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Alcohol is associated with higher risk of breast cancer in African-American women
Bottom Line: Alcohol consumption was associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in a large study of African-American women,...
Connecting the dots between insulin resistance, unhealthy blood vessels and cancer
Credit: John Soares BOSTON - (May 1, 2017) - Over the decades, scientists have repeatedly shown that patients with increased...
An illuminating honor
Credit: Melissa Van De Werfhorst UC Santa Barbara engineering professor Larry Coldren has received the 2017 Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award...
Developing climate-resilient wheat varieties
Credit: Mark Sorrells May 1, 2017 - Increases in climate variability have placed new emphasis on the need for resilient...
Galápagos study identifies keystone predator in a complex food web
Loading video... Credit: Witman/PLOS ONE PROVIDENCE, R.I. --Despite popular metaphors and cartoons depicting straightforward "food chains," ecologists such as Brown...
When single-family homes killed L.A.’s urban forest
Credit: USC News and Spatial Sciences Institute Plant a tree, save the world? Maybe, but preventing the chopping down of...
Kansas State University continues to lead effort to battle citrus greening
MANHATTAN, KANSAS - Kansas State University researchers will continue to lead efforts to combat a deadly bacterial disease that's affected...
Researchers to make corrections in climate change models
Global warming is a concept very well-known to people today, even those who are not particularly invested in such matters....
LSUHealthNO awarded $2.5m grant to develop better dental filling materials
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry New Orleans, LA - The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research...
Earthquakes can make thrust faults open violently and snap shut
Credit: Harsha Bhat/ENS It is a common trope in disaster movies: an earthquake strikes, causing the ground to rip open...
International Communication Association to hold annual conference in San Diego, CA
Washington, DC (May 1, 2017) The International Communication Association will hold its annual conference May 25-29 in San Diego, CA...
Serial analysis of CTCs may provide biomarker predictive of NSCLC response to crizotinib
Bottom Line: Among patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) fueled by ALK gene alterations who were being treated with...
New imaging method may predict immunotherapy response early
Bottom Line: A noninvasive PET imaging method that measures granzyme B, a protein released by immune cells to kill cancer...
Dr. Neville Sanjana receives 2017 melanoma research alliance young investigator award
NEW YORK, NY (May 1, 2017) - Dr. Neville Sanjana, Core Faculty Member at the New York Genome Center and...
Common antibiotics linked to increased risk of miscarriage
Many classes of common antibiotics, such as macrolides, quinolones, tetracyclines, sulfonamides and metronidazole, were associated with an increased risk of...
Physicists breeding Schroedinger cat states
Credit: Alexander Lvovsky (Toronto - May 1, 2017) Physicists have learned how they could breed Schrödinger cats in optics. CIFAR...
Rock samples indicate water is key ingredient for crust formation
Credit: Nick Dygert By examining the cooling rate of rocks that formed more than 10 miles beneath the Earth's surface,...
Get ready: Your future surgery may use an automated, robotic drill
Loading video... Credit: University of Utah A computer-driven automated drill, similar to those used to machine auto parts, could play...
Penn scientists illuminate genetics underlying the mysterious powers of spider silks
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Spider silks, ounce for ounce, can be stronger than steel, and much more tough...
Preschoolers’ story comprehension similar for print and digital books
The content of a children's book -- not its form as a print book or a digital book -- predicts...
