain bacteria and a slow-release food supply to sustain them ...
Solving a 50-year-old puzzle in signal processing, part two:
Engineers explore algorithm's capabilities in special cases 'on the unit circle'Credit: Figure courtesy of Alexander Stoytchev. AMES, Iowa - Iowa ...
A critical enzyme for sperm formation could be a target for treating male infertility
The protein, SKP1, drives a key transition step in male meiosis, the type of cell division process that results in ...
Renewable energy developments threaten biodiverse areas
Credit: Francisca Hidalgo More than 2000 renewable energy facilities are built in areas of environmental significance and threaten the natural ...
A small forage fish should command greater notice, researchers say
UMass Amherst, more than 20 scientists urge greater effort to gather sand lance dataCredit: UMass Amherst/Keenan Yakola AMHERST, Mass. - ...
Eclectic rocks influence earthquake types
Credit: IODP JRSO New Zealand's largest fault is a jumble of mixed-up rocks of all shapes, sizes, compositions and origins. ...
Found in mistranslation
Researchers from the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, have found that global mistranslation of proteins increases cell survival under ...
Those living in rural areas, uninsured or on Medicaid less likely to receive recommended lung cancer treatment
Keck Medicine of USC study reveals that socioeconomic status disparities cause patients to miss out on treatment that improves five-year ...
Stanford engineers find ankle exoskeleton aids running
Credit: Farrin Abbott/Stanford News Service Running is great exercise but not everyone feels great doing it. In hopes of boosting ...
Parents’ physical activity helps kids with developmental disabilities improve motor skills
Credit: Courtesy of Oregon State University College of Public Health and Human Sciences CORVALLIS, Ore. -- It's a self-perpetuating cycle: ...
Ultrasound solves an important clinical problem in diagnosing arrhythmia
Columbia Engineers used their electromechanical wave imaging technique to localize cardiac arrhythmias more accurately than 12-lead electrocardiograms alone, while providing ...
New technologies aim to make 3D cameras easier to use
Credit: Song Zhang/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A 3D camera should be as easy to use as one found ...
Combination creates powerful central memory T cells for cellular therapy
Interleukin-21 plus panobinostat re-program effector cells to a more persistent type of T cellCredit: The University of Texas MD Anderson ...
Finnish researchers join forces to investigate the airborne transmission of coronavirus
The researchers are using a supercomputer to carry out 3D modelling and believe that the first results will be obtained ...
Computational human cell reveals new insight on genetic information processing
Credit: Graphic courtesy Zhaleh Ghaemi CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers have developed the first computational model of a human cell and ...
Here be dragons: Analysis reveals new species in Smaug lizard group
Credit: Edward Stanley GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Smaug, the deadly dragon in J.R.R Tolkien's "The Hobbit," has a few living relatives. ...
Labeling of cannabidiod products becoming a public health concern
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 25, 2020--The need for accurate and informative labeling of hemp ...
Snake venom evolved for prey not protection
Credit: Wolfgang Wuster It is estimated that every year, over 100,000 human deaths can be attributed to snakebite from the ...
