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October 3, 2025

Sensing technology takes a quantum leap with RIT photonics research

Credit: J. Adam Fenster and Prof. A. N. Vamivakas, University of Rochester Research underway at RIT advances a new kind...

Salamanders that breed in the fall are less likely to disperse

Credit: MU Division of Biological Sciences With changing environments, pond-breeding salamanders face increasingly hazardous treks as the space between breeding...

Research opens possibility of reducing risk of gut bacterial infections with next-generation probiotic

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A team of researchers is exploring the possibility that next-generation probiotics - live bacteria that...

Scientists unearth cell ‘checkpoint’ that stops allergic diseases

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have made a significant breakthrough in understanding the regulation of immune cells that play a...

Research to advance disease therapies, understand cosmic rays among cargo headed to ISS

Credit: NASA The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is targeted for launch August 14 from Kennedy Space Center for its twelfth...

Improving detection of a ‘date rape’ drug

Because gamma hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), commonly known as a "date rape drug" is rapidly absorbed and metabolized by the body,...

Family break-ups lead to domestic violence in fruit fly relationships

Credit: Amy Hong Male fruit flies with strong family ties are less likely to become abusive during mating than others,...

Bill Gates and Francis Collins to speak at ASHG 2017

WHEN: Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, 5:00-6:30 pm WHERE: Orange County Convention Center, South Building, Hall B 9800-9899 International Drive, Orlando,...

How cicadas manage to ‘wing it’

(American Chemical Society) Unlike locusts and many other flying insects, cicadas don't soar through the air with the greatest of...

Decommissioning Platform Holly

When the Colorado-based oil company Venoco, Inc. -- founded in Carpinteria, California, more than two decades ago -- declared bankruptcy...

NYITCOM researcher discovers potential cancer treatment breakthrough

Patients undergoing conventional chemotherapy for certain cancers could potentially receive more effective and less toxic drug treatment. In a July...

New genes discovered regulating brain metastases in lung cancer

Credit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (August 8, 2017) - Research from McMaster University has identified new regulators of brain metastases...

New study discovers ‘killer peptide’ that helps eliminate resistant cancer cells

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 4, 2017) - A new study by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers shows that when...

$15 million grant to LSU Health New Orleans to help reduce cancer in louisiana

New Orleans, LA - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded LSU Health New Orleans School of...

First-in-class drug holds promise for therapy-resistant breast cancer

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Aug. 8, 2017 - UT Southwestern Simmons Cancer Center researchers have shown that a first-in-class...

Colorectal cancer death rates rising in people under 55

ATLANTA -August 8, 2017- A new report finds that colorectal cancer mortality rates have increased in adults under 55 since...

Racial differences for trends in colorectal cancer mortality rates

Colorectal cancer mortality rates have decreased since 1970 in black individuals 20 to 54 years of age, but have increased...

Mental illness, suicide, and ‘intractable violence’ creating ‘lost generation’ in Middle East

SEATTLE (7 August 2017) - Suicide, homicide, and sexual assault are increasing much faster in the Eastern Mediterranean Region than...

Clinical trial shows ready-to-use cells are safe and effective to treat viral infections

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Patients who receive a hematopoietic stem cell transplant are at risk of developing potentially lethal...

Prostate cancer cells become ‘shapeshifters’ to spread to distant organs