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More complications, less satisfaction in breast cancer patients who get radiation, implants
Credit: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- Many breast cancer patients who have a mastectomy will consider...
2017 Brupbacher Cancer Research Prize for Adrian Bird, Guido Kroemer & Laurence Zitvogel
The prize, donated by Frédérique Brupbacher in memory of her husband, Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher, will be awarded for the thirteenth...
EEG reveals information essential to users
Credit: Khalil Klouche In a study conducted by the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) and the Centre of Excellence...
Uncertainties related to climate engineering limit its use in curbing climate change
Climate engineering refers to the systematic, large-scale modification of the environment using various climate intervention techniques. However, a new study...
Researchers building flow battery prototype to augment grid
Credit: Bob Savinell Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are scaling up a prototype iron-flow battery to provide cleaner and...
Scientists can now better diagnose diseases with multiple genetic causes
Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine, Baylor Genetics, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Texas Children's...
UA Steele Children’s Research Center receives $1.73m to study autoimmune disease triggers
Credit: University of Arizona Health Sciences TUCSON, Ariz. - The University of Arizona Steele Children's Research Center has been awarded...
Researchers create hidden images with commercial inkjet printers
Credit: Ajay Nahata, University of Utah WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a way to use commercial inkjet printers and readily...
Jumping water striders know how to avoid breaking of the water surface
Credit: JH Son, PG Jablonski, SI Lee Water striders spend all their life on the surface of water, and the...
Honeybee memories: Another piece of the Alzheimer’s puzzle?
A breakdown of memory processes in humans can lead to conditions such as Alzheimer's and dementia. By looking at the...
Researchers find the incident commander in the brain’s defence system
Credit: Line Reinert Imagine seeing a building on fire. You grab the phone and call the fire service. What happens...
Higher BMI in adolescence may affect cognitive function in midlife
Overweight and obesity in adolescents have increased substantially in recent decades, and today affect a third of the adolescent population...
Every grain of sand: Method efficiently renders massive assemblies of granular materials
Be it sand, snow or a bowl of spices, rendering massive aggregations of granular materials is a challenge for animators....
Island volcano monitoring system tested at Nishinoshima
Credit: Kobe University During the October cruise of KS16-16 (1) a research team with members from the Kobe University Graduate...
UNIST engineers thermoelectric material in paintable liquid form
Credit: UNIST A new study, led by Professor Jae Sung Son of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST has succeeded...
Not free agents? Could human decisions actually be products of deterministic forces?
Credit: World Scientific Decisions are not random. They are a connected network rippling from the past into the future. Is...
Search engines ‘could help young people find best mental health resources’
Search engines and content providers could have a role to play in helping young people find the most reliable mental...
Optical probes overcome light scattering in deep-brain imaging, says Neurophotonics report
Credit: The authors: doi:10.1117/1.NPh.4.1.011002 BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA, and CARDIFF, UK -- The ability to stimulate neural circuits with very high...
Scientists unlock genetic code of diseased lung cells to find new treatments for IPF
CINCINNATI - Researchers cracked the complete genetic code of individual cells in healthy and diseased human lung tissues to find...
Going with the flow: Facile synthesis of a complex biologically active oligopeptide
Credit: Nature Communications The research community and pharmaceutical industry have had a long-standing interest in developing peptide-based therapeutics owing to...
