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The 2017 Balzan Prizewinners announced today in Milan
Milan, 11 September 2017 - The names of the 2017 Balzan Prizewinners were disclosed today in a public announcement: Aleida...
Savings less than expected for generic oral chemotherapy
CHAPEL HILL -- A study by researchers at the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy and Lineberger Comprehensive...
Revolutionary process could signal new era for gene synthesis
Credit: Karl Harrison A team of scientists led by the University of Southampton has demonstrated a groundbreaking new method of...
Combination targeted adjuvant therapy doubles relapse-free survival in stage III melanoma
LUGANO-MADRID, 11 September, 2017 - Combination targeted adjuvant therapy with dabrafenib and trametinib doubles relapse-free survival in patients with stage...
Adjuvant nivolumab superior to ipilimumab in surgically resected stage III/IV melanoma
LUGANO-MADRID, 11 September, 2017 - Adjuvant nivolumab is superior to standard of care ipilimumab in patients with surgically resected stage...
KEYNOTE-040 evaluates pembrolizumab in head and neck cancer
LUGANO-MADRID, 11 September, 2017 - Immunotherapy with the checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab may be a better option than standard treatments for...
Debate on duration of colon cancer adjuvant chemotherapy takes centre stage at ESMO 2017
LUGANO-MADRID, 11 September, 2017 - The debate on whether to shorten adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer from six to three...
Ramucirumab plus docetaxel improves progression-free survival in urothelial cancer
LUGANO-MADRID, 10 September, 2017 - Ramucirumab plus docetaxel improves progression-free survival in patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer who...
Mature results favor pembrolizumab as second-line treatment for bladder cancer
LUGANO-MADRID, 10 September, 2017 - Mature results from the KEYNOTE-045 trial to be presented today at the ESMO 2017 Congress...
Does health insurance status affect childhood cancer survival?
A new study examines whether insurance status may affect survival in children diagnosed with cancer. Published early online in CANCER,...
New method for monitoring fetal heartbeat
Researchers have developed a technique to accurately isolate fetal heart sounds from background noise in acoustic recordings, allowing them to...
Brain Composer: ‘Thinking’ melodies onto a musical score
(Graz University of Technology) TU Graz researchers develop new brain-computer interface application which allows music to be composed by the...
A novel and practical fab-route for superomniphobic liquid-free surfaces
Credit: KAIST A joint research team led by Professor Hee Tak Kim and Shin-Hyun Kim in the Department of Chemical...
Biodiversity just as powerful as climate change for healthy ecosystems
Credit: Emmett Duffy/Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Biodiversity is proving to be one of humanity's best defenses against extreme weather and...
MSU biologist learned what Przewalski’s horse ate more than a century ago
Credit: Natalia Spasskaya A scientist from the Lomonosov Moscow State University's Faculty of Biology together with her colleagues has explained...
Fathers can influence the sex of their offspring, scientists show
It has traditionally been thought that in mammals only mothers are able to influence the sex of their offspring. But...
Half-a-billion-year-old fossils shed light animal evolution on earth
Credit: University of Bristol Scientists have discovered traces of life more than half-a-billion years old that could change the way...
A biosensor detects adulteration of horse in beef meat within 1 hour
Credit: Nate Stelner. The identification of horse meat adulterating others as beef meat is possible thanks to an electrochemical biosensor...
Cocaine users’ brains unable to extinguish drug associations
Cocaine-addicted individuals say they find the drug much less enjoyable after years of use, but they have great difficulty quitting....
Livestock production, a much smaller challenge to global food security than often reported
Credit: GLEAM 2.0 Philadelphia, PA, September 11, 2017 - Humans face mounting challenges when it comes to finding ways to...
