UC researchers use gold coating to control luminescence of nanowires
Credit: Andrew Higley/UC Creative Services In electronics, the race for smaller is huge. Physicists at the University of Cincinnati are working to harness the power...
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Preventing lead spread
Credit: Courtesy: Biswas Lab While lead pipes were banned decades ago, they still supply millions of American households daily with drinking water amid risks of...
Genetic profile of treatment-resistant lung cancer more variable than previously thought
Credit: Zofia Piotrowska, M.D. SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 2017--The genetic mutations underlying treatment resistance in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are more complex and dynamic...
Proton therapy offers new treatment possibility for recurrent lung cancer
Credit: Jennifer Ho, M.D. SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 2017--A new study offers hope for patients with recurrent lung cancer, who historically have been considered ineligible...
SBRT offers curative option for lung cancer patients age 80 and older
Credit: Richard J. Cassidy III, MD SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 2017--Patients in their 80s and 90s who have early stage lung cancer but cannot undergo...
Racial disparities persist in treatment and survival of early stage lung cancer
Credit: Andrew M. Farach, MD SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 2017--Analysis of the largest American cancer database indicates that racial disparities persist in the treatment and...
New plant research solves a colorful mystery
Credit: The John Innes Centre Research led by scientists at the John Innes Centre has solved a long-standing mystery by deducing how and why strange...
PETA science group promotes animal-free science at society of toxicology conference
Baltimore -- The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. is presenting two posters on animal-free methods for testing inhalation toxicity at the 56th annual Society of...
Prevention and prediction: Understanding how lung cancer progresses
PHILADELPHIA - Treating the brain with a preventative course of radiation may help Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) patients - whose tumors often spread to...
Biomarker blood test shows cancer recurrence months before CT scans
Credit: Chimbu Chinniah SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 2017--Results from a prospective clinical trial showed that a blood test looking at specific biomarkers was able to...
Combination of radiation and immune checkpoint therapy holds potential for lung cancer
Credit: Kamran Ahmed, M.D. SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 2017--An emerging approach for cancer treatment seeks to combine radiation therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICPIs) to...
The Graphene 2017 Conference connects Barcelona with the international graphene-based industry
This past February, Graphene shone at the Mobile World Congress 2017, exhibiting real prototypes and demonstrations to more than 108.000 visitors by different academic institutions...
To kill ticks, target their animal hosts
Annapolis, MD; March 10, 2017--An emerging tool in the fight against tick-borne disease, host-targeted bait boxes employ a sneaky trick: turning some of ticks' favorite...
Outwitting climate change with a plant ‘dimmer’?
Credit: Photo: Regnault/ TUM Plants possess molecular mechanisms that prevent them from blooming in winter. Once the cold of win-ter has passed, they are deactivated....
Multi-year study finds ‘hotspots’ of ammonia over world’s major agricultural areas
Credit: Juying Warner/GRL The first global, long-term satellite study of airborne ammonia gas has revealed "hotspots" of the pollutant over four of the world's most...
