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Diving with the sharks
Credit: Darcy Bradley Swimming with metaphorical sharks is one thing, but actually getting into the water with the razor-toothed ocean...
WSU researcher finds mechanism triggering spread of prostate cancer to bones
SPOKANE, Wash.--A Washington State University researcher has found a way that prostate cancer cells hijack the body's bone maintenance, facilitating...
1 in 5 breast cancer patients could benefit from existing treatment, genetic study reveals
Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators have discovered that a greater number of breast cancers are...
A multidrug efflux pump in motion
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have mapped the conformational changes that occur in a protein "notorious" for pumping chemotherapeutic...
The looming threat of Asian tobacco companies to global health
There are already one billion tobacco smokers worldwide, and this number is likely to rise further with Asian tobacco companies...
Light scattering spectroscopy helps doctors identify early pancreatic cancer
New light-scattering tool offers minimally-invasive, highly accurate means of identifying pre-cancerous and cancerous pancreatic lesions. Currently, no diagnostic technique exists...
NYU chemists color world of 3-D crystals with advances in self-assembly
A team of New York University chemists has created self-assembled, three-dimensional DNA crystals that can bind a separate, dye-bearing strand--a...
Ultrashort light pulses for fast ‘lightwave’ computers
ANN ARBOR--Extremely short, configurable "femtosecond" pulses of light demonstrated by an international team could lead to future computers that run...
Atomic map gives malaria drug new lease on life
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Researchers have for the first time mapped how one of the...
Underwater vehicle design inspired by schools of fish
Credit: Christa Neu, Lehigh University Communications + Public Affairs It is easy to speculate why fish might swim in schools...
A kiss of death to drug the ‘undruggable’
Credit: Xavier Lucas, Alessio Ciulli, University of Dundee Scientists at the University of Dundee have reported a major breakthrough in...
Pre-existing immunity to dengue virus shapes Zika-specific T cell response
Credit: Courtesy of La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology LA JOLLA, CA -- Although Zika and dengue are considered...
Spin-resolved oscilloscope for charge and spin signals
Credit: Masayuki Hashisaka Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation have developed a "spin-resolved...
Looming crisis of the much decreased fresh-water supply to Egypt’s Nile delta
Credit: Jean-Daniel Stanley and Pablo L. Clemente and GSA Today. Boulder, Colorado, USA: A multi-year study of Egypt's Nile Delta...
Legitimacy of reusing images from scientific papers addressed
Credit: C. Clerck (1757) (left) and M. Roberts (1985) (right) It goes without saying that scientific research has to build...
Research partnership to transform Mexico’s hydrocarbon sector
Credit: University of Alberta When Mexico introduced sweeping energy reforms in 2014 that ended 75 years of the state's oil...
Professor, researcher in brain machine interfaces to speak at Louisiana Tech
RUSTON, La. - Louisiana Tech University's Center for Biomedical Engineering and Rehabilitation Science (CBERS) and its Consortium on Neuronal Networks...
Dan Sinars represents Sandia in first energy leadership class
Credit: (Photo by Randy Montoya) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Dan Sinars, a senior manager in Sandia National Laboratories' pulsed power center,...
Simultaneous detection of multiple spin states in a single quantum dot
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - Quantum dots are very small particles that exhibit luminescence and electronic properties different from...
Making resistant superbugs sensitive to antibiotics
Credit: none New research is paving the way for the development of innovative drugs that restore antibiotic susceptibility in antibiotic-resistant...
