UCI scientists create organs-on-chips for large-scale drug screening
Credit: Hughes Lab Led by UCI professor of molecular biology & biochemistry Christopher C.W. Hughes, the research team successfully established ...
Penn researchers are among the first to grow a versatile 2-dimensional material
University of Pennsylvania researchers are now among the first to produce a single, three-atom-thick layer of a unique two-dimensional material ...
Study of complex genetic region finds hidden role of NCF1 in multiple autoimmune diseases
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina Investigators at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) report pre-clinical research showing that ...
This Week from AGU: Greenland Ice Sheet melting can cool subtropics and alter climate
This Week from AGU: Greenland Ice Sheet melting can cool subtropics and alter climate GeoSpace Greenland Ice Sheet melting can ...
An alternative theory on how aspirin may thwart cancer
Studies abound that point to a role for plain old aspirin in keeping deadly cancers at bay. While aspirin is ...
Refined method offers new piece in the cancer puzzle
Credit: The University of Gothenburg A special spectrometry method that is normally used in analyses of computer chips, lacquers and ...
Patient self checks are critical to avoid potentially deadly melanoma recurrence
CHICAGO ( February 8, 2017): Recurrences of early stage (stage II) melanoma are more often detected by patients and their ...
Collapsed chloroplasts are targeted in self-eating process
Credit: Masanori Izumi Researchers at Tohoku University have identified a previously uncharacterized type of autophagy, during which an autophagic process ...
Carnivores more seriously threatened by roads than previously acknowledged
Credit: raincarnation40 / Pixabay.com / CC0 Public Domain (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.de) Leipzig/Halle (Saale)/Porto. The effects of roads on carnivores have obviously ..
Bright spots of resilience to climate disturbance
Credit: Jennifer O'Leary Climate-driven disturbances are having profound impacts on coastal ecosystems, with many crucial habitat-forming species in sharp decline. ...
UA hosts conference on science diplomacy and policy
Join renowned scientists, engineers, policy advisers and public health experts at "Science Diplomacy and Policy with Focus on the Americas," ...
Office-based test developed to identify amyloidosis-related heart failure
(Boston)--Boston researchers have developed a new diagnostic test that may help doctors identify patients with a condition called cardiac amyloidosis. ...
Study provides new insight into different forms of heart failure
Using a novel noninvasive technique, a team of researchers led by a professor at the University of Texas Arlington's College ...
Large groups of photons on demand — an equivalent of photonic ‘integrated circuit’
Credit: Source: UW Physics, Mateusz Mazelanik Holographic atomic memory, invented and constructed by physicists from the Faculty of Physics at ...
Hidden lakes drain below West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
Credit: Ben Smith/University of Washington Thwaites Glacier on the edge of West Antarctica is one of the planet's fastest-moving glaciers. ...
How to decrease the mass of aircrafts
Credit: Aleksander Babkin Members of the Department of Chemistry of Lomonosov Moscow State University have created unique polymer matrices for ...
Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation to bestow annual awards
FAIRFAX, VA (Feb. 8, 2017) -- Riad Salem, M.D., MBA, FSIR, will receive the Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation Leaders ...
Mayo Clinic researchers quantify immune cells associated with future breast cancer risk
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Researchers from Mayo Clinic have quantified the numbers of various types of immune cells associated with the ...
NIH study reveals how melanoma spreads
Cancerous tumors are voracious. Once they have consumed all the oxygen and nutrients in the original tumor site, the cancer ...
Pioneering chip extends sensors’ battery life
Credit: University of Bristol A low-cost chip that enables batteries in sensors to last longer, in some cases by over ...
