$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...
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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...
Genetic study uncovers evolutionary history of dingoes
Credit: Image: Lyn Watson/Australian Dingo Foundation A major study of dingo DNA has revealed dingoes most likely migrated to Australia in two separate waves via...
Native trees, shrubs provide more food for birds
Credit: Desiree Narango and Doug Tallamy/University of Delaware University of Delaware doctoral student Desiree Narango is researching trees and shrubs planted in the lawns of...
Two Princeton astrophysicists receive funding to study merging neutron stars
Credit: Adam Burrows and collaborators/Princeton/TEAMS Adam Burrows, a professor of astrophysical sciences, and David Radice, an associate research scholar, have won funding for a multifaceted...
Examining potatoes’ past could improve spuds of the future
Credit: Courtesy of Robin Buell The old adage of looking to the past to understand the future certainly applies to improving potatoes. Examining the ancestors...
