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February 8, 2026

Understanding antibiotic resistance

Credit: Cell Reports Chestnut Hill, Mass. (8/15/2017) -- Central to understanding why bacteria become antibiotic resistant is knowing how bacteria...

The key to drought-tolerant crops may be in the leaves

Credit: Xiuwei Liu, Texas A&M University A solution to help farmers to grow crops in dry areas or during stretches...

Precision medicine opens the door to scientific wellness preventive approaches to suicide

Credit: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS - Researchers have developed a more precise way of diagnosing suicide risk, by...

Dr. Sebastian Groh first winner of the Renewable Transformation Challenge

Credit: ME SOLshare Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, and the International Solar Energy Society (ISES),...

Children’s National part of pediatric cancer research collective awarded millions by NIH

Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON - Children's National Health System is a member of a public-private research collective that...

Biophysical Society Announces 2018 Society Fellows

The Biophysical Society is delighted to announce its 2018 Society Fellows. This award honors the Society's distinguished members who have...

Two new beetle genera and 4 new species from the Australopacific in a new monograph

Credit: Birgit Rhodes Amid his ongoing revisionary work on a number of hister beetle genera, the Slovakian-born naturalised Dutch entomologist...

Biophysical Society names 2018 award recipients

The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2018 Society awards. These awards are very competitive in...

Older cancer patients rate own physical abilities as better than their caregivers do

Older cancer patients and their caregivers often differ in their assessment of the patient's physical abilities, with caregivers generally rating...

‘Acidic patch’ regulates access to genetic information

Credit: Courtesy of Nature Chromatin remodelers -- protein machines that pack and unpack chromatin, the tightly wound DNA-protein complex in...

Cancer-fighting T cells are smarter, stronger than experts thought

Credit: Yinnian Feng/Vanderbilt University Scientists studying the body's cancer-fighting T cells have a serious problem: When they culture them in...

New cancer diagnosis may come with risk of thromboembolism

WASHINGTON (Aug. 14, 2017) -- Patients newly diagnosed with cancer may have a substantially increased short-term risk of arterial thromboembolism,...

Clinical trial eligibility criteria a growing obstacle

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Aug. 14, 2017 - Despite a decade-long call for simplification of clinical trials, the number...

Discovery of new prostate cancer biomarkers could improve precision therapy

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a new cause of treatment resistance in prostate cancer. Their discovery also...

Ohio State Cancer researchers validate a clinical test for fusion genes

Columbus, Ohio - An assay that identifies a peculiar but important abnormality in cancer cells has been developed and validated...

From thousands of suspects, Yale researchers ferret out cancer-causing genes

A Yale-led team of researchers has identified specific gene combinations that can cause deadly brain cancer glioblastoma, using new technology...

From cancer evolution to personalized therapies

Lausanne, 14 August 2017 - Being able to predict the resistance or sensitivity of a tumour cell to a drug...

Breast cancer study in India shows how the country can avoid crisis

Credit: University of Portsmouth A new study examining breast cancer awareness in India has found that a lack of early...

Important to communicate cancer prevention message to young adults to reduce risks later in life

Ann Arbor, MI, Aug. 14, 2017 - The latest estimates suggest that, by 2020, more than 1.9 million Americans will...

Neonics put bumblebees at risk of extinction by hindering colony formation, study reveals