Skin ages when the main cells in the dermis lose their identity and function
Credit: M Salzer, IRB Barcelona With age, our tissues lose their function and capacity to regenerate after being damaged. A study published today in Cell...
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2018 California Safety and Wellbeing Survey details firearm ownership in the state
Fourteen percent of California adults, or roughly 4.2 million individuals, personally own firearms. While the majority (54 percent) of owners have just one or two...
Prostate cancer radiotherapy more precisely targeted with nuclear medicine imaging
Credit: Jeremie Calais and Nicholas G. Nickols, UCLA. Current standard imaging techniques for initial staging of prostate cancer often underestimate the extent of disease beyond...
CIES and Advantest develop STT-MRAM switching current measurement for memory test systems
Credit: Advantest Corporation Tohoku University's Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES), led by Professor Tetsuo Endoh (Graduate School of Engineering at Tohoku University) has...
Grants aim to give veterans better access to cancer trials
Credit: SWOG Cancer Research Network/Hope Foundation for Cancer Research For the fourth year, SWOG Cancer Research Network and its charity, The Hope Foundation for Cancer...
No cooperation without open communication
Credit: IST Austria/Yvonne Kemper Indirect reciprocity is a model that explores how humans act when their reputation is at stake, and which social norms people...
New book on Translation Mechanisms and Control from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: The authors thank Jonathan Weissman, Masaaki Sokabe, Christopher Fraser, Tsafi Pe'ery and Cheyenne Moorman for their contributions to the cover. (The background, excerpted from...
Nitrogen fixation in ambient conditions
Credit: Marta Falcone/Marinella Mazzanti/EPFL Abundant in nature (78% of the air we breathe), nitrogen is rarely used in the industrial production of chemicals, with the...
First-ever prostate cancer treatment uses gold nanoparticles to destroy tumorous cells
Credit: UTHealth HOUSTON - (Nov. 8, 2018) - A small clinical trial using gold nanoparticles that act as tumor-seeking missiles on a mission to remove...
Modelling reveals dynamics of climate change, urbanization and heat-mitigating technologies
The near-term future of Earth is one of a warming planet, as urban expansion and greenhouse gas emissions stoke the effects of climate change. Current...
Hidden estrogen receptors in the breast epithelium
Estrogens are hormones that play central roles in the development and the physiology of the breast, but also are involved in breast cancer. Like all...
In live brain function, researchers are finally seeing red
Credit: Image by Madhuvanthi Kannan and Ganesh Vasan; composite by Michael Helfenbein New Haven, Conn. -- For years, green has been the most reliable hue...
New flexible, transparent, wearable biopatch, improves cellular observation, drug delivery
Credit: (Purdue image) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind - Purdue University researchers have developed a new flexible and translucent base for silicon nanoneedle patches to deliver exact...
Study opens route to ultra-low-power microchips
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A new approach to controlling magnetism in a microchip could open the doors to memory, computing, and sensing devices that consume drastically...
Natatanuran frogs used the Indian Plate to step-stone disperse and radiate across the Indian Ocean
Credit: ©Science China Press The Late Mesozoic breakup of Gondwana triggered major biotic exchanges between Laurasia and Gondwanan landmasses that continue to influence modern distributions...
