A ‘dirty bomb’ battles cancer metastasis
CHICAGO --- The death of her mother from ovarian cancer when Dr. Sui Huang was only 12 led to her lifelong scientific pursuit and a...
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NIH, Northwestern scientists develop potential new approach to stop cancer metastasis
Researchers have identified a compound that blocks the spread of pancreatic and other cancers in various animal models. When cancer spreads from one part of...
Reducing cholesterol could enhance T-cell cancer immunotherapy
CLEVELAND - Cleveland Clinic researchers have demonstrated for the first time that lowering blood cholesterol levels could enhance the success of a specific type of...
Under certain conditions, bacterial signals set the stage for leukemia
A new study by researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine shows that bacterial signals are crucial to the development of a precursor condition to...
Cellular valve structure opens up potential novel therapies
Credit: Raimund Dutzler, UZH Human cells are enclosed by membranes and are in osmotic equilibrium with their environment. If the concentration of solute molecules (osmolarity)...
Mayo discovery means individualized ovarian, brain cancer therapies
ROCHESTER, Minn. - Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered that a molecular communication pathway - thought to be defective in cancer - is a key player...
New nuclear RNA retention activity discovered
Credit: Toomas Silla Gene expression involves mRNA transport from its place of synthesis to the cytoplasm where protein translation occurs. However, many non-coding RNA species...
A simple software error corrected: bittersweet chloroplast genome becomes the model
Credit: Péter Poczai The first complete plastome nucleotide sequence was published in 1986 for tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) of the nightshade family (Solanaceae). This economically...
Less water, same Texas cotton
Credit: James Bordovsky Plants need water--but what about when it's running low? Is it possible to use less water and still have healthy crops? In...
Mechanism underlying malformation associated with severe epilepsy is revealed
Credit: Fábio Rogerio One of the most frequent causes of drug-resistant epilepsy, considered a difficult disease to control, is a brain malformation known as focal...
UTHealth researcher reveals results of study on emergency breathing tubes
Credit: PHOTO CREDIT Dwight Andrews, UTHealth In a landmark study, researchers found that patients treated with paramedic oxygen delivery using a newer, more flexible laryngeal...
THE IADR/AADR publish JDR special issue on head and neck cancer
Alexandria, VA, USA - The International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR) have published a special issue in the Journal of Dental Research (JDR)...
Global 2 degrees C rise doubles population exposed to multiple climate risks compared to 1.5 degrees C
New research identifying climate vulnerability hotspots has found that the number of people affected by multiple climate change risks could double if the global temperature...
Recent trends of marriage in Iran
Data about marriages in Iran points to the declining number of formal (arranged) marriages in recent decades despite strong cultural and religious traditions favoring such...
World’s strongest bio-material outperforms steel and spider silk
Credit: Credit: Nitesh Mittal, KTH Stockholm At DESY's X-ray light source PETRA III, a team led by Swedish researchers has produced the strongest bio-material that...
