HSE researchers uncover why morning people should not work at night
It has been known for a long time that early risers work less efficiently at night than night owls do. But researchers from the Higher...
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Internet data could boost conservation
Businesses routinely use internet data to learn about customers and increase profits - and similar techniques could be used to boost conservation. New research has...
Dr. Christine Faulkner awarded Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council
Credit: The John Innes Centre The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded JIC Project Leader Dr Christine Faulkner a Consolidator Grant to carry out research...
Frequent sauna bathing protects men against dementia
Frequent sauna bathing can reduce the risk of dementia, according to a recent study carried out at the University of Eastern Finland. In a 20-year...
What makes influential science? Telling a good story
It turns out that even in the world of scientific writing, your eighth-grade teacher was right: how you write can matter as much as what...
Early action key to reducing sea lion impacts on salmon, new study finds
Credit: US Army Corps of Engineers A new study used the same kind of models that scientists use to track disease to instead examine how...
Dr. Sakamoto explains signaling pathways in the pathogenesis of diamond blackfan anemia
Credit: Stanford University Diamond Blackfan Anemia (DBA) is a condition that is characterized by a failure of the bone marrow to produce red blood cells,...
First data on rare sarcomas in Asian patients presented at ESMO Asia in Singapore
LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 17 December, 2016 - The first data on rare sarcomas in Asian patients is presented in three studies today at the ESMO Asia 2016...
NRG-LU001 reaches patient accrual goal
Philadelphia, PA -- NRG Oncology clinical trial NRG-LU001 successfully reached its accrual goal of 168 patients. NRG-LU001: Randomized Phase II Trial of Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy with...
AMP issues joint guideline to standardize interpretation and reporting of sequence variants in cancer
BETHESDA, MD. -- December 16, 2016 -- The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), the premier global, non-profit molecular diagnostics professional society, today published guideline recommendation..
Fundamental solid state phenomenon unraveled
Credit: Dr. Ulrich Tutsch Whether water freezes to ice, iron is demagnetized or a material becomes superconducting - for physicists there is always a phase...
Method enables machine learning from unwieldy data sets
When data sets get too big, sometimes the only way to do anything useful with them is to extract much smaller subsets and analyze those...
Rice, Baylor team sets new mark for ‘deep learning’
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 16, 2016) - Neuroscience and artificial intelligence experts from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have taken...
New bioinformatics tool tests methods for finding mutant genes that ‘drive’ cancer
In their search for new ways to treat cancer, many scientists are using a high-tech process called genome sequencing to hunt for genetic mutations that...
Quantifying radiation damage in SAXS experiments
Credit: Brooks-Bartlett et al Biological small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) is an experimental technique that provides low-resolution structural information on macromolecules. The surge of popular..
