Combination therapy could provide new treatment option for ovarian cancer
Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center Researchers have been trying to understand why up to 85 percent of women ...
Tea tree genome contains clues about how one leaf produces so many flavors
Credit: LiZhi Gao Lab The most popular varieties of tea -- including black tea, green tea, Oolong tea, white tea, ...
Dr. Li-Ru Zhao receives 2017 Bernard Sanberg Memorial Award from ASNTR
Tampa, Fla. (May 1, 2017) - At the 24rd Annual Conference of the American Society of Neural Therapy and Repair ...
Advances: Bioinformatics applied to development & evaluation of boron-containing compounds
Credit: Marvin Antonio Soriano et al In the last few decades, research into boron-containing compounds (BCCs) has notably increased in ...
Study offers new insight into powerful inflammatory regulator
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new study in mice reveals how a protein called Brd4 ...
Cities provide paths from poverty to sustainability
Credit: Shack/Slum Dweller International (SDI), South Africa New international agreements commit all UN member nations to solving humanity's greatest challenges ...
Zapping bacteria with sanitizers made of paper
Credit: Jingjin Xie Imagine wearing clothes with layers of paper that protect you from dangerous bacteria. A Rutgers-led team has ...
New porous solids may lead to better drugs
Credit: Caltech An international team of researchers, led by Mark E. Davis at Caltech, has succeeded in making the first ...
Stenciling with atoms in 2-dimensional materials possible
Credit: Eichfeld, Penn State The possibilities for the new field of two-dimensional, one-atomic-layer-thick materials, including but not limited to graphene, ...
Alcohol is associated with higher risk of breast cancer in African-American women
Bottom Line: Alcohol consumption was associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in a large study of African-American women, ...
Connecting the dots between insulin resistance, unhealthy blood vessels and cancer
Credit: John Soares BOSTON - (May 1, 2017) - Over the decades, scientists have repeatedly shown that patients with increased ...
An illuminating honor
Credit: Melissa Van De Werfhorst UC Santa Barbara engineering professor Larry Coldren has received the 2017 Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award ...
Developing climate-resilient wheat varieties
Credit: Mark Sorrells May 1, 2017 - Increases in climate variability have placed new emphasis on the need for resilient ...
Galápagos study identifies keystone predator in a complex food web
Loading video... Credit: Witman/PLOS ONE PROVIDENCE, R.I. --Despite popular metaphors and cartoons depicting straightforward "food chains," ecologists such as Brown ...
When single-family homes killed L.A.’s urban forest
Credit: USC News and Spatial Sciences Institute Plant a tree, save the world? Maybe, but preventing the chopping down of ...
Kansas State University continues to lead effort to battle citrus greening
MANHATTAN, KANSAS - Kansas State University researchers will continue to lead efforts to combat a deadly bacterial disease that's affected ...
Researchers to make corrections in climate change models
Global warming is a concept very well-known to people today, even those who are not particularly invested in such matters. ...
LSUHealthNO awarded $2.5m grant to develop better dental filling materials
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry New Orleans, LA - The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research ...
Earthquakes can make thrust faults open violently and snap shut
Credit: Harsha Bhat/ENS It is a common trope in disaster movies: an earthquake strikes, causing the ground to rip open ...
International Communication Association to hold annual conference in San Diego, CA
Washington, DC (May 1, 2017) The International Communication Association will hold its annual conference May 25-29 in San Diego, CA ...
