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Penn experts call for expansion of molecular imaging in precision cancer care
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - New molecular imaging technologies can make it easier to diagnose, monitor, and treat cancers while...
New tool shines light on protein condensation in living cells
Credit: Princeton University A tool that uses light to manipulate matter inside living cells has begun to explain how proteins...
Off-switch for CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system discovered
UC San Francisco researchers have discovered a way to switch off the widely used CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system using newly identified...
Scripps Florida scientists develop drug discovery approach to predict health impact of endocrine-disruptors
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, FL - December 29, 2016 - Breast cancer researchers from the Florida campus of...
Genes and the environment equally affect language-related brain activity
Credit: Osaka University Osaka University-led researchers examine brain activity in monozygotic and dizygotic Japanese twins and show that environmental and...
Hubble gazes at a cosmic megamaser
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (geckzilla) This galaxy has a far more exciting and futuristic classification than most...
Biomarker tests in breast cancer: Decision on chemotherapy remains difficult
The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) investigated the benefit of biomarker tests to support the...
Gene therapy to prevent vision loss: Studies in primates needed to optimize human trials
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 29, 2016--Many gene therapy-based approaches are in development to combat...
Omega-3 supplements can prevent childhood asthma
Credit: Light Imaging Taking certain omega-3 fatty acid supplements during pregnancy can reduce the risk of childhood asthma by almost...
A parallel hybrid controller based on the backstepping method
The semi-pelagic trawl is a relatively advanced trawl system which is mainly adopted to catch demersal fish such as squid...
Diamonds are technologists’ best friends
Credit: Alexander Obraztsov Physicists from the Lomonosov Moscow State University have obtained diamond crystals in the form of a regular...
Coping with arthritis: What you do isn’t associated with how much information you want
Chapel Hill, NC - Arthritis patients were more likely to be high monitors (health detail oriented) than high blunters (health...
Possible treatment targets found for pre-malignant bone marrow disorders
CINCINNATI - Cincinnati Children's researchers report in Nature Immunology a new mechanism that controls blood cell function and several possible...
Millions of tons of food could be saved with better logistics
Credit: Caroline Örmgård Each year, around 88 million tonnes of food is discarded in the EU. This is something that...
Researchers fabricate high performance Cu(OH)2 supercapacitor electrodes
Credit: NANO Copper based nano structures have gained much attention in today's modern devices. A team of Nano-fabricated Energy Devices...
Researchers produced nitrogen doped bimodal cellular structure activated carbon
Cellular activated carbon, a new type of activated carbon we prepared, is based on carbon foams, the inner surfaces of...
Responsive filtration membranes by polymer self-assembly
Credit: TECHNOLOGY A team of researchers from Tufts University in Medford, MA have put together a review article, which discusses...
Image-based modeling
Credit: TECHNOLOGY A team of researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark, NJ in collaboration with...
Early-phase trial demonstrates shrinkage in pediatric neural tumors
In an early-phase clinical trial of a new oral drug, selumetinib, children with the common genetic disorder neurofibromatosis type 1...
For welders, Parkinson-like symptoms get worse with exposure
MINNEAPOLIS - Welders can develop Parkinson's disease-like symptoms that may get worse the longer and more they are exposed to...
