The birth and death of a tectonic plate
Credit: Dave O'Gorman Several hundred miles off the Pacific Northwest coast, a small tectonic plate called the Juan de Fuca is slowly sliding under the...
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New brain mapping tool produces higher resolution data during brain surgery
Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Researchers have developed a new device to map the brain during surgery and distinguish between healthy...
A CLOUD of possibilities: Finding new therapies by combining drugs
Credit: © Nature Chemical Biology / Stefan Kubicek (Vienna, May 22, 2017) Two drugs taken together can sometimes lead to outcomes that largely deviate from...
Tracking cancer’s signaling pathways
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Study offers guidance for targeting residual ovarian tumors
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Most women diagnosed with ovarian cancer undergo surgery to remove as many of the tumors as possible. However, it is usually impossible...
BU researcher receives entrepreneur award from the American Thoracic Society
(Boston) -- Avrum Spira, MD, MSc, professor of medicine, pathology and bioinformatics at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), is the inaugural recipient of the...
Printed, flexible and rechargeable battery can power wearable sensors
Credit: Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed the first printed battery that is flexible, stretchable...
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