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NSF awards grant to Portland State for state-of-the-art instrument
Portland State University investigators from the Departments of Chemistry and Biology have received a $350,000 grant from the National Science...
Substances associated with bee ferocity are discovered
Credit: Iago Bueno da Silva / UNESP Brazilian researchers may have discovered why Africanized honeybees are so aggressive. The scientists...
Scientists get new tool to track new pathogen killing frogs
Credit: University of Central Florida An undergraduate researcher has developed a method to screen frogs for an infectious disease that...
Snake fungal disease alters skin microbiome in eastern Massasaugas
Credit: Photo by Michael Dreslik In the first study of its kind, researchers characterized the skin microbiome of a population...
Lipid droplets play crucial roles beyond fat storage
Credit: University of Rochester image / Zhihuan Li Lipid droplets: they were long thought of merely as the formless blobs...
Research brief: UMN researchers use green gold to rapidly detect and identify harmful bacteria
Researchers from the University of Minnesota (UMN) have developed a method to screen and identify harmful or antibiotic-resistant bacteria within...
When mixing granular matter, order among disorder
Mixing liquids is easy, or at least scientifically understood: a drop of food coloring will eventually mix into a cup...
Model way to protect trees
Oak processionary moth and ash dieback are among the most notorious tree pests and diseases intro-duced into the UK. And...
Rare cancer could be caught early using simple blood tests
Credit: Wikipedia Commons A pioneering study into myeloma, a rare cancer, could lead to GPs using simple blood tests to...
Researchers predict risk for common deadly diseases from millions of genetic variants
Credit: Lauren Solomon A research team at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Harvard...
Researchers uncover a major new vulnerability of childhood leukemia
Credit: Kateřina Čermáková Childhood leukemia is a diagnosis that no family ever wants to endure. While the treatment of most...
MD Anderson and Accelerator Life Science Partners launch Magnolia Neurosciences
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Accelerator Life Science Partners, a leading life science investment and management...
Disrupted nitrogen metabolism might spell cancer
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Nitrogen is a basic building block of all the body's proteins, RNA and DNA, so...
Blood test could detect kidney cancer up to 5 years earlier
Scientists have discovered that a marker in the blood could help predict the risk that a person will develop kidney...
Duke team finds missing immune cells that could fight lethal brain tumors
Credit: Alisa Weigandt for Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- Glioblastoma brain tumors can have an unusual effect on the body's...
Cellular escape artists help explain why some women present with advanced ovarian cancer
More than two-thirds of women with ovarian cancer have high-grade serous carcinoma (HGSC). Up to 90 percent of HGSCs are...
First study on physical properties of giant cancer cells may inform new treatments
Credit: Michelle Dawson / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Polyploidal cancer cells--cells that have more than two copies of each...
Researchers create specialized delivery methods to help treat cancer, other disorders
Credit: Erica Overfelt, Bond Life Sciences Center More than 100 years ago, German Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich popularized the "magic...
Elephants resist cancer by waking a zombie gene
Elephants have evolved a way to make LIF6 (a non-functioning, or dead, gene in mammals) come back to life, and...
Zombie gene protects against cancer — in elephants
Credit: Eleanor Yarisse An estimated 17 percent of humans worldwide die from cancer, but less than five percent of captive...
