Rainforest vine compound starves pancreatic cancer cells
Pancreatic cancer cells are known for their ability to thrive under extreme conditions of low nutrients and oxygen, a trait known in the cancer field...
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Professor Adrian Hilton awarded prestigious IET Achievement Meda
The Institute of the Engineering and Technology (IET) has awarded Professor Adrian Hilton from the University of Surrey one of its highest honours, the IET...
Bursting bubbles launch bacteria from water to air
Credit: Image courtesy of the researchers Wherever there's water, there's bound to be bubbles floating at the surface. From standing puddles, lakes, and streams, to...
Clinical trial harnesses power of natural killer cells to treat neuroblastoma
New York City-- Researchers have made rapid advances in understanding how to manipulate the immune system safely to destroy cancer cells. Adoptive transfer of haploidentical...
Feeling the pressure with universal tactile imaging
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - Touch, or tactile sensing, is fundamentally important for a range of real-life applications, from robotics to surgical medicine to...
Research on imaging in radiation oncology featured in Red Journal special issue
Credit: International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics ARLINGTON, Va., November 14, 2018 -- A new special edition of the International Journal of...
FluChip-8G tested in US and China for rapid characterization of influenza viruses
Credit: Greg Gray November 14, 2018 - Scientists at Duke Kunshan University and Duke University are collaborating with InDevR Inc. to evaluate the FluChip-8G Insight...
Researchers identify a mechanism that fuels cancer cells’ growth
FINDINGS Scientists at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified sodium glucose transporter 2, or SGLT2, as a mechanism that lung cancer cells can...
‘Hopeful technology’ could change detection, diagnosis of deadly ovarian cancer
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis / Mike Martin Media Ovarian cancer claims the lives of more than 14,000 in the U.S. each year, ranking...
Researchers in japan make android child’s face strikingly more expressive
Credit: Osaka University Osaka - Japan's affection for robots is no secret. But is the feeling mutual in the country's amazing androids? We may now...
St. Jude announces extensive resource to advance leukemia research
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital St. Jude Children's Research Hospital today announced the availability of one of the world's largest collections of leukemia samples...
Anti-Malaria drugs have shown promise in treating cancer, and now researchers know why
PHILADELPHIA - Anti-malaria drugs known as chloroquines have been repurposed to treat cancer for decades, but until now no one knew exactly what the chloroquines...
Nightingale’s technology links chronic inflammation with disease risk and shorter lifespan
Credit: Nightingale Health Chronic inflammation is currently a hot topic in health and wellness, being linked to everything from heart disease to clinical depression. In...
Surgery & combination therapy optimizes results in aggressive prostate cancer management
Boston, MA -- Men presenting with aggressive prostate cancer - Gleason Score of 9 or 10 - comprise most of those who will die from...
New ‘SLICE’ tool can massively expand immune system’s cancer-fighting repertoire
Immunotherapy can cure some cancers that until fairly recently were considered fatal. In addition to developing drugs that boost the immune system's cancer-fighting abilities, scientists...
