Scientists discover surprising immune cell activity that may be limiting immunotherapy
ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- Researchers have uncovered a surprising process within a key immune cell that may help explain the limitations of immunotherapy as a...
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Tourassi named top scientist at ORNL’s annual Awards night
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 28, 2017 -- Georgia Tourassi of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Computing and...
UA Cancer Center research team explores anti-breast cancer properties of soy
Credit: University of Arizona Cancer Center A University of Arizona Cancer Center research team is engaged in a series of studies to investigate how genistein,...
Rousing masses to fight cancer with open source machine learning
Credit: Georgia Tech / McDonald lab Here's an open invitation to steal. It goes out to cancer fighters and tempts them with a new program...
$12.5 million grant allows MUSC and SCSU to team up to tackle health disparities
Credit: Sarah Pack Marvella Ford missed out on a fundamental part of childhood: having grandparents to spoil and take care of her. They all died...
Helping smokers quit: Payments, personalized support can work
BOSTON - Money can be more powerful than nicotine, as a new study found that smokers who received financial incentives, in addition to personalized support,...
3-D ‘scaffold’ map to help the search for new cancer treatments
Credit: Image: Onisha Patel/Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Researchers have produced the first three-dimensional (3D) map of a molecular 'scaffold' called SgK223, known to play...
Minorities less likely to have breast reconstruction, but not for the reason many think
PHILADELPHIA - Minority women are far less likely to undergo breast reconstruction than white women, even if they live in the same area and have...
Important mechanism of epigenetic gene regulation identified
DNA contains the blueprint of an entire organism. Based on the information in this blueprint, every cell knows what it must become and what function...
LAunch of new Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC) global charter
LISBON, Portugal, 30 October 2017 - The Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC) Global Alliance has launched the ABC Global Charter, a bold new initiative that sets...
Just-in-time 3-D implants set to transform tumor surgery
Credit: RMIT University/Stryker A major new Australian research project using 3D implants and robotic surgery is set to radically advance the way physicians surgically treat...
Sight unseen
A study led by scientists from Harvard Medical School reveals "hidden" variability in how tumor cells are affected by anticancer drugs, offering new insights on...
University of Delaware’s Thomas Epps named American Physical Society Fellow
Credit: Evan Krape/University of Delaware Thomas H. Epps, III, the Thomas & Kipp Gutshall Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and a...
Spooky conservation: Saving endangered species over our dead bodies
Credit: Jodie Buller The secret to the survival of critically endangered wildlife could lie beyond the grave, according to a University of Queensland researcher. The...
Graphene enables high-speed electronics on flexible materials
Credit: Boid - Product Design Studio, Gothenburg/Chalmers University of Technology Terahertz radiation has a wide range of uses and can occur in everything from radio...
