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Physicians can better predict outcomes for kidney transplant patients with key data, study finds
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Kidney transplant patients have a better chance of survival if physicians use all the data that's...
Top 10 PPPL stories that you shouldn’t miss
Credit: Elle Starkman/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory The past year saw many firsts in experimental and theoretical research at the U.S....
Researchers find key genetic driver for rare type of triple-negative breast cancer
Credit: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- For more than a decade, Celina Kleer, M.D., has been...
Historical documents reveal evidence of Japanese winemaking 400-year ago
Credit: Professor Tsuguharu Inaba The history of wine in Japan is short, with full scale brewing beginning only 150 years...
Off-grid power in remote areas will require special business model to succeed
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Low-cost, off-grid solar energy could provide significant economic benefit to people living in some remote areas, but...
Accelerated discovery a triple threat to triple negative breast cancer
Credit: Houston Methodist Hospital Study Highlights Discovered a gene mutation driving formation of most aggressive triple negative breast cancer. Identified...
Great Barrier Reef almost drowned; climate implications
Credit: University of Sydney An analysis of the Great Barrier Reef during a time prior to it becoming the modern...
New plant named to honor the peace-making efforts of the Colombian President
(Pensoft Publishers) Named to honor the peace-making efforts of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, a new species of the sunflower...
The BGRF joins Diversity.AI to prevent age discrimination in aging biomarker development
Credit: Diversity.AI (http://diversity.ai/) Earlier this year scientists at the Biogerontology Research Foundation contributed to the development of Aging.AI, which utilized...
The 22nd Nagoya Medal Award lectures
The Nagoya Medal Prize was initially proposed by Professor Hisashi Yamamoto and Professor Ryoji Noyori, and founded in 1995 with...
Halting lethal childhood leukemia
Rare leukemia primarily strikes newborns and infants Less than 10 to 20 percent of children live more than five years...
Indoor tanning study reveals surprising new at-risk group for skin cancer
Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 (SAN DIEGO) - In a new study of indoor tanning and skin cancer risk, the use...
Open-source plant database confirms top US bioenergy crop
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois Scientists have confirmed that Miscanthus, long speculated to be the top biofuel producer,...
Worms have teenage ambivalence, too
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA -- (Jan. 5, 2017) Anyone who has allowed a child to "help" with a project...
Older lung cancer patients face significant treatment burden
Depending on the type of treatment older lung cancer patients receive, they can spend an average of one in three...
Consumption of grilled meat linked to higher mortality risk among breast cancer survivors
Findings published in JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute indicate that higher consumption of grilled, barbecued, and smoked meat...
Research sheds new light on high-altitude settlement in Tibet
Humans likely established permanent settlements on the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau between 13,000-7,400 years ago, according to new research published this...
Using fat to help wounds heal without scars
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Doctors have found a way to manipulate wounds to heal as regenerated skin rather than...
Measuring trees with the speed of sound
Credit: Javier O. Ballesteros and Gregory S. Gilbert. From Gilbert, Gregory S., Javier O. Ballesteros, Cesar A. Barrios-Rodriguez, Ernesto F....
Arctic sea ice loss impacts beluga whale migration
Credit: Kate Stafford/University of Washington The annual migration of some beluga whales in Alaska is altered by sea ice changes...
