Cancer cells send out ‘drones’ to battle immune system from afar
Credit: The labs of Wei Guo, PhD, and Xiaowei Xu, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania. PHILADELPHIA - Cancer cells are more than a lump of...
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Could edible chemotherapy encased in milk particles someday end infusions?
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences You can't eat chemotherapy. That's because your digestive system breaks down the...
Scientists create biodegradable, paper-based biobatteries
Credit: Seokheun 'Sean' Choi BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - The batteries of the future may be made out of paper. Researchers at Binghamton University, State University at...
EPA could change how it calculates the financial effects of regulations
The way that the Environmental Protections Agency determines the costs and benefits of regulations is under scrutiny and could soon change, according to an article...
Earth now and 2.5 billion years ago: New study of air helps understanding both
Sulfur isotope has helped reveal surprising information about both the origins of life on Earth and modern sources of air pollution in China, according to...
Mission: Possible — mapping dangerous terrain
Ensuring military forces have up-to-date information about a potentially hostile region offers obvious advantages, but current methods for doing that - especially along shorelines, where...
Expedition probes ocean’s smallest organisms for climate answers
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Katy Mersmann Satellite images of phytoplankton blooms on the surface of the ocean often dazzle with their diverse colors, shades...
My host is my castle
Credit: Danny Haelewaters, Harvard University, The Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Despite researchers having little fondness for them, a large fraction of the world's...
Surviving large carnivores have far-reaching impact
Credit: Belize Jaguar Project/Virginia Tech Anywhere large-bodied mammalian carnivore species are present, other, smaller carnivores are less likely to occur, according to an international team...
The advances of aging research to be presented at the Basel Life Congress
Credit: Insilico Medicine Monday, August 6, 2018, Rockville, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company specializing in the application of next-generation artificial intelligence for drug...
BioOne announces nonprofit platform partnership with SPIE
WASHINGTON, DC - July 31, 2018 : BioOne (about.BioOne.org), the nonprofit publisher of more than 200 journals from 150 scientific societies and independent presses, today...
New NYUAD research finds 3D printers offer alternate method to create microfluidic probes
Credit: NYU Abu Dhabi August 8, 2018, Abu Dhabi: NYU Abu Dhabi Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering Mohammad Qasaimeh, and NYU Abu Dhabi...
Is your lung cancer really ROS1-negative?
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Drugs like crizotinib are used to treat patients with ROS1-positive lung cancer. But which patients are ROS1-positive? A University...
SwRI, UTSA researchers design minimally invasive medicinal implant
SAN ANTONIO -- Aug.8, 2018 -- Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) are developing a 3D printed implant...
Cleveland Clinic researchers receive $4.7 million NIH grant to prevent cancer-associated thrombosis
Credit: Cleveland Clinic Aug. 8, 2018, Cleveland: The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, awarded a $4.7...