Biophysical Society selects Biophysical Journal paper of the year for 2018
ROCKVILLE, MD - The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce that Bin Xu and Alexandra Jilkine, University of Notre Dame, have been selected as the...
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New research on CAR T cell therapy, bone marrow transplants and blood cancer treatments
DUARTE, Calif. -- City of Hope announced today that it will present data on new findings on immunotherapies, including CAR T cell therapy, bone marrow...
Unique Antarctic sledge for the transportation of large cargoes
Credit: Comp Mech Lab of Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Center of the National Technology Initiative (NTI) of Peter the Great...
New dual-action cancer-killing virus
Credit: J Freedman/Cancer Research Scientists have equipped a virus that kills carcinoma cells with a protein so it can also target and kill adjacent cells...
A study analyzes the impact of targeted Facebook advertising on the elections
Credit: UC3M Republican Donald Trump's team spent 44 million dollars on Facebook, with 175,000 different adverts during the 2016 election campaign, compared to a spend...
As climate and land-use change accelerate, so must efforts to preserve California’s plants
Credit: Ron Horii As the IPCC warns that we have only 12 years to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by nearly half or risk significantly greater...
Seeing is believing: Monitoring real time changes during cell division
Credit: Lancaster University Scientist have cast new light on the behaviour of tiny hair-like structures called cilia found on almost every cell in the body....
Where you go tells who you are — and vice versa
Credit: Zhenyu Shou, Zhaobin Mo/Columbia Engineering New York, NY--November 19, 2018--Estimating travel demand in a city is a critical tool for urban planners to understand...
New drug discovery could halt spread of brain cancer
Credit: Virginia Tech The tissues in our bodies largely are made of fluid. It moves around cells and is essential to normal body function. But...
New report outlines cancer screening’s future potential
Cancer screening has contributed substantially to reduced incidence, morbidity, and mortality, but issues like access and quality care and have kept screening from fulfilling its...
NRL demonstrates new non-mechanical laser steering technology
Credit: (Jason Myers/U.S. Naval Research Laboratory) WASHINGTON -- Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have recently demonstrated a new nonmechanical chip-based beam steering technology...
Researcher gets $485,263 grant to study how to control materials moving through tiny spaces
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Dr. Gangli Wang, professor of chemistry at Georgia State University, has received a three-year, $485,263 federal grant to study how nanostructured...
Getting things under control: New mouse model aids study of immunomodulation
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan-Because mice do not respond to immunomodulatory drugs (IMiDs), preclinical therapeutic and safety studies of the effects of IMiDs have not...
New blood test detects early stage ovarian cancer
Research on a bacterial toxin first discovered in Adelaide has led to the development a new blood test for the early diagnosis of ovarian cancer...
Study: In-person, but not online, social contact may protect against psychiatric disorders
Credit: Michael Moody In-person social contact seems to offer some protection against depression and PTSD symptoms, but the same is not true of contact on...
