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Researchers uncover protein-based ‘cancer signature’
Credit: University of Basel, Biozentrum A research team at the University of Basel's Biozentrum has investigated the expression of ribosomal...
CAR T cell immunotherapy continues to yield complete responses in leukemia
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia A highly innovative, personalized cell-based treatment for a high-risk form of the most common childhood...
Triggerfish needed to grow reefs, new research finds
Credit: Courtesy of WCS NEW YORK (November 30, 2016) --A study of complex coral reef ecosystems in the western Indian...
Researchers may have found first polluted river from before Bronze Age
Credit: Barqa Landscape Project/University of Waterloo. Industrial pollution may seem like a modern phenomenon, but in fact, an international team...
NYU researchers identify stress-hormone differences among gay men
Cortisol is a life sustaining adrenal hormone essential to maintaining the natural balance of the body. It is often referred...
Gut microbes contribute to recurrent ‘yo-yo’ obesity
Credit: Nature Following a successful diet, many people are dismayed to find their weight rebounding - an all-too-common phenomenon termed...
Geneticist Stephen J. Elledge wins Breakthrough Prize
Stephen J. Elledge, the Gregor Mendel Professor of Genetics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, has been...
Exploring how rice could survive salt stress
Credit: © 2016 KAUST Rice is a staple for more than half of the world's population, yet it is also...
The promise of greener power generation
Credit: © 2016 KAUST Modeling the combustion of fossil fuels by KAUST researchers has helped to characterize some of the...
A traditional Japanese art inspires a futuristic innovation: Brain ‘organoids’
Credit: UBC The ancient Japanese art of flower arranging was the inspiration for a groundbreaking technique to create tiny "artificial...
Stereochemistry: Self-amplifying selectivity
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich chemist Oliver Trapp has designed and synthesized a catalyst which flexibly molds the handedness of the...
Hubble spotlight on irregular galaxy IC 3583
Credit: Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA This delicate blue group of stars -- actually an irregular galaxy named IC 3583 --...
AACR recognizes Fergus Couch and Max Wicha for contributions to breast cancer reseach
SAN ANTONIO -- The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) will honor two renowned researchers for their work in breast...
Mount Sinai Health System researchers present influential research at ASH 2016
(San Diego, CA - December 1, 2016) - Physicians and researchers from Mount Sinai Health System are presenting influential research...
Research uses mobile technology to help people quit smoking
What if a smartphone app could help you avoid relapsing back to smoking even before you knew you were at...
New method improves stability, extends shelf life of protein drugs
Credit: University of Notre Dame Gaining access to important biopharmaceuticals needed to treat illnesses and autoimmune diseases is one of...
New tool uses UV light to control inflammation
Black light does more than make posters glow. Cornell researchers have developed a chemical tool to control inflammation that is...
Tunneling holds key to high-speed modulation of transistor and laser development
Credit: University of Illinois In 2004, electrical engineering pioneers Nick Holonyak, Jr. and Milton Feng at the University of Illinois...
Fast, efficient sperm tails inspire nanobiotechnology
Credit: Cornell University Just like workers in a factory, enzymes can create a final product more efficiently if they are...
Penn Medicine team to present findings of personalized cellular therapies at ASH Meeting
PHILADELPHIA - Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia...
