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Genetic test successfully detects some asymptomatic pancreatic cancers
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 2, 2017 - A genetic test developed at UPMC proved highly sensitive at determining which pancreatic cysts are...
Family Medicine and Community Health Journal volume 5, issue number 2 publishes
Beijing, Sept. 21, 2017: The Summer 2017 issue, a special issue entitled "Primary care and cancer", Guest Editor: Li Li,...
World’s first super-microsurgery operation with ‘robot hands’
Credit: Microsure MAASTRICHT, Oct. 2, 2017 - Plastic surgeons at Maastricht University Medical Center have used a robotic device to...
Ben-Gurion U. Developing new sensor with the ram group for earlier disease diagnosis
Ben-Gurion University Announces Collaboration With Ram Group to Develop a New Diagnostic Sensor for Earlier Diagnosis of Diseases BEER-SHEVA, Israel,...
Doctors define ‘safe and effective’ margins for ‘one and done’ skin removal around suspicious moles
By carefully tracing a line of at least 2 millimeters outside of and around the edges of a mole that...
By decoding how HPV causes cancer, researchers find a new potential treatment strategy
WASHINGTON -- A study that teases apart the biological mechanisms by which human papillomaviruses (HPV) cause cancer has found what...
Liquid biopsies may help predict response to immune checkpoint inhibitors
Bottom Line: The number of alterations detected in the DNA collected from blood samples (liquid biopsies) of cancer patients treated...
DNA mutations shed in blood predicts response to immunotherapy in patients with cancer
In a first-of-its-kind study, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers report that a blood sample, or liquid...
Study published in Nature reveals molecular pathway of weight-controlling hormone
Credit: NGM Bio SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Oct. 2, 2017 - Scientists at NGM Bio have revealed deep insights...
Animals that play with objects learn how to use them as tools
Credit: Megan Lambert, University of York Researchers have discovered that New Caledonian crows and kea parrots can learn about the...
CU Researchers win prestigious $2 million NIH grant for brain study
AURORA, Colo. (Oct. 2, 2017) - Researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and the University of Colorado...
US Department of Energy awards Danforth Center $16M to enhance sorghum for bioenergy
Credit: NA ST. LOUIS, MO, Oct. 2, 2017 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, one of the world's largest...
US Department of Energy awards Danforth Center $16 million to enhance sorghum for bioenergy
Credit: NA ST. LOUIS, MO, Oct. 2, 2017 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, one of the world's largest...
DNA: The next hot material in photonics?
Credit: Kyunghwan Oh, Yonsei University WASHINGTON -- Using DNA from salmon, researchers in South Korea hope to make better biomedical...
New insights into leading cause of miscarriage, birth defects discovered
Credit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. --- Two recent Northwestern University studies shed new light on the mystery of the leading...
UTSA receives $200,000 grant for cancer drug research
Doug Frantz, the Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Distinguished Professor in Chemistry at The University of Texas at San Antonio...
Children without allergies can still be afflicted with asthma-like coughing and wheezing
EMBARGOED UNTIL 9:00 a.m., ET, Monday, October 2, 2017, Cleveland: Doctors have long wondered why children without allergies can still...
Tracking live brain activity with the new NeuBtracker open-source microscope
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) A team of scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München and...
Evolutionary crop research: Ego-plants give lower yield
Credit: Copenhagen University Survival of the fittest is a fundamental concept in Darwin's theory of natural selection which drives evolution....
RUDN University scientists described the distribution of soil microorganisms
Credit: Yakov Kuzyakov Scientists from RUDN University have classified the distribution of soil microorganisms at different latitudes from tropical to...
