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World’s first super-microsurgery operation with ‘robot hands’
Credit: Microsure MAASTRICHT, Oct. 2, 2017 - Plastic surgeons at Maastricht University Medical Center have used a robotic device to...
Ben-Gurion U. Developing new sensor with the ram group for earlier disease diagnosis
Ben-Gurion University Announces Collaboration With Ram Group to Develop a New Diagnostic Sensor for Earlier Diagnosis of Diseases BEER-SHEVA, Israel,...
Doctors define ‘safe and effective’ margins for ‘one and done’ skin removal around suspicious moles
By carefully tracing a line of at least 2 millimeters outside of and around the edges of a mole that...
By decoding how HPV causes cancer, researchers find a new potential treatment strategy
WASHINGTON -- A study that teases apart the biological mechanisms by which human papillomaviruses (HPV) cause cancer has found what...
Liquid biopsies may help predict response to immune checkpoint inhibitors
Bottom Line: The number of alterations detected in the DNA collected from blood samples (liquid biopsies) of cancer patients treated...
DNA mutations shed in blood predicts response to immunotherapy in patients with cancer
In a first-of-its-kind study, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers report that a blood sample, or liquid...
Genetic study investigates ways to increase productivity and tenderness of meat
Credit: Heitor Shimizu / Agência FAPESP Brazil has the world's largest commercial beef herd, numbering over 225 million heads of...
GM soybean oil causes less obesity and insulin resistance but is harmful to liver function
Credit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have tested a genetically-modified (GM)...
SenGupta authors ‘Ion Exchange in Environmental Processes’ book
Credit: John Wiley & Sons Arup K. SenGupta, P.C. Rossin Professor in the departments of civil and environmental engineering and...
Most Americans want the government to combat climate change, some willing to pay a high amount
Sixty-one percent of Americans think climate change is a problem that the government needs to address, including 43 percent of...
Random movements help color-detecting cells form the proper pattern
In fish and other animals, the color detecting cone cells in the retina are arranged in specific patterns, and this...
Scientists have found another reason for children to eat their green leafy vegetables
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Oct. 2, 2017) - Scientists have found another reason for children...
Rosbash awarded 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Credit: Scott Eisen/ Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute announced today that Michael Rosbash, a...
New report details innovations in water reuse
Credit: Colorado State University In drought-prone states like California, Colorado and others, every drop of water is precious. A newly...
New Princeton-CUNY program to bring together physicists and biologists
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $13 million to create the Center for the Physics of Biological Function, a...
New UM faculty member lands $1.8 million grant to study intracellular bacteria that infect most insects
Credit: courtesy MISSOULA - A new University of Montana faculty member, Brandon Cooper, recently was awarded a five-year, $1.8 million...
Virginia Tech study finds that healthy bacteria in yogurt may reduce lupus symptoms in mice
Credit: Virginia Tech Researchers at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech have released findings that explain how...
Advancing algae for better biofuels
Credit: AzCATI at Arizona State University Colorado State University scientists are partners in a three-year grant of up to $3.5...
Statement on the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017
Credit: Nobel Media. Ill. N. Elmehed The Nobel Assembly has awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly...
An algorithm that explains how ants create and repair trail networks
Credit: Deborah Gordon Imagine you're a member of the Cephalotes goniodontus species, an arboreal ant with a Darth Vader-like head...
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