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Worldwide, people are eating far too much sugar. This has negative consequences for their teeth and for their purses: seen at the global level, the...

‘Inefficient’ sailing fleet keeps oyster fishery alive

Credit: Adam Spargo Oyster stocks in a Cornish fishery are sustained thanks to "inefficient" traditional fishing methods, new research suggests. The Fal oyster fishery is...

FDA approves emergency use for multiplex Zika test

The Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an...

Researchers from TU Dresden and CiQUS obtain decacene, the largest acene synthesised ever

Credit: TU Dresden Acenes are molecules formed by the linear fusion of special carbon-based hexagons, widely known as 'benzene rings'. In spite of its structural...

RNA: A vicious pathway to cancer ?

According to the current doctrine, cancer cells develop due to mutations in genomic DNA. But could it be also caused also by faulty RNA molecules?...

£5.5 million initiative bids to boost farm livestock health in Africa

(University of Edinburgh) Vet experts at the University of Edinburgh are delivering a £5.5 million initiative to improve the health and productivity of farmed animals...

Cancer detection with sugar molecules

Credit: (Picture: Workgroup Seibel, VCH-Wiley) Galectins are a family of proteins that have become a promising source of cancer research in recent years. A representative...

Protein to stop acute cerebral hemorrhage

Credit: DGIST DGIST (President, Sang Hyuk Son) announced that a research team led by principal researcher Won Bae Jeon at DGIST's Companion Diagnostics and Medical...

New blood test may transform the way cancer is monitored and treated

Credit: Hanlee P. Ji Philadelphia, PA, August 14, 2017 - Stanford University scientists have described a new type of test that can detect genetic mutations...

Vapor harvesting gets the edge

Meadow of dancing brittle stars shows evolution at work

Credit: Kenneth McNamara Researchers have described a new species of brittle star, which are closely related to starfish, and showed how these sea creatures evolved...

Robots offer key advantages in esophageal surgery

Based on what is believed to be the largest study of its kind, Allina Health researchers say robotic assisted transhiatal esophagectomy (RATE) is effective and...

Many women diagnosed with cancer have sexual health concerns

A new review published in the European Journal of Cancer Care indicates that, in women diagnosed with cancer, concerns pertaining to sexual health are diverse,...

Improved analysis of kidney cancer

(Lund University) Researchers compare the gene expression in tumor cells from a kidney cancer patient with cells from healthy tissue to figure out in which...

Sneak peek into the ESMO 2017 press program