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Consumption of grilled meat linked to higher mortality risk among breast cancer survivors
Findings published in JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute indicate that higher consumption of grilled, barbecued, and smoked meat...
Research sheds new light on high-altitude settlement in Tibet
Humans likely established permanent settlements on the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau between 13,000-7,400 years ago, according to new research published this...
Using fat to help wounds heal without scars
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Doctors have found a way to manipulate wounds to heal as regenerated skin rather than...
Measuring trees with the speed of sound
Credit: Javier O. Ballesteros and Gregory S. Gilbert. From Gilbert, Gregory S., Javier O. Ballesteros, Cesar A. Barrios-Rodriguez, Ernesto F....
Arctic sea ice loss impacts beluga whale migration
Credit: Kate Stafford/University of Washington The annual migration of some beluga whales in Alaska is altered by sea ice changes...
Scientists use light to control the logic networks of a cell
Proteins are the workhorse molecules of life. Among their many jobs, they carry oxygen, build tissue, copy DNA for the...
Anemia protects African children against malaria
Credit: Carla Cerami Chapel Hill, NC - Iron deficiency is the most common nutritional deficiency in the world and causes...
Research helps explain why androgen-deprivation therapy doesn’t work for many prostate cancers
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Metastatic prostate cancer, or prostate cancer that has spread to other organs, is incurable. In new research...
Scaling up marine conservation targets should benefit millions of people
Credit: Flickr user, pauljill About 200 countries worldwide committed to protecting 10% of national marine areas by signing the Convention...
South American fossil tomatillos show nightshades evolved earlier than thought
Credit: Peter Wilf, Penn State Delicate fossil remains of tomatillos found in Patagonia, Argentina, show that this branch of the...
Julio Ottino awarded top national academy prize for innovative education
Credit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. --- Julio M. Ottino, dean of the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University, has...
Researcher turns ‘SARS mask’ into a virus killer
Credit: UAlberta.ca (Edmonton) A University of Alberta engineering researcher has developed a new way to treat common surgical masks so...
Density functional theory took a wrong turn recently
Credit: Ivan S. Bushmarinov The paper explores in detail the intricate relationship between the results of the quantum-chemical calculations and...
A flexible transistor that conforms to skin
Credit: J. Xu et al., Science (2016) Researchers have created a stretchy transistor that can be elongated to twice its...
Deepest X-ray image ever reveals black hole treasure trove
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/B. Luo et al An unparalleled image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is giving an international team...
When being extra sweet doesn’t pay off
A new study reveals how competitiveness among bats, as well as relative perceptions of sweetness when tasting nectar, shape the...
Stanford study shows development of face recognition entails brain tissue growth
Credit: Brianna Jeska People are born with brains riddled with excess neural connections. Those are slowly pruned back until early...
Cancers evade immunotherapy by ‘discarding the evidence’ of tumor-specific mutations
Results of an initial study of tumors from patients with lung cancer or head and neck cancer suggest that the...
Vaginal microbes point toward early detection and screening for endometrial cancer
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Endometrial cancer triggers remain elusive, despite continued research. But given the typical inflammatory profile in these cases,...
Immune cell therapy shows promising results for lymphoma patients
TAMPA, Fla. - Lymphoma is the most common blood cancer. The disease occurs when immune cells called lymphocytes multiply uncontrollably....
