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A novel strategy to potentially reduce breast cancer bone metastasis
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Uncovering a novel mechanism that promotes growth of breast cancer bone metastasis has revealed a...
Ultra-thin transparent silver films for solar cells
Credit: RUB, Marquard A new fabrication process for transparent ultra-thin silver films has been developed by researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum...
Which outreach method encourages patients overdue for cancer screening to get tested?
Credit: St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, November 12, 2018 - Phone calls are more effective reminders for patients to book cancer...
Patients’ own cells and materials used to create personalized tissue implants of any kind
In a new study, Tel Aviv University researchers reveal how they invented the first fully personalized tissue implant, engineered from...
A step closer to ‘design on demand’ scaffolds for tissue regeneration
Credit: Lehigh University The structure of cross-linked polymeric gels is very similar to soft tissue?which is one reason that understanding...
Cancer stem cells get energy from protein, and it’s proving to be their Achilles’ heel
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Think of energy metabolism like a party popper: Ripping something apart releases a bang....
New strategy discovered toward possible prevention of cancers tied to mono
Researchers from the University of Minnesota, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the University of Toronto have discovered a possible...
Synthetic molecule invades double-stranded DNA
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a synthetic molecule that can recognize and bind to double-stranded...
Obesity both feeds tumors and helps immunotherapy kill cancer
Credit: UC Davis Health A groundbreaking new study by UC Davis researchers has uncovered why obesity both fuels cancer growth...
INCITE grants awarded to 62 computational research projects
Credit: Technische Universitaet Ilmenau/Joerg Schumacher The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science announced 62 projects for 2019 aimed...
From the cosmos to fusion plasmas, PPPL presents findings at global APS gathering
Credit: Derek M. H. Hung More than 135 researchers and students from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma...
Big data and advanced artificial intelligence techniques to tackle Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Sports concussions, Parkinson's disease, and hormone therapy for cancer - all can...
New framework pushes the limits of high-performance computing
Credit: Virginia Tech Large-scale, advanced high-performance computing, often called supercomputing, is essential to solving both complex and large questions. Everything...
From beaker to solved 3D structure in minutes
Credit: Caltech In a new study that one scientist called jaw-dropping, a joint UCLA/Caltech team has shown that it is...
Insufficient sleep in children is associated with poor diet, obesity and more screen time
DARIEN, IL - A new study conducted among more than 177,000 students suggests that insufficient sleep duration is associated with...
Study suggests diabetes medication improves heart structure
Credit: St. Michael's Hospital A study led by St. Michael's Hospital researchers, and presented at a prestigious late-breaker session at...
Breakthrough in understanding how deadly pneumococcus avoids immune defenses
Credit: UoL Scientists at the University of Liverpool have discovered a new and important function of a toxin produced by...
From beaker to solved 3-D structure in minutes
Credit: Caltech In a new study that one scientist called jaw-dropping, a joint UCLA/Caltech team has shown that it is...
Those using psychotropic drugs in suicide attempts more likely to have had prescriptions
AURORA, Colo. (Nov. 12, 2018) - As prescriptions for psychotropic drugs increase, researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical...
COPD patients rarely receive pulmonary rehabilitation despite its health benefits
Nov 12, 2018--Only a tiny fraction of patients hospitalized for COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, participate in a pulmonary...
