Illuminating cancer: Researchers invent a pH threshold sensor to…
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – Dec. 20, 2016 – UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have invented a transistor-like threshold sensor that can illuminate cancer tissue,...
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Light-activated cancer drugs without toxic side effects: Fresh insight
Credit: Robbin Vernooij/University of Warwick Cancer drugs activated by light, minimizing toxic side-effects, are a step closer thanks to new research from University of Warwick...
NIH releases first dataset from unprecedented study of adolescent brain development
Credit: Source: Dr. Richard Watts and ABCD/Univ. of VT P.I. Dr. Hugh Garavan The National Institutes of Health today released to the scientific community an...
Digital liver scanning technology could halve the number of liver biopsies needed in the NHS
Credit: University of Birmingham A study jointly led by the University of Birmingham and University of Edinburgh has revealed that a new scanning technology could...
Cannot sleep due to stress? Here is the cure
Credit: Univetsity of Tsukuba Everyone empirically knows that stressful events certainly affect sound sleep. Scientists in the Japanese sleep institute found that the active component...
Climate change drives UK wine production but not without weather shocks
The idea of climate change turning the UK into a viable wine-making region may have boosted the industry in recent years. But cold snaps, sharp...
With mini-vessels, mini-brains expand research potential
Credit: Hoffman-Kim lab/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Scientists have recently made a wondrous variety of mini-brains — 3-D cultures of neural cells that model basic...
Neuron types in brain are defined by gene activity shaping their communication patterns
Credit: Huang Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY – In a major step forward in research, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) today publish...
New book on Cell Polarity from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: Travis R. Ruch and Joanne N. Engel, University of California, San Francisco Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) announced...
How antibiotic use in animals is contributing to antibiotic resistance
Credit: European Journal of Soil Science The overuse of veterinary antibiotics in animal production and the subsequent land applications of manure contribute to increased antibiotic...
The snow leopard — world’s most mysterious big cat — may be more common than thought
Credit: WCS Recent evidence suggests that there may be between 4,678 and 8,745 snow leopards in only 44 percent of their global range; this estimate...
Scientists block the siren call of two aggressive cancers
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 23, 2018) – Aggressive cancers like glioblastoma and metastatic breast cancer have in common a...
Efficacy of antibody targeting Devic’s disease proven in new…
Credit: Osaka University Osaka – Neuromyelitis optica (NMO), also known as Devic's disease, is a central nervous system disorder that primarily affects the eye nerves...
NSF funds new multidisciplinary approaches to study the brain
Credit: Homewood Photography The National Science Foundation (NSF) made 19 awards to cross-disciplinary teams from across the United States to conduct innovative research focused on...
Southern Ocean drives massive bloom of tiny phytoplankton
Credit: NASA Scientists have uncovered the ocean conditions that support a massive summertime bloom of algae that spans 16 percent of the global ocean. Known...
