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Old enzyme, new role
Credit: Evan Krape/University of Delaware A team of researchers at the University of Delaware has discovered a new function for...
Micro-bubbles and frequency combs
Credit: OIST's Light Matter Interactions Unit When measuring the duration of high-speed physical phenomena, a good stopwatch can only get...
Anticancer properties of mono/di-halogenated coumarins
Credit: Dr. Kabange Kasumbwe et al., Bentham Science Publishers Throughout the world, many medicinal compounds are being discovered. Scientists have...
Deciphering the emergence of neuronal diversity
Credit: © Dayerlab UNIGE. The development of cerebral cortex plays a major role in the evolution of species and in...
Engineers create artificial skin that ‘feels’ temperature changes
A team of engineers and scientists at Caltech and ETH Zurich have developed an artificial skin capable of detecting temperature...
Some early breast cancer patients benefit more from breast conservation than from mastectomy
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Breast conserving therapy (BCT, breast conserving surgery combined with radiation therapy) is superior to mastectomy in certain...
Diabetes or its rapid deterioration can be an early warning sign for pancreatic cancer
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Patients and their doctors should be aware that the onset of diabetes, or a rapid deterioration in...
Liverpool to coordinate £14m drug safety research project
The University of Liverpool (UK) is to co-ordinate a new £14m European research project which aims to improve the understanding...
Breath test could help detect stomach and oesophageal cancers
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: A test that measures the levels of five chemicals in the breath has shown promising results for...
Experts predict melanoma death rates will fall by 2050
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: By 2050 the death rates from malignant melanoma will have decreased from their current levels but the...
The immunotherapy, pembrolizumab, is active against mucosal melanoma tumors
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Clinical trials of a new immunotherapy, pembrolizumab, have shown that it prolongs life significantly for patients with...
Delays in access to cancer medicines and unjustifiable price rises disadvantage patients
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Cancer patients are living longer and in many cases the disease is becoming chronic rather than acute....
Researchers explore how protein production gets distorted in skin cancer
Credit: Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology at The Rockefeller University/Nature Each cell in the body follows a strict protocol for...
Evaluating the benefits of health insurance on cancer care
Credit: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Jan, 27, 2017, Lebanon, N.H. -- Millions of Americans acquire their health insurance under the Affordable...
Researchers help the body protect itself against inflammation and colon cancer
Credit: Michael Sutphin Could inflammatory bowel disease and colon cancer be prevented by changing the shape of a single protein?...
Mount Sinai study: How primary tumor cells are preset for dormancy and evade chemo after spread
In a first of its kind study, Mount Sinai researchers have discovered the conditions by which specific signals in primary...
NASA sees development of Tropical Cyclone 3S along Western Australia’s coast
Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce A NASA satellite provided a look at heavy rainfall occurring in a tropical...
Climate changes may lead to more poisonous mercury in plankton
(Umea University) Global warming is expected to increase runoff and input of organic matter to aquatic ecosystems in large regions...
Clue to how cancer cells spread
New Haven, Conn.-- In a second human case, a Yale-led research team has found that a melanoma cell and a...
Toxic mercury in aquatic life could spike with greater land runoff
Credit: Sofi Jonsson A highly toxic form of mercury could jump by 300 to 600 percent in zooplankton -- tiny...
