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Exposure to environmental chemicals is an important risk factor for breast cancer
Newton, Mass. (Oct. 10, 2017) - Exposure to environmental chemicals, especially early in life, is an important contributing factor in...
BU researcher receives grant to better understand lymphoblastic leukemia
(Boston)--Hui Feng, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology and medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), is the recipient...
Moffitt researchers discover new targets for approved cancer drug
TAMPA, Fla. (Oct. 10, 2017) - Developing new drugs to treat cancer can be a painstaking process taking over a...
International experts describe a new way of cells behaving when submitted to chemotherapy
(University of Seville) The experts indicate a new way via which cells can respond to chemotherapy. This knowledge has to...
In global first, Penn using glowing tumor dye to identify cancerous lymph nodes
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Surgeons at Penn Medicine are using a fluorescent dye that makes cancerous cells glow in...
Areas of glioblastoma tumors correlate with separate subtypes of glioma stem cells
CLEVELAND -- A new study published in the Oct. 9 issue of the journal Nature Medicine demonstrates, for the first...
P53 ‘master switch’ remains top target in gene signaling network controlling cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center There are two important categories of genes involved in cancer development, oncogenes and tumor...
RIT to develop hybrid biological cell separations technology for lab-on-chip devices
Research being done at Rochester Institute of Technology to refine lab-on-chip devices--highly sophisticated laboratories on microchips--will provide more detailed and...
Major breakthrough identifies new mechanism for the development of schizophrenia
Credit: Dr Matthew Campbell, Trinity College Dublin. Scientists from Trinity College Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland...
Parasite study paves way for therapies to tackle deadly infections
Fresh insight into how a harmful parasite harnesses the energy it needs to function could point towards therapies to prevent...
Raging Bull: First study to find link between testosterone and stock market instability
Key Takeaway: Increasing testosterone levels in men, who make up the majority of professional stock market traders, causes them to...
‘Fake fin’ discovery reveals new ichthyosaur species
Credit: (c) National Museum of Wales - Dean R. Lomax.jpg An ichthyosaur first discovered in the 1970s but then dismissed...
A new genetic marker accounts for up to 1.4 percent of cases of hereditary colon cancer
Credit: IDIBELL Researchers from the Hereditary Cancer group of the Oncobell Program of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) -...
Flexible sensors can detect movement in GI tract
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers CAMBRIDGE, MA - Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have built a flexible...
Size doesn’t matter — at least for hammerheads and swimming performance
Credit: Florida Atlantic University Sharks come in all shapes and sizes and perhaps the most unusual is the hammerhead shark,...
Machine learning translates ‘hidden’ information to reveal chemistry in action
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Chemistry is a complex dance of atoms. Subtle shifts in position and shuffles of electrons...
Giant bacteria make algae easy to stomach
Credit: © 2017 Till Rothig and Anna Roik Red Sea surgeonfish use metabolically diverse giant bacteria to digest different types...
How to ‘cook’ an egg without heat — and other weird egg science (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 2017 -- You can learn a lot from eggs. The versatile, delicious,...
Pest resistance to biotech crops surging
Credit: Alex Yelich/University of Arizona In 2016, farmers worldwide planted more than 240 million acres (98 million hectares) of genetically...
$900K NSF grant helps Wake Forest researchers look for the big picture in big data
Credit: WFU / Ken Bennett Ever put an unripe avocado into a bag with a banana to make it guacamole-ready?...
