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Credit: UNIST UNIST has taken a major step toward laying the technical groundwork for developing next-generation high-intensity accelerators by providing a new advanced theoretical tool...

Breast cancer mortality rates decline in many countries

SAN ANTONIO -- Breast cancer mortality rates continue to decline in many nations, but a review of mortality trends in 47 countries around the world...

Untreated effects of breast cancer care increase depression and anxiety among survivors

SAN ANTONIO - Treatment advances have increased the five-year survival rate for breast cancer to 90 percent. But, for many of the 2.8 million survivors...

Penn study begins to shed light on racial disparities of cancer-causing genetic mutations

PHILADELPHIA -- Most studies reporting the prevalence of breast- and ovarian-cancer causing genes have been conducted with Caucasian women, leaving questions about the role that...

Exploring the evolutionary history of the immune system

The enzyme known as ALOX15 plays a crucial role in the production of anti-inflammatory and pro-resolving lipid mediators. As mammals have evolved, this enzyme has...

New book on The Cytoskeleton from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

Credit: The specimen was prepared and imaged by Rosmarie Suetterlin and Cora-Ann Schoenenberger at the Maurice E. Muller Institute for Structural Biology (Ueli Aebi, head),...

Study finds capuchin monkeys produce sharp stone flakes similar to tools

In addition to using rocks for various purposes, such as cracking open a seed or fruit to extract the edible part, the Bearded or Black-Striped...

UH receives $66 million in-kind software grant from Siemens PLM Software

The University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design today announced it has received an in-kind software grant from Siemens PLM Software,...

Martian mountains, manmade earthquake detection and more from the U at AGU

University of Utah researchers will be among the approximately 24,000 scientists convening in San Francisco for the annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union...

Hydrogen from sunlight — but as a dark reaction

The storage of photogenerated electric energy and its release on demand are still among the main obstacles in artificial photosynthesis. One of the most promising,...

Lyncean Technologies receives $650,000 in Series A funding

Lyncean Technologies, Inc., manufacturer of the Lyncean Compact Light Source, today announced the successful raising of $650,000 in a Series A funding round. The funding...

Older women with breast cancer report better cosmetic satisfaction with less radiation, less surgery

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center In the first study evaluating patient-reported cosmetic outcomes in a population-based cohort of older women with breast cancer, The University...

Federal funds help Virginia increase wetland benefits

Credit: © D. Malmquist/VIMS. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced two major grants designed to help Virginia protect and restore its wetlands. These watery...

Cow gene study shows why most clones fail

Credit: Alison Van Eenennaam, UC Davis Department of Animal Science It has been 20 years since Dolly the sheep was successfully cloned in Scotland, but...

Ancient enzyme morphed shape to carry out new functions in humans