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Research brings personalized medicine to treat leukemia one step closer
Scientists at the University of Birmingham have revealed the roles that different types of gene mutations play in causing blood...
Pulling the genome apart: Chromosome segregation during mitosis explained
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan -- When a cell divides--a process known as mitosis--its chromosomes need to be separated and...
At African Ministerial Summit, IPBES experts detail continent’s critical biodiversity challenges
The threat today to African plants, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and large mammals is unprecedented, caused by a range of...
AI capable of outlining in a single chart information from thousands of scientific papers
Credit: NIMS NIMS and the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago have jointly developed a Computer-Aided Material Design (CAMaD) system capable...
Suicide handshakes kill precursor T cells that pose autoimmune dangers
Credit: NIAID/NIH Ball lands in cup; cup triggers spring; spring clamps lever onto ball and holds it tight. That's a...
Breakthrough in understanding how deadly pneumococcus avoids immune defences
Credit: UoL Scientists at the University of Liverpool have discovered a new and important function of a toxin produced by...
High availability of tobacco raises smoking rates in mothers-to-be
Women are more likely to smoke during pregnancy if they live in areas with lots of shops selling cigarettes, a...
Scientists shine new light on link between obesity and cancer
Scientists have made a major discovery that shines a new, explanatory light on the link between obesity and cancer. Their...
Improving understanding of how the solar system is formed
Credit: NASA/JPL Professor Frank Brenker, geophysicist at Goethe University has been working successfully with Professor Alexandor Kort for years. This...
Defective DNA damage repair leads to chaos in the genome
Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) have now found a cause for the frequent catastrophic events...
How pneumococci challenge our immune system
Pneumococci are the most common cause of respiratory tract infections, such as otitis and sinusitis, as well as of severe...
Renewable energy cooperatives, an opportunity for energy transition
Credit: Som Energia Cooperativa The transition from fossil to renewable energy sources is a necessary condition for the sustainability of...
Spectrum of cardiovascular toxicities with immune checkpoint inhibitors revealed
In the first large-scale analysis of cardiovascular complications linked to immune checkpoint inhibitors, Vanderbilt researchers have shown that heart and...
New Research: Streamside forests store tons of carbon
Restoring degraded forests is a critical strategy for addressing climate change given the potential for forests to store significant amounts...
Citizens prefer landscapes that combine nature with built infrastructure
A pioneering study analyses the photographs shared by citizens in social networks to evaluate the aesthetic consideration of natural landscapes....
Two-pronged device enables maverick immune cells to identify and kill cancers
Immune cells called Gamma Delta T cells can act independently to identify and kill cancer cells, defying the conventional view...
Scientists debunk potential link to crop cold tolerance
Credit: Charles Pignon, Marjorie Lundgren, Colin Osborne, and Stephen Long When temperatures drop, the enzyme Rubisco that fuels plant growth...
Artificial intelligence to accelerate malaria research
Credit: Insilico Medicine, Inc. Monday, November 12, 2018, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China - Insilico Taiwan, a Taipei-based subsidiary of...
Fecal transplant effective against immunotherapy-induced colitis
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON - For the first time, transplanting gut bacteria from healthy donors was used to...
Diabetes targeted in new bioengineering research at Clemson University
Credit: Clemson University Clemson University bioengineers are launching a new research project to better understand cardiovascular disease in patients with...
