The intestine has a reservoir of stem cells that are resistant to chemotherapy
Credit: Franscisco Barriga, IRB Barcelona The intestine has a high rate of cellular regeneration due to the wear and tear originated by its function degrading...
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Detect. Lock on. Intercept. The remarkable hunting ability of the robber fly
Loading video... Credit: Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido Lab, University of Cambridge A small fly the size of a grain of rice could be the Top Gun of...
Launchpad Leicestar: Multi-million pound investment gives ‘space city’ project lift-off
Credit: University of Leicester Academic leaders at the University of Leicester have hailed the Government's announcement of multi-million pound investment in space science and Earth...
OU professor receives NSF Early CAREER Award
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma Gallogly College of Engineering professor, Steven P. Crossley, is the recipient of a five-year, National Science Foundation...
Opioids before surgery means higher costs, more problems afterward, U-M study finds
Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, MI - Surgery patients often go home from the hospital with a prescription for painkillers to take as they...
Six weeks left to register for The International Liver CongressTM 2017
The 52nd Annual Congress of The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), is being held from 19-23 April, at the RAI Congress...
FRED database gathers root traits to advance understanding of below-ground plant ecology
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Dept. of Energy March 9, 2017--Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) scientists have released a new global, centralized database of plant root...
Guiding light: Sandia creates 3-D metasurfaces with optical possibilities
Credit: (Illustration courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Metamaterials don't exist in nature, but their ability to make ultra-thin lenses and ultra-efficient cell...
Using nature to build nanomachines
Credit: Osaka University Flagella are tiny rotary motors that move bacteria. A research team led by Keiichi Namba, professor at Osaka University has used electron...
Could fast radio bursts be powering alien probes?
Credit: M. Weiss/CfA The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has looked for many different signs of alien life, from radio broadcasts to laser flashes, without success....
Sagan Award goes to committee chaired by Carnegie’s Alan Dressler
Credit: Carnegie Institution for Science Pasadena, CA--Over 20 years ago, Carnegie astronomer emeritus Alan Dressler chaired the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)...
Free lung-cancer screening in the Augusta area finds more than double the cancer rate of previous screenings
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 9, 2017) - The first year of free lung cancer screening in the Augusta, Georgia area found more than...
Songs that make robots cry
Credit: Osaka University Music, more than any art, is a beautiful mix of science and emotion. It follows a set of patterns almost mathematically to...
Innovate Indiana Fund invests in early-stage payment-fraud analytics company
INDIANAPOLIS -- A high-tech company that detects payment-card fraud using machine learning and data analytics will be able to launch a product for merchants later...
NASA examines the soaking from ex-tropical Cyclone Enawo exiting Madagascar
Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce NASA's Aqua satellite observed Ex-Tropical Cyclone Enawo leaving Madagascar, while rainfall data from the Global Precipitation Measuremen..
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