Study finds no evidence of common herpes type virus in aggressive brain cancer tissue
Credit: Angelo De Marzo In a rigorous study of tumor tissue collected from 125 patients with aggressive brain cancers, researchers ...
A minimally invasive tool to measure muscle impairment
Credit: Young et al./Biophysical Journal 2017 A minimally invasive, fiber-optic technique that accurately measures the passive stretch and twitch contraction ...
Researchers discover new combination therapy strategy for brain, blood cancers
Credit: University of Cincinnati CINCINNATI--Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine have discovered a new potential strategy ...
Cell ‘stickiness’ could indicate metastatic potential
Credit: Afsheen Banisadr and Pranjali Beri How strongly tumor cells adhere to the surrounding tissue could indicate the likelihood that ...
Liver tumor growth in mice slowed with new chemo-immunotherapy treatment
Credit: Justin Kelley/MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (Feb. 28, 2017) -- Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common form of liver cancer, ...
NMR spectroscopy platform to target the development of new therapeutic agents
Implementation of a new nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy platform will provide professors Nicolas Doucet and Steven LaPlante of Centre ...
Male poison frogs become cannibals after taking over territories
Credit: Andrius Pasukonis In general, male poison frogs of the species Allobates femoralis are observed as very caring and attentive ...
NeuroVision announces participation in landmark Alzheimer’s A4 study
Credit: NeuroVision Imaging LLC SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - NeuroVision Imaging LLC ("NeuroVision") today announced its participation in a new substudy with ...
Open Science Prize goes to software tool for tracking viral outbreaks
After three rounds of competition -- one of which involved a public vote -- a software tool developed by researchers ...
Inhaler users get about half as much medicine as they should from each puff
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Tens of millions of Americans with lung disease use metered-dose inhalers each day, and new studies ...
Study finds colorectal cancer rates have risen dramatically in Gen X and millennials
ATLANTA - February 28, 2017 - A new study finds that compared to people born around 1950, when colorectal cancer ...
Treatment of malignant brain tumor in children gets closer
DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma) is a rare malignant cerebral tumour in children. It has only a 1% 5-year survival ...
Exploring the mysteries of supercooled water
Credit: Margherita De Marzio, Gaia Camisasca, Maria Martin Conde, Mauro Rovere and Paola Gallo WASHINGTON, D.C., February 28, 2017 -- ...
Breakthrough research for testing and arranging vertical axis wind turbines
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 28, 2017 -- The sight of propeller-like rotating blades positioned high up the pole of a tall ...
Optical generation of ultrasound via photoacoustic effect
Credit: Brown et al. WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 28, 2017 -- Limitations of the piezoelectric array technologies conventionally used for ultrasonics ...
More mosquito species than previously thought may transmit Zika
Credit: UGA Athens, Ga. - Zika virus could be transmitted by more mosquito species than those currently known, according to ...
Do cells have exotic vibrational properties?
A little-understood biological property that appears to allow cell components to store energy on their outer edges is the possible ...
Transforming the carbon economy
Credit: Princeton University Most strategies to combat climate change concentrate on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by substituting non-carbon energy sources ...
Recent investigations on human group II pyridoxal 5′-phosphate decarboxylases
The aim of the present article is to compare the structural features of a particular group of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-dependent decarboxylases, ...
Lithium-ion battery inventor introduces new technology for fast-charging, noncombustible batteries
Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering A team of engineers led by 94-year-old John Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School of ...
