New driver, target in advanced mucosal melanoma
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Not all melanomas are created equal. While most melanomas appear on the skin as ...
Dartmouth researchers use new computational method to define immune cell interactions
Credit: Frederick S. Varn Immunotherapy, harnessing a patient's immune system to help fight cancer, has shown much promise as a ...
Scientists identify a black hole choking on stardust
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In the center of a distant galaxy, almost 300 million light years from Earth, scientists have discovered ...
Et Tu, E. Coli?
So they can't use smartphones or WiFi, but bacteria have evolved some seriously complex strategies to communicate with one another. ...
Marine recovery after mass extinction was likely delayed by further biotic crises
Credit: Richard Twitchett Biotic crises during the Triassic period may have delayed marine recovery after a mass extinction during the ...
How plankton cope with turbulence
Credit: © ETH Zürich Microscopic marine plankton are not helplessly adrift in the ocean. They can perceive cues that indicate ...
Scientists mobilize as bleaching resumes on Great Barrier Reef
Coral researchers are remobilising to conduct aerial and underwater surveys along the Great Barrier Reef and elsewhere in Australia as ...
Recovery after ‘great dying’ was slowed by more extinctions
Credit: William Foster/The University of Texas at Austin. Researchers studying marine fossil beds in Italy have found that the world's ...
New flexible sensor holds potential for foldable touch screens
Loading video... Credit: University of British Columbia Picture a tablet that you can fold into the size of a phone ...
From the butterfly’s wing to the tornado: Predicting turbulence
Loading video... Credit: Georgia Tech / Ben Brumfield An old adage holds that the flap of a butterfly's wing in ...
Predicting how bad the bends will be
Credit: Laurens Howle, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers have created a new model for predicting decompression sickness after deep-sea ...
YouTube users be aware: Your viewing habits can be tracked
BEER-SHEVA, Israel...March 15, 2017 -- Despite YouTube's attempts to safeguard user anonymity, intelligence agencies, hackers and online advertising companies can ...
Lyncean Technologies signs AXT Pty Ltd as representative in Australia and New Zealand
Lyncean Technologies, Inc., manufacturer of the Lyncean Compact Light Source (CLS), today announced the signing of AXT Pty Ltd as ...
Fossil or inorganic structure? Scientists dig into early life forms
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- An international team of researchers discovered that inorganic chemicals can self-organize into complex structures that mimic primitive ...
Detecting blood clot risk using biomarkers
Cancer is one of the hardest medical conditions to overcome, and for those who do so, the battle often does ...
When proteins court each other, the dance moves matter
Credit: Reprinted with permission of Biophysical Journal. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- At every moment inside the human body, a carefully choreographed ...
Wildly stronger sunflowers
Credit: Laura Marek Beauty and utility in one bright package, sunflowers are one of just a few commercial crops with ...
Soft coral exhibit strikingly different patterns of connectivity around British Isles
Credit: Dr. Jamie Stevens The evolution of land animals has been shaped by barriers such as oceans and mountains which ...
Novel mechanism that detains mobile genes in plant genome
Credit: Hokkaido University Transposable elements (TEs), also known as mobile genes, are considered parasites of host genomes because they act ...
Researchers mapped interactions of key group of human proteins, the protein phosphatases
Credit: Markku Varjosalo Coordinated activities of protein kinases and protein phosphatases ensure phosphorylation homeostasis and amplitude of signaling response, and ...
