Study provides new focus for developing drugs to fight cancer
Credit: Pellecchia lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Cancer researchers and drug companies may have been too quick to ignore a promising line of inquiry...
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Magnetic stimulation may provide more precise, reliable activation of neural circuitry
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have developed what appears to be a significant improvement in the technology behind brain implants used to activate neural circuits...
NASA spots Tropical Cyclone Vardah’s off-center strength
Credit: Credits: NASA/NOAA/Goddard Rapid Response Team NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured an image of Tropical Cyclone Vardah that showed strongest storms expanding west of the...
Research offers clues about the timing of Jupiter’s formation
Credit: Alexander Krot, University of Hawai'i Manoa PROVIDENCE, RI, (Brown University) -- A peculiar class of meteorites has offered scientists new clues about when the...
Why can’t monkeys speak?
Credit: Copyright: Tecumseh Fitch/University of Vienna The scientists used x-ray video to see within the mouth and throat of macaque monkeys induced to vocalize, eat...
Monkey speak: Macaques have the anatomy, not the brain, for human speech
Credit: Image courtesy of Asif Ghazanfar, Princeton Neuroscience Institute Monkeys known as macaques possess the vocal anatomy to produce "clearly intelligible" human speech but lack...
ASHG announces results of 2016 Teen Genes Video Challenge
BETHESDA, MD - The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) is pleased to announce Beryl Zhou and Cindy Xu, students at BASIS Independent Silicon Valley...
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