Researchers identify the most accurate risk prediction models for selecting whom to screen
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Study hints at new target to improve immune therapy in triple-negative breast cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Therapies that recruit the immune system to attack tumors are revolutionizing cancer care. Among these successful immunotherapies is a...
Uncertainty in long-run economic growth likely points toward greater emissions, climate change costs
URBANA, Ill. - For scientists, estimating the extent of and cost of damages from climate change over the next 100 years is a challenging task....
Early BPA exposure may influence cardiac function, according to new study in neonatal rats
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON - (May 14, 2018) - More than 8 million pounds of bisphenol A (BPA) is produced each year and...
Hungry, hungry hippos
The average hippo weighs more than 3,000 pounds and consumes about 100 pounds of vegetation daily. This naturally results in large quantities of dung being...
Altered body odor indicates malaria even if microscope doesn’t
Credit: Jim Gathany / CDC Typhoid Mary may have infected a hundred or more people, but asymptomatic carriers of malaria infect far more people every...
Deadly cancers show early, detectable differences from benign tumors
DURHAM, N.C. - Do metastatic cancer tumors "break bad" or are they "born bad"? This question is an essential mystery in cancer early detection and...
Simple equation directs creation of clean-energy catalysts
New guidelines laid down by Nebraska and Chinese researchers could steer the design of less costly, more efficient catalysts geared toward revving up the production...
Researcher studies importance of synchrony in ecological systems such as food webs
Credit: University of Kansas LAWRENCE -- A recent $426,609, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation will enable a new investigation of how populations in...
Scientists find missing factor in gene activation
Credit: Kadonaga Lab, UC San Diego Until human genes are activated, they are blocked by structures known as nucleosomes, components that serve to package DNA...
A new drug shows preclinical efficacy in Rett syndrome
Credit: IDIBELL A new article published in the Cell Reports describes how a new drug is able to reduce the symptoms and activate the dormant...
Study shows how bacteria guide electron flow for efficient energy generation
Credit: Robert Gennis CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Biochemists at the University of Illinois have isolated a protein supercomplex from a bacterial membrane that, like a battery,...
Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy in long-term survivors of childhood cancer
Bottom Line: A new study assesses chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy in 121 long-term survivors of childhood cancer to detail clinical, functional, neurophysiological and patient-reported outc..
UTA researcher patents ‘roach motel’ for cancer
Credit: UTA The University of Texas at Arlington has successfully patented in Europe an implantable medical device that attracts and kills circulating cancer cells that...
Study reveals that many oncologists recommend medical marijuana clinically despite not feeling sufficiently knowledgeable to do so
While a wide majority of oncologists do not feel informed enough about medical marijuana's utility to make clinical recommendations, most do in fact conduct discussions...
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