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Lugano, 7 March 2017 - ESMO, the leading European organisation for medical oncology, has announced it will take over the organisation of the Targeted Anticancer...

Lifestyle choices condition colon and rectal cancer risk more than genetics

Credit: IDIBELL Researchers of the Colorectal Cancer research group of Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), led by Dr. Víctor Moreno, and linked to the Catalan...

New research shows crude oil chemicals move and change more quickly than EPA standards

Credit: Parichehr Saranjampour, LSU The Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, lists about 65 chemicals as "toxic pollutants" under the Clean Water Act, 16 of which...

Evidence lacking to support ‘lead diet’

Credit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. - For years, parents of children with high blood lead concentrations have been advised by health experts to provide...

Inflammation in regeneration: A friend or foe?

Credit: Tokyo Institute of techonology Regeneration is an inherent property of life. However, the potential to regenerate differs across species: while fish and amphibians can...

Early deaths from childhood cancer up to 4 times more common than previously reported

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Treatments for childhood cancers have improved to the point that 5-year survival rates are over 80 percent. However, one...

Study shows US grasslands affected more by atmospheric dryness than precipitation

A new study showing dryness of the atmosphere affects U.S. grassland productivity more than rainfall could have important implications for predicting how plants will respond...

Available drug may protect ovaries and fertility from damage by chemotherapies

Loading video... Credit: NYU Langone Medical Center A drug already used to slow tumor growth may also prevent infertility caused by standard chemotherapies, according to...

Robot uses social feedback to fetch objects intelligently

Credit: Nick Dentamaro / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- If someone asks you to hand them a wrench from a table full of different sized...

Proper movements in Muslim prayer ritual can reduce lower back pain

Credit: Mohammad Khasawneh BINGHAMTON, NY- Five times a day, roughly 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide, bow, kneel, and place their foreheads to the ground in the...

Cancer ‘hot spots’ in Florida may be associated with hazardous waste sites

Credit: Justin Kelley/MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (March 6, 2017) -- Studies have shown that hazardous waste sites have the potential to adversely affect human health...

Vesicle formation findings could pave way for liquid biopsies, drug delivery devices

Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Engineers at Carnegie Mellon University and biomedical researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Magee-Womens Research Institute have established a framework..

New materials could turn water into the fuel of the future

Credit: Caltech Researchers at Caltech and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have--in just two years--nearly doubled the number of materials known to have potential...

Bubble-recoil could be used to cool microchips, even in space

Credit: UIC/ALEXANDER YARIN The bubbles that form on a heated surface create a tiny recoil when they leave it, like the kick from a gun...

Study shows how skates, rays and sharks sense electrical fields