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Threading the RSV vaccine needle
Credit: Stobart et al Nature Communications (2016). Crafting a vaccine against RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) has been a minefield for...
Novel technique helps ID elusive molecules
Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University Among the most important molecules in the living world are sugars or...
‘Glue’ that makes plant cell walls strong could hold the key to wooden skyscrapers
Molecules 10,000 times narrower than the width of a human hair could hold the key to making possible wooden skyscrapers...
Heart valves strive to get oxygen one way or another
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 20, 2016) - As the valves in a heart stretch with each beat,...
New material with ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism may lead to better computer memory
Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology Traditional computer memory, known as DRAM, uses electric fields to store information. In DRAM, the...
The evolutionary secret of H. pylori to survive in the stomach
Professor Frédéric Veyrier's most recent research, in collaboration with the team of Professor Hilde De Reuse at the Institut Pasteur,...
Arctic Inuit, Native American cold adaptations may originate from extinct hominids
In the Arctic, the Inuits have adapted to severe cold and a predominantly seafood diet. After the first population genomic...
Magnifying time reveals fundamental rogue wave instabilities of nature
Credit: Benjamin Wetzel Researchers from INRS and the FEMTO-ST Institute in France have used a novel measurement technique that magnifies...
Avalanche statistics suggest Tabby’s star is near a continuous phase transition
In its search for extrasolar planets, the Kepler space telescope looks for stars whose light flux periodically dims, signaling the...
Bright future for energy devices
Credit: Yun Hang Hu, Michigan Tech A little sodium goes a long way. At least that's the case in carbon-based...
Illuminating cancer: Researchers invent a pH threshold sensor to improve cancer surgery
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Dec. 20, 2016 - UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have invented a transistor-like threshold sensor...
First US babies treated in study of adult stem cell therapy for congenital heart disease
Baltimore, MD - Dec. 20, 2016 - In a first-in-children randomized clinical study, medical researchers at the University of Maryland...
Study identifies gastric cancer biomarker and possible treatment
Scientists at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center...
Dynamic changes, regulatory rewiring occur as Tcells respond to infection
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Scientists have used systems biology tools to map out molecular pathways and signaling circuits that...
Studies lead to use of melanin as material for bioelectronic devices
Bioelectronics, sometimes called the next medical frontier, is a research field that combines electronics and biology to develop miniaturized implantable...
New test could detect ovarian cancer patients who are strongly responding to treatment
Scientists might be able to quickly predict how ovarian cancer patients are likely to respond to chemotherapy treatment using a...
‘Watershed’ discovery reveals plants’ medicinal secrets
EAST LANSING, Mich. - Metabolons, near-mythical clusters of enzymes, have been discovered for the first time. Using fluorescent tags and...
Levels of DNA in blood test correlated with ovarian cancer outcomes
Levels of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) detected in a blood test are correlated with the size of ovarian cancers and...
Cancer genomics: Addressing treatment resistance in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia
In the third week of PLOS Medicine's ongoing special issue on cancer genomics, principal investigator Jules Meijerink of the Princess...
Computer models find ancient solutions to modern problems
Credit: Nate Crabtree PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University archaeologists are at the helm of new research using sophisticated computer...
