Scientists find a new use for already known anti-cancer drugs
Researchers from Nizhny Novgorod and Ghent have proposed new approaches to enhancing the efficacy of cancer therapy and preventing the development of new tumors in...
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Researchers identify starting point for designing drugs that cure clostridium difficile
Scientists combined multiple advanced molecular imaging techniques to characterize and understand how C. diff toxins workCredit: Xingjian Xu and Edwin Pozharski Clostridium Difficile (C. diff)...
BP looks to ORNL, ADIOS to help rein in data
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Researchers across the scientific spectrum crave data, as it is essential to understanding the natural world and, by extension, accelerating...
New radiotracer offers opportunities for earlier intervention after heart attack
Credit: Z Varasteh and S Robu, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar der TUM, Munich, Germany. Reston, VA--Insights into how the heart recovers...
Plants can improve your work life
The mere sight of an indoor plant can reduce stressCredit: Masahiro Toyoda A study out of the University of Hyogo in Awaji, Japan, details the...
ORNL researchers advance performance benchmark for quantum computers
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a quantum chemistry simulation benchmark to evaluate the...
1ST reported occurrence & treatment of spaceflight medical risk 200+ miles above earth
Credit: NASA New Orleans, LA - Serena Auñón-Chancellor, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine's branch campus...
Tests measure solar panel performance beyond established standards
In a series of tests over five years, key parameters in solar panel performance were measured, producing data for better error correction factors and for...
Extra benefit from epilepsy neurostimulators — reducing comorbid neuropsychiatric symptoms
Case studies show five people who found better treatments for neuropsychiatric symptoms from data collected while patients were at homeCredit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - People...
Engrams emerging as the basic unit of memory
Credit: Takashi Kitamura/MIT Picower Institute Though scientist Richard Semon introduced the concept of the "engram" 115 years ago to posit a neural basis for memory,...
A quantum breakthrough brings a technique from astronomy to the nano-scale
Multi-messenger approach allows scientists to probe electronic and magnetic materials at ultra-small length scalesCredit: Ella Maru Studio Researchers at Columbia University and University of California,...
Snake-like proteins can wrangle DNA
Rice study reveals details about how coiled coils may coil again to direct chromosome processCredit: Dana Krepel/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 2, 2020) - It...
Study confirms climate change impacted Hurricane Florence’s precipitation and size
Credit: Stony Brook University The News in Brief: A new modeling framework showed that Hurricane Florence produced more extreme rainfall and was spatially larger due...
Stanford researchers build a particle accelerator that fits on a chip
Just as desktop PCs acquired some of the functions performed by room-sized mainframes, a Stanford team has prototyped a silicon chip that packs some of...
Early modern humans cooked starchy food in South Africa, 170,000 years ago
The discovery also points to food being shared and the use of wooden digging sticks to extract the plants from the groundCredit: Prof. Lyn Wadley/Wits...
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