Biodiversity not a risk factor for emerging diseases and other ecology news
Credit: Ecological Society of America Biodiversity is not a risk factor for emerging disease Understanding the underground dynamics of grassland ...
Resilient red blood cells need fuel to adapt their shape to the environment
Credit: Hiroaki Ito Osaka - Red blood cells, also called erythrocytes, need a certain springiness to circulate through the body. ...
Modern alchemy creates luminescent iron molecules
A group of researchers at Lund University in Sweden have made the first iron-based molecule capable of emitting light. This ...
The beginning of the end of order
Credit: University of Konstanz Now, 50 years later, a group of physicists from Konstanz headed by Dr Peter Keim, were ...
Nanomagnets for future data storage
Credit: ETH Zurich / Université de Rennes The idea is intriguing: if only a single atom or small molecule was ...
Emissions from the edge of the forest
Credit: Usina Trapiche S/A When talk is of important ecosystems, tropical forests are top of the list. After all, half ...
Explaining the accelerating expansion of the universe without dark energy
(Royal Astronomical Society) Enigmatic dark energy, thought to make up 68% of the universe, may not exist at all, according ...
Method identified to boost detection of highly cancerous stem cells
Credit: Department of Stem Cell Regulation,TMDU Japanese researchers identify process to improve fluorescence detection of cancer stem cells, which are ...
An epigenetic lesion could be responsible for acute T-cell leukemia
Credit: IDIBELL Researchers from the Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program (PEBC) led by Dr. Manel Esteller at the Bellvitge Biomedical ...
ELCC 2017: Latest news in lung cancer
Geneva, Switzerland -5 May-8 May 2017 Around 2,000 delegates from across Europe and worldwide will learn about the latest practice-changing ...
Cancer cells disguise themselves by switching off genes, new research reveals
Amsterdam, March 30, 2017 - Scientists have uncovered how tumor cells in aggressive uterine cancer can switch disguises and spread ...
Anti-cancer drug gets a boost when combined with antirheumatic
Credit: Paul Dyson/EPFL Scientists at EPFL and NTU have discovered that combining an anticancer drug with an antirheumatic produces improved ...
Testing effects of ‘noise’ on the decision-making abilities of slime mold
Credit: Jerry Kirkhart, Flickr Foraging abilities of the amoeboid slime mold Physarum polycephalum may be improved by "noise" in the ...
A faster single-pixel camera
Compressed sensing is an exciting new computational technique for extracting large amounts of information from a signal. In one high-profile ...
Researchers track perfluorinated chemicals in the body
Credit: University of Notre Dame They are the chemicals that made consumers think twice about using nonstick cookware. New research ...
Study finds 1 in 8 Calgary homes exceed Health Canada’s acceptable radon level
Credit: Riley Brandt Radon gas is a colourless, odourless radioactive gas that has been linked to lung cancer. Now, University ...
Brain scans show dopamine levels fall during migraine attacks
ANN ARBOR--Using PET scans of the brain, University of Michigan researchers showed that dopamine falls and fluctuates at different times ...
Officials dedicate OSC’s newest, most powerful supercomputer
Credit: OSC J.C. "Jesse" Owens possessed both elite speed and raw power, which he honed and blended on his way ...
Team highlights work on tuning block polymers for nanostructured systems
High-performance materials are enabling major advances in a wide range of applications from energy generation and digital information storage to ...
Fred Hutch scientists to cover advances in immunotherapy, proteomics at AACR
Scientists from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle are scheduled to present and discuss the latest developments in ...
