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Processed food: What Big Food doesn’t want you to know and its critics won’t tell you
Every food decision we make involves a trade-off of some kind. A healthy option might not be the most environmentally-friendly;...
Photosynthesis discovery could help design more efficient artificial solar cells
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--A natural process that occurs during photosynthesis could lead to the design of more efficient artificial...
Bowel cancer study reveals impact of mutations on protein networks
For the first time, scientists have completed a detailed study of many of the proteins in bowel cancer cells. Scientists...
In the face of climate change can our engineers keep the trains running on time?
Physicist Michio Kaku once said, "What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics...
Thorough analysis reveals immune system dynamics after immunotherapy
By combining new system-biological analyses and advanced data analysis, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have been able to monitor the maturation...
A new method to estimate total organic carbon content
One key property to evaluate the prospects of any shale oil or gas is its total organic carbon (TOC) richness....
Drought response in global crops may be as complex as day and night
Credit: David Hirsch Researchers have identified a set of genes that help control early drought response in a popular global...
Electrical nerve-block research aims at asthma, heart failure
Biomedical engineering researchers at Case Western Reserve University are refining more than 15 years of work on an electrical nerve-block...
Say hello to the 3-D Obama ant
Credit: Zookeys Journal Biologists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have named three new, rare...
The eyes have it
Our bodies, with all their different features and variations, are the result of well-orchestrated processes that dictate what and how...
Researchers discover new immunotherapy combination effective at killing cancer cells
Credit: Photos provided by Doug Mahoney's lab Immunotherapy is an emerging field in the global fight against cancer, even though...
Using DNA to predict schizophrenia and autism
Credit: Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) Huntington's disease, cystic fibrosis, and muscular dystrophy are all diseases that can be traced to...
New osteoporosis treatment uses traditional Chinese herb to prevent bone loss
An herb widely used in traditional Chinese medicine might hold the key to a new osteoporosis therapy that could prevent...
Extreme exposure
Although common opinion holds that exposure to pesticides increases adverse birth outcomes, the existing body of scientific evidence is ambiguous....
Bahamian songbirds disappeared during last glacial-interglacial transition
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- Two species of songbirds that once made a home in the Bahamas likely...
Faulty DNA repair depresses neural development
Credit: Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) DNA is the computer code that programs every event in the body. Despite the importance...
Boosting immune cell memory to improve vaccines and cancer immunotherapy
Credit: UC San Diego Health Vaccines and cancer immunotherapies do essentially the same thing: They boost a person's immune system,...
Mass. General team reports first response of central nervous system tumor to CAR T-cells
In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team reports a remarkable...
New app uses smartphone selfies to screen for pancreatic cancer
Credit: Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering Pancreatic cancer has one of the worst prognoses -- with...
Concurrent treatment with OX40- and PD1-targeted cancer immunotherapies may be detrimental
Bottom Line: Concurrent administration of the T-cell stimulating anti-OX40 antibody and the immune checkpoint inhibitor anti-PD1 antibody attenuated the effect...
