Why high-dose vitamin C kills cancer cells
Vitamin C has a patchy history as a cancer therapy, but researchers at the University of Iowa believe that is because it has often been...
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Prostate cancer researchers find genetic fingerprint identifying how, when disease spreads
Loading video... Credit: UHN (TORONTO, Canada - Jan. 9, 2017) - Canadian prostate cancer researchers have discovered the genetic fingerprint that explains why up to...
New study: What do health plan deductibles really mean for people with chronic illness?
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- For tens of millions of Americans, the start of a new year means the counter has gone back to zero on...
‘Weekend warriors’ have lower risk of death from cancer, cardiovascular disease
The finding suggests that less frequent bouts of activity, which might fit more easily into a busy lifestyle, offer significant health benefits, even in the...
New insights into mechanisms of breast cancer development and resistance to therapy
Why does breast cancer develop and how come certain patients are resistant to established therapies? Researchers from the University of Basel have gained new insights...
How on earth does geotagging work?
Credit: John Ulan EDMONTON (Monday, January 9, 2017)--In an increasingly digital world, we don't always consider where on earth the information we find online comes...
For chemicals, mega is out and bio is in
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Ramon Gonzalez sees flares burning methane from the stacks above Houston's refineries and thinks, "What a waste." He believes that methane...
Illinois team advances GaN-on-Silicon for scalable high electron mobility transistors
Credit: University of Illinois A team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has advanced gallium nitride (GaN)-on-silicon transistor technology by optimizing the...
Researchers create practical and versatile microscopic optomechanical device
Credit: Thiago P. Mayer Alegre, University of Campinas WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a new type of optomechanical device that uses a microscopic silicon disk...
Study: Some catalysts contribute their own oxygen for reactions
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Chemical reactions that release oxygen in the presence of a catalyst, known as oxygen-evolution reactions, are a crucial part of chemical energy...
The legal battle over CRISPR (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, 2017 -- CRISPR could potentially engineer super crops, make designer animal models for research and even snip...
The science of baby’s first sight
Credit: UNC School of Medicine CHAPEL HILL, NC - When a newborn opens her eyes, she does not see well at all. You, the parent,...
Breakthrough in MS treatment
Credit: The Neuro In separate clinical trials, a drug called ocrelizumab has been shown to reduce new attacks in patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis...
An ecological invasion mimics a drunken walk
A theory that uses the mathematics of a drunken walk describes ecological invasions better than waves, according to Tim Reluga, associate professor of mathematics and...
Hidden seeds reveal Canary Islands history
(Linköping University) Have you tried the national dish gofio while on holiday on the Canary Islands? If so, you have eaten the same food as...
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