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Credit: Hamilton Health Sciences Hamilton, Ont. (August 29, 2017) - Research with more than 135,000 people across five continents has shown that a diet which...

New findings on the past and future of sea ice cover in the Arctic

Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Maciej Telesinski Temperatures in the Arctic are currently climbing two to three times faster than the global average. The result - and,...

New treatment options for type 2 diabetes

Credit: Dr Resia Pretorius, Stellenbosch University Bacteria may be responsible for more than we suspect. Especially when it comes to inflammatory diseases such as Type...

Gunnerus Prize in Sustainability awarded to Carl Folke

Credit: M. Axelsson/Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre Professor Carl Folke has been awarded the 2017 Gunnerus Award in Sustainability Science for his outstanding scientific work...

New osteoporosis treatment uses traditional Chinese herb to prevent bone loss

An herb widely used in traditional Chinese medicine might hold the key to a new osteoporosis therapy that could prevent bone loss without causing side...

Boosting immune cell memory to improve vaccines and cancer immunotherapy

Credit: UC San Diego Health Vaccines and cancer immunotherapies do essentially the same thing: They boost a person's immune system, better enabling it to fight...

Mass. General team reports first response of central nervous system tumor to CAR T-cells

In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team reports a remarkable treatment response in a patient...

New app uses smartphone selfies to screen for pancreatic cancer

Credit: Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering Pancreatic cancer has one of the worst prognoses -- with a five-year survival rate of...

Concurrent treatment with OX40- and PD1-targeted cancer immunotherapies may be detrimental

Bottom Line: Concurrent administration of the T-cell stimulating anti-OX40 antibody and the immune checkpoint inhibitor anti-PD1 antibody attenuated the effect of anti-OX40 and resulted in...

Portland State research in ancient forests show link between climate change and wildfires

(Portland, Ore.) August 28, 2017 - Portland State researchers studying centuries-old trees in South America have found a tight correlation between wildfires and a warm...

New member of NAS reveals how animals select good microbes, reject harmful ones

Credit: Kent Nishimura Margaret McFall-Ngai, professor and director of the Pacific Biosciences Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, at the University...

New technique to aid IVF embryo selection

Credit: The IVF image is a freely usable public domain image with no copyright or acknowledgment required. Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for...

Bone marrow protein may be target for improving stem cell transplants

Credit: University of Pennsylvania Bone marrow contains hematopoetic stem cells, the precursors to every blood cell type. These cells spring into action following bone marrow...

New liquid-metal membrane technology may help make hydrogen fuel cell vehicles viable

Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - While cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells offer clear advantages over the electric vehicles that are growing...

NJIT Oil spill expert assesses use of deep-sea dispersants in Deepwater Horizon cleanup