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Whales turn tail at ocean mining noise
Credit: Photo credit - BRAHSS project (photo taken under permit as part of the Behavioural Response of Humpback Whales to...
Mosses used to evaluate atmospheric conditions in urban areas
Credit: Oishi Y. and Hiura T Researchers have developed a method to evaluate atmospheric conditions using mosses (bryophytes) in urban...
Scientists give star treatment to lesser-known cells crucial for brain development
Credit: Image courtesy of Sergiu Pasca, M.D., Stanford University. After decades of relative neglect, star-shaped brain cells called astrocytes are...
Comparing the jaws of porcupine fish reveals three new species
Credit: Aguilera et al. 2107 Researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and colleagues compared fossil porcupine fish jaws and...
Mars 2020 mission to use smart methods to seek signs of past life
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's Mars 2020 mission, which will look for signs of past life on Mars, will use smart methods...
Injecting manure instead of spreading on surface reduces estrogen loads
Credit: Michael Houtz With water quality in the Chesapeake Bay suffering from excess nutrients and fish populations in rivers such...
PCORI Board approves nearly $74 million for research on palliative care
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved nearly $74 million to fund seven...
PCORI Board approves $115 million to support 20 new patient-centered CER research studies
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved more than $115 million to fund...
CHLA researcher awarded $1.9 million by NIH
Muller Fabbri, MD, PhD, of the Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, has been...
How a nutrient, glutamine, can control gene programs in cells
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The 200 different types of cells in the body all start with the same DNA...
How decision-making habits influence the breast cancer treatments women consider
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- A new study finds that more than half of women with early stage...
Liquid biopsies find distinct genomic profiles in most patients with carcinoma of unknown primary
Bottom Line: Next-generation sequencing of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) identified distinct genomic profiles with potentially targetable alterations in 99.7 percent...
A metabolic treatment for pancreatic cancer?
BOSTON(August 14, 2017) - Pancreatic cancer is now the third leading cause of cancer mortality. Its incidence is increasing in...
CHOP to lead new pediatric data resource center for research in childhood cancer, birth defects
The Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) will lead a new, collaborative effort...
Skewing the aim of targeted cancer therapies
Credit: Georgia Tech / McDonald / Zhang Headlines, of late, have touted the successes of targeted gene-based cancer therapies, such...
Genome sequencing method can detect clinically relevant mutations using 5 CTCs
Bottom Line: Whole genome sequencing using long fragment read (LFR), a technology that can analyze the entire genomic content of...
$2.3 million in federal funding to JAX to support studies of aging immune system
Credit: Jackson Laboratory photo by Tiffany Laufer A new five-year federal research grant totaling $2,317,760 will fund studies by Jackson...
New Machine Learning program shows promise for early Alzheimer’s diagnosis
A new machine learning program developed by researchers at Case Western Reserve University appears to outperform other methods for diagnosing...
Chapman University’s School of Pharmacy receives research grants totaling $3.5 million
Credit: Chapman University ding each year, bringing the total awards since the School opened in 2014 to just more than...
An immune signaling pathway for control of Yellow Fever Virus infection
Credit: Florian Douam and Alexander Ploss Princeton University researchers have uncovered a critical role for a new immune signaling pathway...
