Workshop Advances Pediatric Therapeutic Development for Osteosarcoma
Osteosarcoma, a rare but aggressive bone cancer that most often strikes children and adolescents, is at the center of a new international effort to rethink...
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Zebrafish Toxicology Needs Clearer Links to Real-World Environmental Risks
Zebrafish Could Become the Missing Link Between Laboratory Toxicology and Real-World Environmental Risk Zebrafish, a small freshwater species that has become one of biomedical science’s...
Internationally recognized physician-scientist Charles W.M. Roberts named St. Jude president and CEO
Charles W.M. Roberts Named Next President and CEO of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital The Board of Governors of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has...
Study calls for international rules to protect fish stocks and public health
The world’s fishing crisis may require more than a single global treaty, according to new research from the University of Exeter. A legal analysis of...
SUNY Chancellor King Announces Simons Empire Faculty Fellowship Recipients
State University of New York Chancellor John B. King Jr. has announced the inaugural class of Simons Empire Faculty Fellows, a new research initiative supporting...
MIT engineers link bacteria to build living transistors
MIT researchers have built what may be the closest biological equivalent yet to a printed circuit board: a network of living bacterial colonies that can...
Why 35% of US Employees Remain on the Margins
The American workplace is undergoing a structural transformation that is leaving millions of people employed but increasingly disconnected from long-term careers, according to MIT labor...
Cancer Treatment Saves Lives Without Dangerous Side Effects
CAR T-cell therapy has changed the outlook for people with some of the most aggressive blood cancers, turning a patient’s own immune system into a...
KTU chemists create dual-action compounds targeting cancer and infections
Cancer treatment is rarely limited to the cancer itself. Patients with advanced disease may also develop bacterial or fungal infections, while other medical conditions can...
Dollar Store Groceries May Carry Hidden Health Costs
Dollar Stores May Be Quietly Reshaping America’s Health—One Grocery Aisle at a Time For millions of Americans, dollar stores are more than places to buy...
Uganda’s digital farmer networks boost bargaining power, but gender gaps persist
Farmer groups and digital agricultural networks are helping smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa sell crops, access information and coordinate their economic activities—but a new study suggests...
New evolutionary discoveries prompt scientists to rethink human ancestor names and classifications
Recent discoveries in human evolution are forcing scientists to reconsider one of the most familiar names in biology: Homo. A new study from Monash University...
New platform enables long-lasting, air-stable persistent luminescence in amorphous organic materials
A new study has introduced a platform designed to solve one of the most stubborn problems in organic photoluminescence: creating materials that continue to glow...
Switchable smart gel could enable next-generation drug delivery and sensing technologies
Scientists at the University of Birmingham have created a molecular gel that can be switched between a solid-like state and a flowing, liquid-like state using...
Cannabis Use Associated With Earlier Psychosis Onset
A large international meta-analysis has found that people who use cannabis develop psychosis an average of two and a half years earlier than people who...