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Thousands of breast cancer gene variants engineered and analyzed
Credit: UW Medicine A new scientific analysis of nearly 4,000 mutations deliberately engineered into the BRCA1 gene will immediately benefit...
Findings could improve treatment for challenging acute leukemia in children
CHAPEL HILL -- Researchers from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center...
Global coastal wetlands need to move inland in fight against climate change
Credit: University of Lincoln Up to 30 per cent of coastal wetlands could be lost globally by the year 2100...
Ancient bird bones redate human activity in Madagascar by 6,000 years
Credit: ZSL Analysis of bones, from what was once the world's largest bird, has revealed that humans arrived on the...
UMN heads up new project to foster more collaboration among researchers
The issues facing modern society such as climate change, poverty, and the global economy have become more complex over time....
Breast cancer screening does not reduce mortality
Fewer and fewer women die from breast cancer in recent years but, surprisingly, the decline is just as large in...
Big data is synergized by team and open science
For some time, "big data" has loomed large as a source of challenges and opportunities for science, but as yet,...
Turtle species decline may impact environments worldwide
Credit: Jeff Lovich, USGS, Southwest Biological Science Center Approximately 61 percent of the world's 356 turtle species are threatened or...
New reports will enable UK to make the most of its natural assets
Credit: Video supplied by CEH Four new reports on Natural Capital published today will enable governments and businesses to take...
Ants surrender their venomous secrets
Venoms produced by snails, snakes, scorpions and spiders contain numerous bioactive compounds that could lead to therapeutic drugs or insect-specific...
Biophysics: Pile-ups in protein transport
Anyone who has ever tried to find a way through a crowded pedestrian zone has - literally - run into...
The world needs death and decomposition
Credit: MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - What if roadkill piled beside the road and never decomposed? What if massive fish...
NYSCF Research Institute and Tufts University to Partner on Neurodegeneration
Credit: Nicolas Rouleau and William Cantley (Tufts University) New York, NY (September 12, 2018) - The New York Stem Cell...
Wombat conference focuses on Aussie cultural icon
Experts from the world of wombats will gather for a three-day conference, titled Wombats Through Time and Space, at the...
KAIST professor Sang Yup Lee announced as the Eni Award recipient
Credit: KAIST Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at KAIST will be awarded...
Bacteriophages can affect melioidosis disease acquisition
Credit: Elena Khavina/MIPT Press Office An international research team from the University of Leicester from UK, Lomonosov Moscow State University...
The spark that created life
Credit: Monash University Evolution by Darwinian natural selection is immensely powerful - both in nature and within laboratories. Using 'laboratory...
Researchers uncover previously unstudied cancer enzyme
Researchers do not know how all the proteins and enzymes in the human body function, far from it. Now researchers...
Toward an ‘ultra-personalized’ therapy for melanoma
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science With new immunotherapy treatments for melanoma, recovery rates have risen dramatically, in some cases to...
Research Brief: Immediately limiting nicotine in all cigarettes could reduce smoking
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an advanced notice of a proposed rule in March that would reduce nicotine...
