Blood test provides clues to bladder cancer patients’ prognoses
New research indicates that about one-quarter of patients with bladder cancer treated with radical surgery on curative intent have detectable levels of tumour cells circulating...
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Epstein-Barr virus and cancer: New tricks from an old dog
After an infection with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the virus persists in the body throughout a person's lifetime, usually without causing any symptoms. About one...
Brian Luke awarded a Heisenberg Professorship
Brian Luke, a Group Leader at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz, has been awarded a prestigious Heisenberg Professorship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft...
Researchers develop first reliable technique to track web users across browsers
For good or ill, what users do on the web is tracked. Banks track users as an authentication technique, to offer their customers enhanced security...
USC computer scientist to explain socially intelligent robots on Feb. 17
WHAT: A University of Southern California computer scientist will present her research on socially assistive robots on Friday, Feb. 17 at the annual meeting of...
Accelerated chlorophyll reaction in microdroplets to reveal secret of photosynthesis
Credit: DGIST DGIST announced that the research team of the fellow Hong-Gil Nam and the research team of Professor Richard N. Zere of Stanford University...
New ‘blood biopsies’ with experimental device may improve cancer diagnosis and follow-up
Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES (Feb. 13, 2017) - A team of investigators from Cedars-Sinai and UCLA is using a new blood-analysis technique and tiny experimental...
New software will standardize data collection for great white sharks
Credit: Sara Andreotti, Identifin The lack of a standardized procedure for collecting data about elusive and hard to find species like the great white shark...
Organo-metal compound seen killing cancer cells from inside
Credit: University of Warwick Cancer cells seen to be targeted and killed from the inside with metal-based compound discovered by the University of Warwick The...
Will androids dream of quantum sheep?
Credit: Mile Gu and Jayne Thompson / Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore The word 'replicant' evokes thoughts of a sci-fi world where society has replaced...
A new platform to study graphene’s electronic properties
Credit: IBS Graphene's unusual electronic structure enables this extraordinary material to break many records of strength, electricity and heat conduction. Physicists at the Center for...
Russian scientists created a new technology for varicose treatment
Credit: Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University Researchers of the Center for Advanced Studies of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) in collaboration...
Next-gen dark matter detector in a race to finish line
Credit: Henrique Araújo /Imperial College London The race is on to build the most sensitive U.S.-based experiment designed to directly detect dark matter particles. Department...
Pioneering partnership model in the McMaster innovation ecosystem
Credit: Jin Lee Hamilton, Ont., Canada. -- McMaster University's innovative experimental co-location between an academic research centre and a rapidly growing startup company has begun...
New research shows that proteins are ‘virtually’ knotted
Credit: University of Bristol Many of the processes essential to life involve proteins - long molecules which 'fold' into three-dimensional shapes allowing them to perform...
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