Cedars-Sinai Investigator Awarded grant to study esophageal cancer
Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES (March 15, 2018) -- Dechen Lin, PhD, a research scientist in the Division of Hematology and Oncology in the Cedars-Sinai Department...
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House of Medicine opens the door to addiction prevention & treatment
Two landmark developments in medicine pave the way for quality medical care to address America's largest and most costly preventable health problem - unhealthy substance...
New educational app helps support GvHD diagnosis and scoring after HCT
Credit: © EBMT Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation (HCT) is a curative and established treatment approach for patients with haematological malignancies such as leukaemia. However, graft-v..
New research sheds light on underlying cause of brain injury in stroke
Credit: Professor Robert Fern New research shows how the novel drug QNZ-46 can help to lessen the effects of excess release of glutamate in the...
Medicinal cannabis is safe and effective — it’s time to reboot research
Amsterdam, March 15, 2018 -- Medicinal cannabis is safe and effective in pain relief, and researchers are calling for the treatment to be properly established...
The brain puts the memories warehouse in order while we sleep
During the hours of sleep the memory performs a cleaning shift. A study led by a Spanish scientist at the University of Cambridge reveals that...
When natural disaster strikes, can insects and other invertebrates recover?
Credit: Jeff Thrasher Annapolis, MD; March 15, 2018 -- After a 100-year flood struck south central Oklahoma in 2015, a study of the insects, arthropods,...
RE: Thinking the robot/Robotic Futures: Fresh Perspectives/Panel Discussion on March 22, 2018
Credit: 2018 Institute Of Industrial Science, the University Of Tokyo We are on the cusp of the robotics revolution: new technologies promise a societal shift...
Epigenetic analysis: Giving the right name to a tumor
The "Hopp Children's Cancer Center at the NCT Heidelberg" (KiTZ) is a joint institution of Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) and the German Cancer Research Center...
Scientists illuminate mechanism at play in learning
Credit: OIST The process we call learning is in fact a well-orchestrated symphony of thousands of molecular reactions, but the exact interplay between these reactions...
Inspired by insects: New anti-collision technology could help create safer driverless cars
Swarming insects are the inspiration behind a global research project that aims to create a pioneering new collision avoidance system to enhance the safety of...
Large-scale climatic warming could increase persistent haze in Beijing
Credit: LIN PEI Over the past decades, Beijing, the capital city of China, has encountered increasingly frequent persistent haze events (PHEs). Severe PHEs not only...
A small protein with many applications
Credit: Rasmus Kjeldsen Jensen and Janus Asbjørn Schatz-Jakobsen, Aarhus University Researchers from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and from the Department of Biomedicine...
Metal-organic frameworks cut energy consumption of petrochemicals
Credit: K.V. Agrawal/EPFL In the chemical and the petrochemical industries, separating molecules in an energy-efficient way is one of the most important challenges. Overall, the...
Improved capture of cancer cells in blood could help track disease
Credit: Michael Poellmann MADISON, Wis. - Tumor cells circulating throughout the body in blood vessels have long been feared as harbingers of metastasizing cancer -...
