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October 2, 2025

Climate change projected to significantly increase harmful algal blooms in US freshwaters

Credit: Hans W. Paerl, Ph.D a study co-author/University of North Carolina MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE (August 15, 2017) - Harmful algal blooms known...

White matter connectome with cortical lesion map clarifies temporal auditory comprehension

Credit: From: Temporal lobe networks supporting the comprehension of spoken words Brain. Published online August 03, 2017. doi:10.1093/brain/awx169 Brain |...

Clinical trial uses a genetically engineered virus to fight cancer

Credit: Sanford Health SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Sanford Health is the first site in the United States to launch a...

Rhapsody in red violet

Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Color in the plant kingdom is not merely a joy to the eye. Colored pigments...

Oxford University Press to publish American Society for Nutrition Journals

Oxford University Press and the American Society for Nutrition are pleased to announce a new partnership to publish the society's...

Sensory makeup of mosquitoes used to fight spread of disease

Credit: Photo by University of Nevada, Reno Assistant Professor Andrew Nuss. University of Nevada, Reno entomologist Andrew Nuss and biologist...

Older cancer patients rate own physical abilities as better than their caregivers do

Older cancer patients and their caregivers often differ in their assessment of the patient's physical abilities, with caregivers generally rating...

‘Acidic patch’ regulates access to genetic information

Credit: Courtesy of Nature Chromatin remodelers -- protein machines that pack and unpack chromatin, the tightly wound DNA-protein complex in...

Cancer-fighting T cells are smarter, stronger than experts thought

Credit: Yinnian Feng/Vanderbilt University Scientists studying the body's cancer-fighting T cells have a serious problem: When they culture them in...

New cancer diagnosis may come with risk of thromboembolism

WASHINGTON (Aug. 14, 2017) -- Patients newly diagnosed with cancer may have a substantially increased short-term risk of arterial thromboembolism,...

Clinical trial eligibility criteria a growing obstacle

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Aug. 14, 2017 - Despite a decade-long call for simplification of clinical trials, the number...

Discovery of new prostate cancer biomarkers could improve precision therapy

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a new cause of treatment resistance in prostate cancer. Their discovery also...

Ohio State Cancer researchers validate a clinical test for fusion genes

Columbus, Ohio - An assay that identifies a peculiar but important abnormality in cancer cells has been developed and validated...

From thousands of suspects, Yale researchers ferret out cancer-causing genes

A Yale-led team of researchers has identified specific gene combinations that can cause deadly brain cancer glioblastoma, using new technology...

From cancer evolution to personalized therapies

Lausanne, 14 August 2017 - Being able to predict the resistance or sensitivity of a tumour cell to a drug...

Breast cancer study in India shows how the country can avoid crisis

Credit: University of Portsmouth A new study examining breast cancer awareness in India has found that a lack of early...

Important to communicate cancer prevention message to young adults to reduce risks later in life

Ann Arbor, MI, Aug. 14, 2017 - The latest estimates suggest that, by 2020, more than 1.9 million Americans will...

Protein to stop acute cerebral hemorrhage

Credit: DGIST DGIST (President, Sang Hyuk Son) announced that a research team led by principal researcher Won Bae Jeon at...

Ozone treaty taking a bite out of US greenhouse gas emissions

WASHINGTON D.C. -- The Montreal Protocol, the international treaty adopted to restore Earth's protective ozone layer in 1989, has significantly...

Cancer detection with sugar molecules