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Frequent sauna bathing protects men against dementia
Frequent sauna bathing can reduce the risk of dementia, according to a recent study carried out at the University of...
What makes influential science? Telling a good story
It turns out that even in the world of scientific writing, your eighth-grade teacher was right: how you write can...
Early action key to reducing sea lion impacts on salmon, new study finds
Credit: US Army Corps of Engineers A new study used the same kind of models that scientists use to track...
Dr. Sakamoto explains signaling pathways in the pathogenesis of diamond blackfan anemia
Credit: Stanford University Diamond Blackfan Anemia (DBA) is a condition that is characterized by a failure of the bone marrow...
First data on rare sarcomas in Asian patients presented at ESMO Asia in Singapore
LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 17 December, 2016 - The first data on rare sarcomas in Asian patients is presented in three studies today...
NRG-LU001 reaches patient accrual goal
Philadelphia, PA -- NRG Oncology clinical trial NRG-LU001 successfully reached its accrual goal of 168 patients. NRG-LU001: Randomized Phase II...
AMP issues joint guideline to standardize interpretation and reporting of sequence variants in cancer
BETHESDA, MD. -- December 16, 2016 -- The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), the premier global, non-profit molecular diagnostics professional...
Fundamental solid state phenomenon unraveled
Credit: Dr. Ulrich Tutsch Whether water freezes to ice, iron is demagnetized or a material becomes superconducting - for physicists...
Method enables machine learning from unwieldy data sets
When data sets get too big, sometimes the only way to do anything useful with them is to extract much...
Rice, Baylor team sets new mark for ‘deep learning’
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 16, 2016) - Neuroscience and artificial intelligence experts from Rice University and Baylor...
New bioinformatics tool tests methods for finding mutant genes that ‘drive’ cancer
In their search for new ways to treat cancer, many scientists are using a high-tech process called genome sequencing to...
Quantifying radiation damage in SAXS experiments
Credit: Brooks-Bartlett et al Biological small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) is an experimental technique that provides low-resolution structural information on macromolecules....
Ultrafast lasers reveal light-harvesting secrets of photosynthetic algae
Credit: Desmond Toa Photosynthetic algae have been refining their technique for capturing light for millions of years. As a result,...
COPD — what causes the lungs to lose their ability to heal?
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the patients' lungs lose...
NIST device for detecting subatomic-scale motion may aid robotics, homeland security
Credit: Brian Roxworthy/NIST Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new device that measures...
Penn study finds link between HIV treatment and neuronal degeneration
Antiretroviral drugs have been life-changing therapies for HIV patients, but they can have significant side effects. Mounting evidence has implicated...
Tuberculosis virulence factor identified, may be target for new drug
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Scientists have discovered the mechanism that hijacks the immune system's response to tuberculosis, revealing an important...
Scientists boost catalytic activity for key chemical reaction in fuel cells
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Fuel cells are a promising technology for clean and efficient electrical power generation, but their...
World’s smallest radio receiver has building blocks the size of 2 atoms
Loading video... Credit: Harvard SEAS Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have made...
Research in worms provides a model to study how the human microbiome influences disease
December 13, 2016/Novato, California: The billions of microorganisms living within the human digestive tract appear to play a significant role...
