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Just one alcoholic drink a day increases breast cancer risk, exercise lowers risk
WASHINGTON, DC -- Drinking just one glass of wine or other alcoholic drink a day increases breast cancer risk, finds...
Labeling a bacterial cell ‘jacket’
Credit: Evan Krape/ University of Delaware You have three to five pounds of bacteria living in and on your body...
Research decoding the first deep-sea mussel genome published in Nature
Credit: Hong Kong Baptist University A joint research led by Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) and the Hong Kong University...
Fall calving season may yield higher returns for southeastern beef producers
Credit: Photo by T. Johnson, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The vast majority of cow-calf producers in Tennessee and the...
USDA invests $2.5 million in commodity board projects to support Ag industry
WASHINGTON, D.C. May 24, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today...
AstraZeneca and the Francis Crick Institute sign research agreement
The Francis Crick Institute has signed a new research agreement with global biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. The five-year initiative will see...
A new T-cell population for cancer immunotherapy
Scientists at the University of Basel in Switzerland have, for the first time, described a new T cell population that...
Where body fat is carried can predict cancer risk
Scientists have found that carrying fat around your middle could be as good an indicator of cancer risk as body...
Increased lysyl oxidase may be a significant contributor to heart disease and cancer
It's known that people with high blood pressure have increased levels of the enzyme lysyl oxidase (LOX), but it has...
Brain microenvironment makes HER2-positive breast cancer metastases resistant to treatment
While target therapies directed toward genetic mutations that drive a tumor's growth have significantly improved the outlook for many patients,...
The birth and death of a tectonic plate
Credit: Dave O'Gorman Several hundred miles off the Pacific Northwest coast, a small tectonic plate called the Juan de Fuca...
New brain mapping tool produces higher resolution data during brain surgery
Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Researchers have developed a new device to map the brain during...
A CLOUD of possibilities: Finding new therapies by combining drugs
Credit: © Nature Chemical Biology / Stefan Kubicek (Vienna, May 22, 2017) Two drugs taken together can sometimes lead to...
Tracking cancer’s signaling pathways
Malignant melanoma is one of the most common and dangerous types of cancer. Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) investigated...
Study offers guidance for targeting residual ovarian tumors
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Most women diagnosed with ovarian cancer undergo surgery to remove as many of the tumors as possible....
BU researcher receives entrepreneur award from the American Thoracic Society
(Boston) -- Avrum Spira, MD, MSc, professor of medicine, pathology and bioinformatics at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), is...
Printed, flexible and rechargeable battery can power wearable sensors
Credit: Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed the first printed...
Oyster farming to benefit from new genetic screening tool
Oyster farmers are set to benefit from a new genetic tool that will help to prevent disease outbreaks and improve...
Better science faster
In 2012, scientists at UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) launched the Ocean Health Index...
Cryobank of biotechnological plant material has been opened in the Moscow State University
In the new cryodepository, first it is planned to place duplicates of the most valuable samples from the collection of...
