Going with the flow: How fecal bacteria spread in streams
Credit: Doerthe Tetzlaff Faecal bacteria - bacteria that are present in the digestive system of humans and animals - are known to contaminate waters. They...
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Cancer exports molecular ‘saboteurs’ to remotely disarm immune system
Discovery may help explain immunotherapy resistance, hints at new therapies Immunotherapy drugs known as checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized cancer treatment: many patients with malignancies that...
Defining the emotional bond forced onto teen victims of sex trafficking
Study will help rescuers identify and help children who are the victims of sex trafficking Rutgers researchers have defined the relationship that forms between children...
Magnetic nanoparticles can ‘burn’ cancer cells
Magnetic hyperthermia is still a highly experimental cancer treatment, but new research shows that the therapy is tunable Unfortunately, cancer isn't simply a single disease,...
Through machine learning, new model holds water
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory While water is perceived to be one of the simplest substances in the world, modeling its behavior on the atomic or...
Telerehabilitation benefits patients with late-stage cancers
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Recent research led by Andrea Cheville, M.D., a Mayo Clinic physical medicine and rehabilitation physician, suggests that remotely delivering rehabilitation services to...
Screw-shaped bird sperm swim faster — but it comes at a cost
Credit: Hanna Støstad The research was part of the thesis of PhD student Hanna Nyborg Støstad, investigating the peculiar spiral shape of songbird sperm. Støstad...
Unraveling the tangled web of online television
Professor Catherine Johnson's new book, 'Online TV.' provides a guide to changes that have taken place since the arrival of high-speed broadband, tablets, smartphones and...
And the blobs just keep on coming
Credit: Tom Bridgman/NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio When Simone Di Matteo first saw the patterns in his data, it seemed too good to be true. "It's...
Study: Impact of concussions reduced in children with more years of sport experience
TORONTO, April 4, 2019 - More years in sports - not less - may help protect the brains of children who have had a concussion,...
Electricity-conducting bacteria yield secret to tiny batteries, big medical advances
Researchers reveal amazing biological 'wires' of a sort never seen beforeCredit: Edward H. Egelman Scientists have made a surprising discovery about how strange bacteria that...
The chemistry behind color-changing birds (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, April 04, 2019 -- There are thousands of species of birds here on Earth, and with those numbers come...
Super berries power up porridge
As the popularity of porridge continues to rise, the addition of a super berry could make it the ultimate new power breakfast for health-conscious, gluten-intolerant...
HZB contributions to special edition on ultrafast dynamics with X-ray methods
Credit: Royal Society Almost 350 years after Isaac Newton's ground-breaking paper "Theory of Light and Colors (1671)", the world's oldest scientific journal Philosophical Transactions is...
Can human breast milk reduce intestinal injury following bone marrow transplant?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 4, 2019--A new pilot study compared the use of human breast milk to formula in...
