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An officer and a gentlewoman from the Viking army in Birka
Credit: The illustration is made by Þórhallur Þráinsson (© Neil Price). War was not an activity exclusive to males in...
A-MUD: A method for automatically detecting mouse song
Credit: Vetmeduni Vienna Mice, like birds, are natural born singers. From birth, they emit a wide repertoire of vocalizations especially...
UA-invented sunscreen protects skin without seeping in
Credit: University of Arizona The University of Arizona has licensed a new, non-penetrating sunscreen to MexiAloe Laboratories, S.A. de C.V.,...
U of U Health and Janssen Research & Development investigate genetics of suicide
Credit: CDC Data and Statistics Fatal Injury Report 2015 and University of Utah Health Even today, suicide is a taboo...
Meeting a microbe in the morning or in the evening: Is it all the same?
Does the time of day matter when our body is infected by a parasite? According to new research from McGill...
2017 Science in Society Awards winners announced
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Science in Society Journalism Awards, sponsored by the National Association...
Alcohol industry misleading the public about alcohol-related cancer risk
Led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine with the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, the team analysed the information...
ISEEC 2017: International Society For Evolution, Ecology and Cancer Conference
Can we target cancer's evolutionary and ecological nature? Many biological systems are resilient to shocks, having the ability to return...
From bed to bench and back to bed: Mimicking how HPV-positive cancer responds to treatment
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina, courtesy of Dr. Besim Ogretmen Patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma who...
Human papillomavirus 16 infections may pose variable cancer risk
Human papillomavirus 16 accounts for about half of all cervical cancers, but researchers reporting September 7 in the journal Cell...
Immunotherapy combination safe and 62 percent effective in metastatic melanoma patients
Immunotherapy is a promising approach in the treatment of metastatic melanoma, an aggressive and deadly form of skin cancer; but...
Cancer immunotherapy may get a boost by disabling specific T cells
New York, NY (September 7, 2017)--Cancer immunotherapy drugs only work for a minority of patients, but a generic drug now...
UTA researchers discover connection between low oxygen levels and a human gene
University of Texas at Arlington researchers have established a link between hypoxia, a condition that reduces the flow of oxygen...
Trigger for fatty liver in obesity
Credit: UZH In Switzerland, about every tenth adult suffers from morbid obesity. Such corpulence can not only lead to diabetes...
Double targeting ligands to identify and treat prostate cancer
Credit: JM Kelly et al., Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY RESTON, Va. - Researchers have demonstrated...
Researchers point way to improved stem cell transplantation therapies
Credit: Kollek et al., 2017 Researchers in Germany have demonstrated that hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplants can be improved by...
A tiny device offers insights to how cancer spreads
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- As cancer grows, it evolves. Individual cells become more aggressive and break away...
Report: Whole grains decrease colorectal cancer risk, processed meats increase the risk
WASHINGTON, DC -- Eating whole grains daily, such as brown rice or whole-wheat bread, reduces colorectal cancer risk, with the...
Helping cancer survivors return to work
A new Psycho-Oncology analysis of published studies indicates that there are various employer-related factors that can help or hinder cancer...
Link established between a molecular driver of melanoma & novel therapeutic agent
PHILADELPHIA -- (Sept. 7, 2017) -- Results of a study by The Wistar Institute have described a correlation between a...
