CLL patient treated at Penn goes into remission thanks to single CAR T cell
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - The doctors who have spent years studying the case call it "a series of fortunate events." What began as a...
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Two-pronged antibodies draw immune killers directly to cancer cells
Credit: Rader lab, The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, FL--May 30, 2018--Our immune system's arsenal of defenses usually protects us from cancer. But sometimes, cancer cells...
Space technologies to help improve environmental and living conditions at banks of the Ganges
Credit: Surya Gupta Leicester team to use satellite data to examine how changes in water availability and agricultural practises threaten the sustainability of crop yield...
Kicking the car(bon) habit better for air pollution than technology revolution
Changing our lifestyles and the way we travel could have as big - if not more of an impact on CO2 transport emissions, as electric...
Italy’s oldest olive oil discovered in peculiar pot
Credit: Polo Regionale di Siracusa per i siti e musei archeologici Museo Paolo Orsi CASTELLUCCIO, ITALY- (May 30, 2018)- Olive oil is a staple of...
OSA to launch new gold open-access journal, OSA Continuum
Credit: OSA Publishing Team WASHINGTON--The Optical Society (OSA) today announced it will begin publishing a new Open-Access journal, OSA Continuum, in September 2018. The new...
Sugarcane pest produces foam to protect itself from heat
Credit: INCT Semiochemicals and ESALQ-USP Tiny balls of froth can often be seen near the roots of plants in sugarcane plantations in Brazil during summer....
The ideal balance of 1960: Beyond poverty and before overconsumption
That our society is not doing well in terms of sustainability is well known. But how did we end up in that situation? To answer...
Powered by citizen volunteers, air pollution study gets $1.6 million
Credit: Provided/CSU CEAMS What's portable, self-contained, solar-powered, and can take precise measurements of how dirty the air is in someone's backyard? That would be some...
Magic in metal could help put excess carbon dioxide to good use
Credit: University of Delaware/Evan Krape The chunk of metal sitting on a table in Joel Rosenthal's office at the University of Delaware looks like it...
Researchers devise new way to discern what microbes eat
Credit: Christian Lott A new technique devised by researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Calgary provides a more in-depth look at...
Next generation radiation detection devices wins government a KTP top rating
Credit: Kromek A UK company, with a base in Huddersfield, is pioneering the development and manufacture of compact, technically-advanced electronic devices that detect and monitor...
Bees adjust to seasons with nutrients in flowers and ‘dirty water’
Credit: Steffan Hacker, Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE (May 29, 2018)--Researchers at Tufts University have discovered that honey bees alter their diet of nutrients according to the...
Ants provide clues to why biodiversity is higher in the tropics
Credit: Benoit Guénard It's a puzzle that has confounded biologists for centuries: the earth's tropical regions are home to an enormous variety of plant and...
Promising news from biomedicine: DNA origami more resilient than previously understood
Credit: Boxuan Shen and Veikko Linko/Aalto University The DNA origami technique is a widely used method for making complex, yet well-defined nanostructures, with applications in...
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