To bloom or not to bloom: That is the question
Credit: IBS When spring is approaching, how do plants decide that it is time to flower? A team of plant scientists led by KWAK June...
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Tortoise electrons trying to catch up with hare photons give graphene its conductivity
How electrons interact with other electrons at quantum scale in graphene affects how quickly they travel in the material, leading to its high conductivity. Now,...
Experts panel created to identify emerging technologies of greatest help to Africa
Credit: Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University's Calestous Juma will co-chair a new High Level African Panel on Emerging Technologies, created to identify and foster appropriate...
New carbenoid species yields unexpected reactivity
Credit: © ICIQ / © Wiley-VCH To day, chemists synthesize cyclopropanes using pure E or Z alkenes as starting materials and usually, dangerous, unstable reagents...
Many muons: Imaging the underground with help from the cosmos
Credit: PNNL Alain Bonneville, a geophysicist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will present details on the muon detector and the comparative field tests at the...
Pacific Northwest researchers to play key role in new Manufacturing USA Institute
Credit: PNNL RICHLAND, Wash. - Getting more production output from a chemical operation or performing the same process more efficiently in a much smaller footprint...
Huntsman Cancer Institute leads international colorectal study
SALT LAKE CITY - Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah will head an international study to find out how lifestyle and other...
Sirt1 regulates proliferation and regeneration of glial progenitor cells after injury
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON - Developing brains in newborns have a sizable pool of a certain type of immature progenitor cell that can...
Newly identified pathway in mitochondria fuels tumor progression across cancer types
PHILADELPHIA --(Dec. 19, 2016)-- Scientists at The Wistar Institute have identified a novel protein pathway across several types of cancer that controls how tumor cells...
Above and beyond megathrusts: Draining pore-fluids dampens tremors
Credit: Nature Communications In the Nankai subduction zone, Japan, non-volcanic deep tremors occur down-dip of the megathrust seismogenic zone, and are observed to coincide temporally...
Genetic biomarker IDs patients with increased risk for heart damage by anthracycline chemo
Bottom Line: Among women with breast cancer who received a type of chemotherapy called an anthracycline, those who had a certain genetic biomarker had a...
Tumor DNA in blood may serve as prognostic marker of pancreatic cancer
Bottom Line: The presence of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) isolated from blood samples of patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma was associated with poor outcomes. Journal in...
Routine blood test predicts how long cancer patients will survive
LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 17 December, 2016 - A routine blood test can predict how long cancer patients in palliative care will survive, researchers report at the ESMO...
Immunotherapy with pembrolizumab deemed cost-effective for advanced melanoma in Hong Kong
LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 17 December, 2016 - Immunotherapy with pembrolizumab has been deemed a cost-effective first line treatment for advanced melanoma patients in Hong Kong, researchers report...
Ribociclib improves progression-free survival in Asian women with advanced breast cancer
LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 17 December, 2016 - Ribociclib significantly improves progression-free survival in Asian women with advanced breast cancer, according to a sub-analysis of the MONALEESA-2 trial...
