Mobs are, sometimes, good
Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Submitting to mob mentality is always a risky endeavor, for humans or ...
Cancer cells hijack DNA repair networks to stay alive, Pitt study shows
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 8, 2016 - Research by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) has revealed how cancer ...
Tailored, dense-dose chemotherapy for early breast cancer does not result in significant improvement
Among women with high-risk early breast cancer, the use of tailored dose-dense chemotherapy compared with standard adjuvant chemotherapy did not ...
Supplemental, nutrient-enriched donor milk does not improve neurodevelopment in VLBW infants
Among very low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants, the use of supplemental donor milk compared with formula did not improve neurodevelopment at 18 ...
More frequent vaping among teens linked to higher risk of heavy cigarette smoking
In a study appearing in the November 8 issue of JAMA, Adam M. Leventhal, Ph.D., of the University of Southern ...
Television cooking shows overlook safe food handling practices
Credit: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior PHILADELPHIA, PA, Nov. 8, 2016 - Forty-eight million cases of foodborne illness are ...
ASH and partners receive grant to address knowledge gaps in AML care
(WASHINGTON, November 8, 2016) - The American Society of Hematology (ASH) has partnered with several organizations on independent educational programming ...
New technology taps power of diatoms to dramatically improve sensor performance
Credit: (Graphic courtesy of Oregon State University) CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers at Oregon State University have combined one of nature's ...
Major advance in solar cells made from cheap, easy-to-use perovskite
Credit: Onur Ergen, UC Berkeley Solar cells made from an inexpensive and increasingly popular material called perovskite can more efficiently ...
Telephone-based intervention shows promise in combating alcohol abuse among soldiers
Alcohol abuse is pervasive in the military, where a culture of heavy drinking and the stress of deployment lead many ...
Allen Institute for Brain Science announces 2016 Next Generation Leaders
The Allen Institute for Brain Science announces the newest cohort of Next Generation Leaders: a group of six esteemed young ...
Homeopathy — The undiluted facts
Credit: Springer As a junior doctor, Edzard Ernst worked in a homeopathic hospital, practised homeopathy, and was impressed with its ...
Collapse of mitochondria-associated membrane in ALS
Credit: (c) Koji Yamanaka laboratory Nagoya, Japan - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an adult onset, fetal neurodegenerative disease that ...
Solving the puzzle of necroptosis
Cell death is an essential physiological process for all multicellular organisms. Throughout life, cells in many tissues die naturally and ...
Humans proven to recognize partially obscured snakes more easily than other animals
Credit: Nobuyuki Kawai Nagoya, Japan - Some studies have suggested that the visual systems of humans and other primates are ...
Blood fats equal risk of pancreatitis
New research from the University of Copenhagen shows that mild to moderate levels of blood fats equals an increased risk ...
Medical professors question ‘residency placement fever’
Credit: Brown University For people with a greater than 50 percent chance of landing their top job choice and a ...
Scientists identify key evolutionary catalyst for antibiotic resistance
A new study led by scientists at the University of Oxford has found that small DNA molecules known as plasmids ...
A public database of macromolecular diffraction experiments
Credit: M. Grabowski et al. The reproducibility of published experimental results has recently attracted attention in many different scientific fields. ...
Analog series-based scaffolds: a new definition that may aid medicinal chemistry
Credit: Future Science Group While the Bemis-Murcko approach to scaffold analysis has remained the go-to definition for computational medicinal chemistry ...
