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High-tech electronics made from autumn leaves
Credit: US National Park Service, Public Domain WASHINGTON, D.C., August, 29, 2017 -- Northern China's roadsides are peppered with deciduous...
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...
Cell symposia on CRISPR: From biology to technology
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, whose lab was involved in a recent, successful effort...
Climate may quickly drive forest-eating beetles north, says study
Credit: Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Over the next few decades, global warming-related rises in winter temperatures could significantly extend the...
Combination of conventional and new drugs enhances tumor cell death
Cancer is one of the major causes of death worldwide affecting 8.2 million of people per year, and in the...
It’s not a rat’s race for human stem cells grafted to repair spinal cord injuries
More than one-and-a-half years after implantation, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the San Diego...
GW researcher awarded $2 million to study natural immune response to HIV
WASHINGTON (Aug. 28, 2017) -- A research team at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences...
Algae fortifies coral reefs in past and present
Credit: Anna Weiss The Great Barrier Reef, and most other large reefs around the world, owe their bulk in large...
LSUHealthNO research award to improve heart attack recovery
New Orleans, LA - LSU Health New Orleans will receive $735,000 over two years to study the effectiveness of the...
Single-nucleus RNA sequencing, droplet by droplet
Credit: Susannah M. Hamilton and Tom Ulrich, Broad Communications Last year Broad researchers described a single-nucleus RNA sequencing method called...
New technique to aid IVF embryo selection
Credit: The IVF image is a freely usable public domain image with no copyright or acknowledgment required. Researchers at the...
New ancient sea reptile found in Germany — The earliest of its kind
Credit: Joschua Knuppe A previously unrecognized 132 million-year-old fossilized sea monster from northern Germany has been identified by an international...
Country’s largest estuary facing increasing acidification risk
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States and one of the largest in the world,...
New member of NAS reveals how animals select good microbes, reject harmful ones
Credit: Kent Nishimura Margaret McFall-Ngai, professor and director of the Pacific Biosciences Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science...
Special Nature Conservation issue: Monitoring protected insects in the European Union
Credit: Massimiliano Tini With biodiversity loss well underway, conservation measures are urgent on a global scale and the European Union...
CLAMP’s dual duties may make it model for studies of protein function in context
Credit: Rieder, et. al. PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- New research on a crucial protein in fruit flies provides a clear model...
Portland State research in ancient forests show link between climate change and wildfires
(Portland, Ore.) August 28, 2017 - Portland State researchers studying centuries-old trees in South America have found a tight correlation...
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