Combination of immunotherapy and VEGF inhibitor improves survival in HCC
ESMO Asia Congress 2019Credit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Singapore, 23 November 2019 - Combination therapy with the PD-L1 inhibitor atezolizumab and the VEGF...
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Wendy’s named 2019-2020 HRM Impact Award Winner
SHRM, SIOP, and their foundations to award organizations that are improving Human Resource management practicesCredit: The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Bowling Green, Ohio...
Sophia Maurasse, M.D., wins prestigious National Compassionate Caregiver of the Year Award
Schwartz Center recognizes Maurasse for her extraordinary work with complicated, challenging, difficult-to-reach patientsCredit: McLean Hospital McLean Hospital's Sophia L. Maurasse, MD, has been honored as...
How the brain decides to punish or not
Meta analysis identifies areas responsible for punishment decisionsCredit: Oksana Zinchenko, 'Brain Responses to Social Punishment: a Meta-Analysis.' Sci Rep 9, 12800 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41598-019-49239-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49239-1... Oksana...
Department of Defense awards grant to Stephenson researcher for lung cancer study
Credit: OU Medicine OKLAHOMA CITY - Cancer researchers operate from a fundamental premise: Tumor cells are very smart. Because of their ability to disguise themselves,...
Is centenarian democratization our near future?
Jean-Pierre Fillard's Longevity in the 2.0 World: Would Centenarians Become a Commonplace?Credit: World Scientific Have you ever wondered how does the digital age affect our...
A model will help to understand the solar dynamics
Credit: Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) An international group of scientists, in cooperation with a research scientist from Skoltech, has developed a model to describe changes...
Interaction with fungus containing N2-fixing endobacteria improves rice nitrogen nutrition
Nitrogen nutrition improved in rice by interaction with rhodotorula mucilaginosa and its N2-fixing endobacteriaCredit: Karnelia Paul, Mayurakshi Nag, and Anindita Seal ASPB is pleased...
New electrodes could increase efficiency of electric vehicles and aircraft
Credit: Texas A&M Engineering The rise in popularity of electric vehicles and aircraft presents the possibility of moving away from fossil fuels toward a more...
DNA repeats — the genome’s dark matter
First direct analysis of pathogenic sequence repeats in the human genomeCredit: MPI f. Molecular Genetics/ Pay Gießelmann Expansions of DNA repeats are very hard to...
Dangerous bacteria communicate to avoid antibiotics
Credit: University of Copenhagen A bacterial infection is not just an unpleasant experience - it can also be a major health problem. Some bacteria develop...
Research shows old newspapers can be used to grow carbon nanotubes
Newspapers provide a green, economical way to produce carbon nanotubesCredit: Rice University A research collaboration between Rice University and the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI)...
Caught in afterglow: 1st detection of Inverse Compton emission from dying gamma-ray burst
Researchers from the Centre for Astro-Particle Physics (CAPP) within the Department of Physics at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) collaborate with the teams from the...
Scientists reveal the dominant role of quenched disorder on complex oxide nanowires
Credit: ©Science China Press The semiconductor industry has been developed for more than 40 years following the Moore's Law. With the size of transistors being...
Bridging surface plasmon polaritons and the digital world
Credit: ©Science China Press Digital coding and digital modulation technologies are important cornerstones of modern information science and technology, but they are limited in the...
