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‘Electrospray’ could revolutionize manufacturing; grant recipient to explore 3-D printing
IMAGE: Paul Chiarot, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Binghamton University, recently received a five-year, $500,000 grant from the...
Cardiologists use 3-D printing to personalize treatment for heart disease
Credit: The University of Melbourne University of Melbourne doctors and engineers are using supercomputers to create 3D models from patients...
3-D printing creates knee model for evaluating patellar disorders and surgical approaches
New Rochelle, NY, April 7, 2016–A new, low-cost approach to building a knee model for studying knee pain and impaired...
Taking on melanoma, one cell at a time
The following is adapted from a Q&A published today by the Broad Institute. Single-cell analysis is a groundbreaking approach now...
Controlling ‘bad cholesterol’ production could prevent growth of tumors, study finds
Several studies have recognized a link between obesity and cancer. Richard Lehner, professor of Pediatrics and investigator at the University...
Dressed to kill: Tailoring a suit for tumor-penetrating cancer meds
For more than a decade, biomedical researchers have been looking for better ways to deliver cancer-killing medication directly to tumors...
Method for earlier detection of leukemia wins $300,000 grant
A unique pitch competition hosted by the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research on Friday awarded a team of...
Cartilage protein may contribute to the development of breast cancer
Credit: Photo: Anna Bloms / Lund University Research from Lund University in Sweden shows that the protein COMP, which mainly...
Implantable device targets pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer is the third leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, in part because it is very...
Organ recipients with previous cancers linked to higher death rates, new cancers
TORONTO, April 22, 2016–People who had cancer before receiving an organ transplant were more likely to die of any cause,...
Risk factors identified for acute pancreatitis that can disrupt leukemia treatment
Researchers have identified a rare genetic variation associated with a dramatically increased risk of severe acute pancreatitis in acute lymphoblastic...
Scientists to crack the genetic code of the Y chromosome in malaria mosquitoes
Human malaria, uniquely transmitted by a handful of anopheline mosquitoes, continues to attack nearly 200 million people and claims the...
Protein SIRT5 linked to healthy heart function
ITHACA, N.Y. – The human heart is a remarkable muscle, beating more than 2 billion times over the average life...
Ensuring the integrity of our genetic material during reproduction
This news release is available in German. Our genetic material – our DNA – must be stable; so that it...
Neanderthal Y chromosome offers clues to what kept us separate species
Researchers reporting in the American Journal of Human Genetics, published by Cell Press, have completed the first in-depth genetic analysis...
Function of mysterious RNAs may often lie in their genes
PHILADELPHIA–A new genetic clue discovered by a team co-led by a researcher at the Perelman School of Medicine at the...
Rare disease gene has a key role in chronic hepatitis C infection
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) hijacks the host's fat metabolism for its own survival, growth, and transport in the human body....
New structure identified in membrane of disease-causing bacteria
AMHERST, Mass. – Mycobacteria cause a number of dangerous, difficult-to-treat diseases including leprosy and tuberculosis, and progress has been slow...
Neuronal structures associated with memory sprout in response to novel molecules
Chemists at the University of California San Diego have designed a set of molecules that promote microscopic, anatomical changes in...
A common brain cell shapes the nervous system in unexpected ways
More than half of our brains are made up of glial cells, which wrap around nerve fibers and insulate them–similarly...