New strategy may drop cancer’s guard
Credit: Carson Lab/Rice University HOUSTON - (Nov. 30, 2016) - A drug used now to treat Type 2 diabetes may someday help beat breast and...
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Intensification of land use leads to the same species everywhere
Credit: Photo: Lars Skipper In places where humans use grasslands more intensively, it is not only the species diversity which decreases -- the landscape also...
Permafrost loss changes Yukon River chemistry with global implications
Loading video... Credit: Ryan Toohey, USGS ANCHORAGE -- Permafrost loss due to a rapidly warming Alaska is leading to significant changes in the freshwater chemistry...
The economy of cold soil blues
Credit: Photo provided by Daniel Kaiser. Corn farmers in Minnesota and across the northern Corn Belt often must plant in cold, damp spring soils that...
Penn scientists use CRISPR for first time to correct clotting in newborn and adult mice
(PHILADELPHIA) - CRISPR/Cas9, a powerful genome editing tool, is showing promise for efficient correction of disease-causing mutations. For the first time, researchers from the Perelman...
Princeton-led team finds new method to improve predictions
Researchers at Princeton, Columbia and Harvard have created a new method to analyze big data that better predicts outcomes in health care, politics and other...
Acupuncture improved mastectomy recovery in Abbott Northwestern Hospital study
MINNEAPOLIS - (Nov.30, 2016) - Women who had acupuncture treatments after breast cancer surgery at Abbott Northwestern Hospital had a greater reduction in pain, nausea,...
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