Researchers to test novel drug combination against toughest breast cancers
Credit: Image courtesy of Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have launched a phase Ib clinical trial to assess the safety...
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UTSA enters Guinness World Records with smallest medical robot
Credit: The University of Texas at San Antonio (San Antonio, Aug. 27, 2018) -- It can't be seen with a human eye. It doesn't look...
As CO2 levels climb, millions at risk of nutritional deficiencies
Boston, MA - Rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) from human activity are making staple crops such as rice and wheat less nutritious and could...
Ebola species found in bats ahead of any potential outbreak
Credit: Jaber Belkhiria/UC Davis For the first time, scientists discovered a new ebola virus species in a host prior to detection in an infected human...
Australian, UK scientists solve 30-year wheat rust genetics puzzle
Credit: Jianping Zhang Researchers from the University of Sydney, CSIRO, the United Kingdom's John Innes Centre, Limagrain UK and the National Institute of Agricultural Botany...
Geologists uncover new clues about largest mass extinction ever
A new study could help explain the driving force behind the largest mass extinction in the history of earth, known as the End-Permian Extinction. The...
Scientists ‘fix’ bacterial tree of life
Credit: The University of Queensland Bacterial classification has been given a complete makeover by a team of University of Queensland researchers, using an evolutionary tree...
Samara Polytech geologists discovered the fullest skull of Wetlugasaurus
Credit: @SamaraPolytech This June the staff of the "Geology and Geophysics" Department of Samara Polytech took part in a scientific expedition of the Triassic and...
Serendipitous discovery by IUPUI researchers may lead to eco-friendly lubricant
Credit: Photo credit: Chunyu Zhang INDIANAPOLIS -- Seed oil components of an ornamental flower could provide a direct pathway for designing a new class of...
Wildfire risk doesn’t douse housing demand
Credit: Josh Hawkins/UNLV Creative Services Out of sight, out of mind. That's the conclusion of a new UNLV study which found that real estate prices...
Study finds sucralose produces previously unidentified metabolites
Sucralose, a widely used artificial sweetener sold under the trade name Splenda®, is metabolized in the gut, producing at least two fat-soluble compounds, according to...
Epigenetic analysis of aggressive brain tumors
Credit: Karl-Heinz Nenning (Vienna, August 27, 2018) Glioblastoma is a highly aggressive brain cancer that predominantly affects people in their 50s, 60s and 70s. Even...
Breast cancer breakthrough: Some tumors can stop their own spread
The findings, uncovered in mice and patient tumours, are published in Nature Cell Biology today. They reveal a previously unseen 'ecosystem' in advanced breast cancer,...
Predicting the response to immunotherapy using artificial intelligence
A study published in The Lancet Oncology establishes for the first time that artificial intelligence can process medical images to extract biological and clinical information....
How do fruit flies grow legs? Solving a molecular mystery
Credit: Roumen Voutev/Mann Lab/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK -- What do cancer and the growing legs of a fruit fly have in common? They can...
