Key cancer-fighting gene’s secret weapons revealed
Credit: The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute The findings revealed that a special group of genes that function within the body's normal DNA repair process...
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A new therapy proves effective against brain metastasis
A study published in Nature Medicine by a team led by Manuel Valiente, head of the Brain Metastasis Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research...
USC scientists help identify genetic markers for prostate cancer in global DNA download
An international team of researchers including USC scientists has found scores of new genetic markers in DNA code that increase prostate cancer risk -- powerful...
DIY brings high throughput to continuous cell culturing
Credit: C. Bashor/Rice University HOUSTON -- (June 11, 2018) -- Rice University's Caleb Bashor never planned to be an inventor or do-it-yourselfer, but there was...
Pandoravirus: Giant viruses invent their own genes
Credit: IGS- CNRS/AMU Three new members have been isolated and added to the Pandoravirus family by researchers at the Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory (CNRS/Aix?Marseille...
‘Tricking’ bacteria into hydroxylating benzene
Credit: Osami Shoji and Masayuki Karasawa Nagoya, Japan - Breaking carbon-hydrogen bonds is notoriously difficult in lab chemistry, yet nature does it effortlessly. Now, scientists...
Solar cells combining silicon with perovskite have achieved record efficiency of 25.2 percent
Credit: EPFL In the field of photovoltaic technologies, silicon-based solar cells make up 90% of the market. In terms of cost, stability and efficiency (20-22%...
Wastewater treatment plants are key route into UK rivers for microplastics
Water samples from UK rivers contained significantly higher concentrations of microplastics downstream from wastewater treatment plants, according to one of the first studies to determine...
Study points to possible treatment target for aggressive liver cancer in kids
CINCINNATI - A protein in the cell nucleus already targeted therapeutically for several types of cancer has now been linked to an aggressive form of...
Montana State researcher wins major award to engineer microbial biofilms
Credit: MSU photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN - Just as an entomologist studies how ants organize themselves in a colony, Montana State University researcher Connie...
30 percent of the UK’s natural gas could be replaced by hydrogen, cutting carbon emissions
Credit: Swansea University Almost a third of the natural gas fuelling UK homes and businesses could be replaced by hydrogen, a carbon free fuel, without...
Otago researchers help unlock answers about leptospirosis in Africa
Credit: University of Otago. University of Otago researchers are helping lead international studies which have discovered that exposure to cattle and rice farming are risk...
Researchers identify new type of depression
Depression is a mental disorder that affects over 300 million people around the world. While treatments exist, many of them are based on one hypothesis...
WuXi AppTec and Insilico Medicine link next-generation artificial intelligence and drug discovery
Credit: Insilico Medicine BALTIMORE, Maryland & SHANGHAI, China - June 11, 2018 -- Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based next-generation artificial intelligence company specialized in the application..
Mangoes helped improve cardiovascular and gut health in women
Credit: UCDavis BOSTON (June 11, 2018) -- A new study conducted at the University of California, Davis found that two cups of mangos a day...
