Arctic Inuit, Native American cold adaptations may originate from extinct hominids
In the Arctic, the Inuits have adapted to severe cold and a predominantly seafood diet. After the first population genomic analysis of the Greenland Inuits...
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Magnifying time reveals fundamental rogue wave instabilities of nature
Credit: Benjamin Wetzel Researchers from INRS and the FEMTO-ST Institute in France have used a novel measurement technique that magnifies time to reveal how ultrafast...
Avalanche statistics suggest Tabby’s star is near a continuous phase transition
In its search for extrasolar planets, the Kepler space telescope looks for stars whose light flux periodically dims, signaling the passing of an orbiting planet...
Bright future for energy devices
Credit: Yun Hang Hu, Michigan Tech A little sodium goes a long way. At least that's the case in carbon-based energy technology. Specifically, embedding sodium...
Illuminating cancer: Researchers invent a pH threshold sensor to improve cancer surgery
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Dec. 20, 2016 - UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have invented a transistor-like threshold sensor that can illuminate cancer tissue,...
First US babies treated in study of adult stem cell therapy for congenital heart disease
Baltimore, MD - Dec. 20, 2016 - In a first-in-children randomized clinical study, medical researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM)...
Study identifies gastric cancer biomarker and possible treatment
Scientists at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Miami, and Shantou University...
Dynamic changes, regulatory rewiring occur as Tcells respond to infection
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Scientists have used systems biology tools to map out molecular pathways and signaling circuits that come into play when the...
Studies lead to use of melanin as material for bioelectronic devices
Bioelectronics, sometimes called the next medical frontier, is a research field that combines electronics and biology to develop miniaturized implantable devices capable of altering and...
New test could detect ovarian cancer patients who are strongly responding to treatment
Scientists might be able to quickly predict how ovarian cancer patients are likely to respond to chemotherapy treatment using a simple blood test, according to...
‘Watershed’ discovery reveals plants’ medicinal secrets
EAST LANSING, Mich. - Metabolons, near-mythical clusters of enzymes, have been discovered for the first time. Using fluorescent tags and microscopy -- molecular movie technology...
Levels of DNA in blood test correlated with ovarian cancer outcomes
Levels of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) detected in a blood test are correlated with the size of ovarian cancers and can predict a patient's response...
Cancer genomics: Addressing treatment resistance in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia
In the third week of PLOS Medicine's ongoing special issue on cancer genomics, principal investigator Jules Meijerink of the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology,...
Computer models find ancient solutions to modern problems
Credit: Nate Crabtree PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University archaeologists are at the helm of new research using sophisticated computer technology to learn how past...
VLA, ALMA team up to give first look at birthplaces of most current stars
Astronomers have gotten their first look at exactly where most of today's stars were born. To do so, they used the National Science Foundation's Karl...
