Cancer stem cells are fueled through dialogue with their environments
What drives tumor growth? Is it a few rogue cells imposing their will upon healthy tissue, or diseased tissue bringing out the worst in otherwise...
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Single-cell ‘atlas’ reveals origin of an aggressive brain tumor
Studying mice has filled encyclopedias with breakthrough medical discoveries. But when it comes to brain cancers, the little rodents have long exhibited fundamental limitations.Credit: Cincinnati...
Case Western Reserve University researchers developing treatment for drug-resistant fungus with $3M-plus grant from National Institutes of Health
CLEVELAND–With a new $3 million-plus grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Case Western Reserve University researchers are examining the next level of treatment...
Going green in operating rooms reduces cost and improves environmental impact
CHICAGO (November 30, 2022): Operating room (OR) personnel who rethink how they deliver surgical care to focus more on sustainability interventions could substantially reduce hospital...
Research reveals how a potentially fatal COVID-19 complication damages lung tissue
Mechanisms involved in the rapid, severe progression of fibrosis in the lung tissues of COVID-19 patients, a potentially fatal complication of the virus that damages...
Small asteroids are probably young
Credit: © Courtesy of Martin Jutzi The Hayabusa2 spacecraft was developed in order to study the history of the asteroid Ryugu, and collected samples...
Fossil overturns more than a century of knowledge about the origin of modern birds
Fossilised fragments of a skeleton, hidden within a rock the size of a grapefruit, have helped upend one of the longest-standing assumptions about the origins...
Rare sighting of luminous jet spewed by supermassive black hole
What happens when a dying star flies too close to a supermassive black hole?Credit: Carl Knox – OzGrav, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave...
UC finds mammoth problem with extinction timeline
Precisely when mammoths went extinct has fascinated paleontologists for generations, perhaps because their decline coincided with the arrival of people to North and South America.Credit:...
NIH funds trial giving AI-powered digital tools to clinicians treating teens for anorexia
LAWRENCE — Called a “pandemic within a pandemic,” the prevalence of anorexia nervosa (AN) among young people has spiked during COVID-19. According to research, in-patient...
A new chair in quantum communication in Geneva
Building bridges between research, incubation, industry and teaching: this is the purpose of the new chair in quantum communication created in Geneva and headed by...
Ancient DNA from medieval Germany tells the origin story of Ashkenazi Jews
Extracting ancient DNA from teeth, an international group of scientists peered into the lives of a once-thriving medieval Ashkenazi Jewish community in Erfurt, Germany. The...
Ant pupae secrete fluid as “milk” to nurture young larvae
Life in an ant colony is a symphony of subtle interactions between insects acting in concert, more like cells in tissue than independent organisms bunking...
Physicists observe wormhole dynamics using a quantum computer
**A media zoom/Q&A for this news item is being held at 8am Pacific/ 11am Eastern Time tomorrow, Nov. 30. Several of the study authors will...
NTU Singapore and Imperial College London strengthen ties with new strategic partnership in research, education, innovation and enterprise
Building on their successful collaboration in setting up the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Imperial College...
