Breast cancer follow-up imaging varies widely, study finds
Follow-up imaging for women with non-metastatic breast cancer varies widely across the country, according to a new study led by ...
How fast can acute stroke treatment become to still be reliable?
Every day roughly three new stroke suspects are rushed by ambulance to Helsinki University Hospital Emergency Department to be considered ...
Yale researchers identify target for novel malaria vaccine
Credit: Richard Bucala New Haven, Conn. -- A Yale-led team of researchers have created a vaccine that protects against malaria ...
Researchers trace Parkinson’s damage in the heart
MADISON, Wis. -- A new way to examine stress and inflammation in the heart will help Parkinson's researchers test new ...
Fragile X: New drug strategy corrects behavior/biochemical measures in mouse model
Research in mice shows that a pharmacological strategy can alleviate multiple behavioral and cellular deficiencies in a mouse model of ...
Rats trail behind shrews, monkeys, and humans in visual problem solving
Credit: Mustafar et al., eNeuro (2018) Rats take a fundamentally different approach toward solving a simple visual discrimination task than ...
Understanding the social dynamics that cause cooperation to thrive, or fail
Credit: Amiyaal Ilany Examples of cooperation abound in nature, from honeybee hives to human families. Yet it's also easy enough ...
New research: Financial incentives create critical waterbird habitat in extreme drought
News Release: July 12, 2018 - Projections by climate scientists suggest that severe droughts may become more frequent over the ...
Longer contracts leverage the free fuel in solar power at little O&M cost
Credit: ®SENER The world's first 35-year day or night solar contract (ACWA Power's with DEWA in Dubai) also had a ...
URI-led consortium selected to operate new research ship to replace R/V Endeavor
Credit: Glosten Assocates KINGSTON, R.I. - July 12, 2018 - The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected the East Coast ...
Massive genome havoc in breast cancer is revealed
Credit: Schatz Lab, CSHL/JHU Cold Spring Harbor, NY - In cancer cells, genetic errors wreak havoc. Misspelled genes, as well ...
New evidence of two subspecies of American pikas in Rocky Mountain National Park
CORVALLIS, Ore. -Rocky Mountain National Park provides habitat for not one, but two subspecies of the American pika, a species ...
Algae have land genes
Credit: (Picture rotated 90 degrees: Nora Stingl, Rob Roelfsema, Anna Alova) 500 million years ago, the first plants living in ...
International collaboration finds land plant genes in ancient aquatic alga
Credit: Melanie Barth and Debbie Maizels Land plants, which split from their aquatic relatives 500 million years ago, are an ...
Climate change-induced march of treelines halted by unsuitable soils: study
Credit: University of Guelph New research from the University of Guelph is dispelling a commonly held assumption about climate change ...
Purdue startup developing device that detects mosquito-borne diseases
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A startup created by Purdue University professors is developing a sensor that can detect dangerous mosquito-borne ...
Bioengineers create pathway to personalized medicine
ITHACA, N.Y.- Engineering cellular biology, minus the actual cell, is a growing area of interest in biotechnology and synthetic biology. ...
Georgia State researcher gets $419,100 grant to study virus similar to Ebola virus
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Dr. Christopher Basler, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, director ...
Guardian of the cell
Credit: Wen Zhou, Harvard Medical School The human body is built for survival. Each one of its cells is closely ...
Study shows biomarker panel boosts lung cancer risk assessment for smokers
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center A four-protein biomarker blood test improves lung cancer risk assessment over existing guidelines that rely ...
