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Credit: Young et al./Biophysical Journal 2017 A minimally invasive, fiber-optic technique that accurately measures the passive stretch and twitch contraction of living muscle tissue could...

Credit: University of Cincinnati CINCINNATI--Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine have discovered a new potential strategy to personalize therapy for brain...

Credit: Afsheen Banisadr and Pranjali Beri How strongly tumor cells adhere to the surrounding tissue could indicate the likelihood that cancer will spread to other...

Credit: Justin Kelley/MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (Feb. 28, 2017) -- Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common form of liver cancer, but treatment options are limited...

Implementation of a new nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy platform will provide professors Nicolas Doucet and Steven LaPlante of Centre INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier with a powerful...

Credit: Andrius Pasukonis In general, male poison frogs of the species Allobates femoralis are observed as very caring and attentive fathers. Eva Ringler and her...

Credit: NeuroVision Imaging LLC SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - NeuroVision Imaging LLC ("NeuroVision") today announced its participation in a new substudy with investigators at the University of...

After three rounds of competition -- one of which involved a public vote -- a software tool developed by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research...

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Tens of millions of Americans with lung disease use metered-dose inhalers each day, and new studies by Rice University electrical engineers...

ATLANTA - February 28, 2017 - A new study finds that compared to people born around 1950, when colorectal cancer risk was lowest, those born...

DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma) is a rare malignant cerebral tumour in children. It has only a 1% 5-year survival rate, amongst other things because...

Credit: Margherita De Marzio, Gaia Camisasca, Maria Martin Conde, Mauro Rovere and Paola Gallo WASHINGTON, D.C., February 28, 2017 -- There are few things more...

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 28, 2017 -- The sight of propeller-like rotating blades positioned high up the pole of a tall horizontal-axis wind turbine (HAWT) may...

Credit: Brown et al. WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 28, 2017 -- Limitations of the piezoelectric array technologies conventionally used for ultrasonics inspired a group of University...

Credit: UGA Athens, Ga. - Zika virus could be transmitted by more mosquito species than those currently known, according to a new predictive model created...