From rain to flood
Helmholtz research centers start measurement campaign on hydrological extremesCredit: Dr. Andreas Wieser, KIT Extreme weather events, such as thunderstorms or heavy rainfall and the resulting...
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NASA’s Fermi mission reveals its highest-energy gamma-ray bursts
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center For 10 years, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has scanned the sky for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the universe's most...
The power of a love song: Dopamine affects seasonal hearing in fish and facilitates mating
Credit: Gabriel Ng, UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory NEW YORK, June 13, 2019 - Many people associate dopamine with reward or attention. Some might think...
Sensing food textures is a matter of pressure
Credit: Nicole Etter / Penn State Food's texture affects whether it is eaten, liked or rejected, according to Penn State researchers, who say some people...
Determining risk of recurrence in triple-negative breast cancer
Credit: Huntsman Cancer Institute SALT LAKE CITY - A personalized prognosis for patients diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer was the goal of a new study...
New insight could improve maternal vaccines that also protect newborns
Understanding how a mother's antibodies are passed to the fetus is key to vaccine design DURHAM, N.C. - A team led by Duke Health scientists...
Research shows temperature, glyphosate increase probability for dicamba volatility
Both factors found to be contributors in dicamba movementCredit: Ginger Rowsey KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Higher temperatures and mixing glyphosate with dicamba lead to increased atmospheric...
Polycomb protein EED plays a starring role in hippocampal development
Credit: Liu Changmei The dentate gyrus (DG) is the input region of the hippocampus and plays an important role in learning and memory. Although emerging...
Carboplatin & paclitaxel chemotherapy alone should remain standard treatment for endometrial cancer
NRG oncology trial reaffirms carboplatin and paclitaxel chemotherapy alone should remain standard treatment for endometrial cancer The New England Journal of Medicine recently published the...
Lowering cholesterol is not enough to reduce hyperactivity of the immune system
Hypercholesterolemia is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Statins are the most widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs. However, despite treatment with statins, many patients with...
Antibody treatment allows transplant of mismatched stem cells, tissues in mice
A combination of six antibodies can successfully prepare mice to accept blood and immune stem cells from an immunologically mismatched donor, according to a study...
Rheumatoid arthritic pain could be caused by antibodies
Antibodies that exist in the joints before the onset of rheumatoid arthritis can cause pain even in the absence of arthritis, researchers from Karolinska Institutet...
Special fibroblasts help pancreatic cancer cells evade immune detection
Credit: Tuveson lab/CSHL 2019 Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the world. Mostly...
Cardiac toxicity risk factors identified with relapsed multiple myeloma therapy
More than half of patients with relapsed multiple myeloma treated with carfilzomib experienced cardiac issues during treatment, according to a multi-institutional study published June 12...
Common conditions keep many patients out of knee cartilage research studies
Some of the most common traits among patients with cartilage issues in the knee are excluding them from participating in clinical trials because the trial...
