Breast cancer cells become invasive by changing their identity
Researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a protein that determines the identity and invasive properties of breast cancer cells. The finding could lead...
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Despite government claims, orangutan populations have not increased
Credit: HUTAN-KOCP Leipzig/Brunei. Orangutan populations are still declining rapidly, despite claims by the Indonesian Government that things are looking better for the red apes. In...
Clues for drugging the ‘undruggable’
AN 'UNDRUGGABLE' GROUP OF PROTEINS Most FDA-approved small molecule drugs inhibit enzymes - biology's protein machines that catalyze chemical reactions. However, many proteins in biol..
New gene therapy reprograms brain glial cells into neurons
A new gene therapy can turn certain brain glial cells into functioning neurons, which in turn could help repair the brain after a stroke or...
Researchers uncover gene that regulates fat accumulation and obesity
As obesity continues to be the leading cause of deaths world-wide, researchers are working to understand what role genetics play in a person's predisposition for...
StataCorp LLC and Code Ocean partner to accelerate reproducible research with code
StataCorp and Code Ocean announce a partnership enabling researchers to share Stata software code on Code Ocean, a computational reproducibility platform for researchers to share,...
Magnetic pumping pushes plasma particles to high energies
PORTLAND, Ore.--As you walk away from a campfire on a cool autumn night, you quickly feel colder. The same thing happens in outer space. As...
Peak performance: new stellarator experiments show promising results
Credit: (Image credit - Bernhard Ludewig, Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics) PORTLAND, Ore.--Imagine building a machine so advanced and precise you need a supercomputer...
New epilepsy warning device could save thousands of lives
Credit: LivAssured A new high-tech bracelet, developed by scientists from the Netherlands detects 85 percent of all severe night-time epilepsy seizures. That is a much...
A step closer of making the modern digital world to extend human healthspan
Credit: Estonian Research Council/Reimo Rehkli The research group of Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics of Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) received a patent for...
Recreating the sound of the Islamic past of the Mosque of Cordoba
Credit: University of Seville How did words or the rain sound inside the Mosque of Cordoba in the time of Abd al-Rahman I? Today, thanks...
Scientists propose panel to guide gene-editing decisions regarding conservation
An Oregon State University environmental ethicist and scientists from nine other universities say an international oversight panel is needed to guide decisions about whether and...
Saber-toothed cats with oral injuries ate softer foods
Credit: (Copyright, Larisa DeSantis, free to use.) Saber-toothed cats with oral injuries ate softer foods than their uninjured counterparts, who may have provided injured cats...
Breakthrough for treatment of fibrotic diseases
Scientists have discovered a drug combination that could halt the progression of fibrosis - a condition believed to be responsible for almost half of all...
Is foraging behaviour regulated the same way in humans and worms?
Credit: A. Bergs, A. Gottschalk. Finding food and staying at a food source are crucial survival strategies in the animal world. But how are external...
