Nutritional cues regulate pancreatic tumor’s ‘cell drinking’
Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys LA JOLLA, CALIF. - June 27, 2019 - Desperate for nutrients, rapidly growing pancreatic tumors resort to scavenging "fuel" through an...
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Researchers discriminate between mutations that promote cancer growth and those that don’t
Credit: UCI School of Medicine Until now, researchers believed recurrent mutations (hotspot mutations) in cancer tumors were the important mutations (driver mutations) that promoted cancer...
New AI tool captures top players’ strategies in RNA video game
Neural network approach could aid efforts to build biomedically useful RNA structuresCredit: Koodli et al. A new artificial-intelligence tool captures strategies used by top players...
Too many antioxidants may cause lung cancer spread
A new study explains why lung cancer spreads faster in patients with certain genetic changes, and suggests that taking vitamin E, long thought of as...
A snapshot in time: Study captures fleeting cell differences that can alter disease risk
In cinema and science fiction, one small change in the past can have major, sometimes life-changing effects in the future. Using a series of snapshots,...
University of Missouri receives $8.6 million grant for new biomedical research center
The Swine Somatic Cell Genome Editing Center will translate laboratory research into treatments for human diseasesCredit: University of Missouri Today, the University of Missouri announced...
Insects need empathy
Immediate, science-based community action can mitigate insect declineCredit: Julia Harencar This year, German environmentalists collected 1.75 million signatures for a 'save the bees' law requiring...
Researchers unlock mysteries of complex microRNA oncogenes
New research led by McGill's Goodman Cancer Research Centre improves our understanding of microRNAsCredit: McGill University MicroRNAs are tiny molecules of nucleic acid that control...
Researchers verify 70-year-old theory of turbulence in fluids
Credit: The University of Queensland Pilots and air travellers know turbulence can be powerful, but science has struggled to fully explain the phenomenon. Now, a...
Life data economics: calling for new models to assess the value of human data
After the collapse of the blockchain bubble a number of research organisations are developing platforms to enable individual ownership of life data and establish the...
Cosmic cat and mouse: Astronomers capture and tag a fleeting radio burst
Credit: CSIRO/Dr Andrew Howells An Australian-led team of astronomers using the Gemini South telescope in Chile have successfully confirmed the distance to a galaxy hosting...
Trees for water quality credits
In a new study, UC Santa Barbara Bren School professor Arturo Keller links reforestation to water quality credits The more naturally verdant an area is,...
New Zealand and Australian researchers observe 70-year-old prediction, with wide-reaching effects
As you stir milk into a cup of coffee, you will see fluid turbulence in action - rapid mixing that has defied deep scientific understanding....
Rethink environmental regulations in Africa, study urges
Credit: McKenzie Johnson, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Conflict over resource extraction is rampant in sub-Saharan Africa, with small-scale miners violently pitted against multinational...
New technology gives insight into how nanomaterials form and grow
Researchers examine 'living' nanomaterials for first time EVANSTON, Ill. -- A new form of electron microscopy allows researchers to examine nanoscale tubular materials while they...
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