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Rousing masses to fight cancer with open source machine learning
Credit: Georgia Tech / McDonald lab Here's an open invitation to steal. It goes out to cancer fighters and tempts...
$12.5 million grant allows MUSC and SCSU to team up to tackle health disparities
Credit: Sarah Pack Marvella Ford missed out on a fundamental part of childhood: having grandparents to spoil and take care...
Helping smokers quit: Payments, personalized support can work
BOSTON - Money can be more powerful than nicotine, as a new study found that smokers who received financial incentives,...
3-D ‘scaffold’ map to help the search for new cancer treatments
Credit: Image: Onisha Patel/Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Researchers have produced the first three-dimensional (3D) map of a molecular 'scaffold'...
Minorities less likely to have breast reconstruction, but not for the reason many think
PHILADELPHIA - Minority women are far less likely to undergo breast reconstruction than white women, even if they live in...
Important mechanism of epigenetic gene regulation identified
DNA contains the blueprint of an entire organism. Based on the information in this blueprint, every cell knows what it...
LAunch of new Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC) global charter
LISBON, Portugal, 30 October 2017 - The Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC) Global Alliance has launched the ABC Global Charter, a...
Just-in-time 3-D implants set to transform tumor surgery
Credit: RMIT University/Stryker A major new Australian research project using 3D implants and robotic surgery is set to radically advance...
Sight unseen
A study led by scientists from Harvard Medical School reveals "hidden" variability in how tumor cells are affected by anticancer...
Jens Nielsen receive gold medal for innovative research in the field of systems biology
Credit: The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark Chief Scientific Officer at the Novo...
Nanoscale platform aims to control protein levels
Credit: Segatori Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 30, 2017) - A nanoscale antibody first found in camels combined with...
Native trees, shrubs provide more food for birds
Credit: Desiree Narango and Doug Tallamy/University of Delaware University of Delaware doctoral student Desiree Narango is researching trees and shrubs...
Food should be marketed as a ‘meal’ rather than a ‘snack’ to avoid overeating
Marketing food as a 'snack' leads to increased consumption and continued overeating, a new study in the journal Appetite reports....
Cover crops provide bed and breakfast layover for migrating birds
Credit: Cassandra Wilcoxen URBANA, Ill. - After harvesting a corn or soybean crop, farmers may plant a cover crop for...
Genetic study uncovers evolutionary history of dingoes
Credit: Image: Lyn Watson/Australian Dingo Foundation A major study of dingo DNA has revealed dingoes most likely migrated to Australia...
Wait a minute! Clamping the umbilical cord later saves preterm babies’ lives
Thousands of preterm babies could be saved by waiting 60 seconds before clamping the umbilical cord after birth instead of...
Red Sea is warming faster than global average
Credit: Reproduced with permission from reference 1© 2017 Nature Publishing Group "The global rate of ocean warming has many consequences...
Study shows how memories ripple through the brain
Credit: Image courtesy of György Buzsáki, M.D., Ph.D., New York University Using an innovative "NeuroGrid" technology, scientists showed that sleep...
Graphene enables high-speed electronics on flexible materials
Credit: Boid - Product Design Studio, Gothenburg/Chalmers University of Technology Terahertz radiation has a wide range of uses and can...
University of Delaware’s Thomas Epps named American Physical Society Fellow
Credit: Evan Krape/University of Delaware Thomas H. Epps, III, the Thomas & Kipp Gutshall Professor in the Department of Chemical...
