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April 2, 2026

DNA barcoding technology helping monitor health of all-important boreal forest

The Boreal forest is essential to Canada and the world, storing carbon, purifying water and air and regulating climate. But...

Preeclampsia triggered by an overdose of gene activity

Preeclampsia is the most dangerous form of hypertension during a pregnancy and can be fatal for both mother and child....

WSDS to showcase, propel research, address challenges for women in statistics, data science

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (October 6, 2017) - In an effort to expand opportunities for women who are under-represented in the technical...

Jim Mellon announces launch of new book juvenescence: Investing in the Age of Longevity

Credit: Jim Mellon & Al Chalabi Wednesday, October 4th, 2017, London, UK: Biogerontology Research Foundation Trustee Jim Mellon announces the...

30,000-year old Sungir Homo sapiens visualized for the first time in 3-D virtual reality

Visual Science and the RAS Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, with support from the All-Russian Science Festival "Nauka 0+", have...

Gluten intolerance appears largely undiagnosed in Canada

Research on a large sample of Canadians suggests that most people with celiac disease don't know they have it. Ahmed...

DNA damage caused by cancer treatment reversed by ZATT protein

Credit: Scott Williams An international team led by scientists at the National Institutes of Health is the first to discover...

Imaging agents developed to better monitor growth of tumors

Credit: University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB) UAlberta researchers have created two new imaging agents that could help physicians visualize the...

CRI study challenges long-standing concept in cancer metabolism

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 5, 2017 - Scientists at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern...

DSI professor conducts research to combat pancreatic cancer

Credit: DSI Tal Danino, a professor at the Data Science Institute, is conducting research that could help scientists combat the...

Good-guy bacteria may help cancer immunotherapies do their job

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 5, 2017 - Individuals with certain types of bacteria in their gut may be...

Scientists enlist supercomputers, machine learning to automatically identify brain tumors

Credit: Andreas Mang, Sameer Tharakan, Amir Gholami, Naveen Himthani, Shashank Subramanian, James Levitt, Muneeza Azmat, Klaudius Scheufele, Miriam Mehl, Christos...

New research on sperm stem cells has implications for male infertility and cancer

Credit: Huntsman Cancer Institute SALT LAKE CITY - New research from scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University...

‘Smart’ immune cells: Emerging cancer therapy research boosted with NIH award

Credit: Collins lab, UC Davis Assistant Professor Sean Collins, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in the UC Davis College...

Global burden of disease study focuses on liver cancer

A new article published by JAMA Oncology reports the results of the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study on primary...

Why can’t mTOR inhibitors kill cancer? Study explains

Credit: McGill University and Masahiro Morita, Ph.D. Anti-cancer drugs called mTOR inhibitors slow the growth of cancer cells but show...

Researchers identify genetic drivers of most common form of lymphoma

DURHAM, N.C. -- Lymphoma is the most common blood cancer, but the diagnosis belies a wildly diverse and little understood...

Genomic screening helps doctors target girl’s cancer

Credit: Sarah Pack Victoria Thompson, clutching a bag of salt and vinegar potato chips while she watches the TV show...

Anti-RAS antibodies show poor reliability in recognizing RAS proteins

Researchers from the Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute at UT Health San Antonio co-authored a paper published Sept. 26 in...

Neuro-Oncologist Dr. Howard Fine wins NIH Director’s Pioneer Award