Use of an advanced form of the commonly used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method to analyze circulating tumor cells (CTCs) may greatly increase the ability...
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--Just as an invasive weed might need nutrient-rich soil and water to grow, many cancers rely on the right surroundings in...
New Orleans, LA - The Department of Information Technology at LSU Health New Orleans successfully competed for its first National Science Foundation grant. The $499,640...
Credit: Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Matthew McGill of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has been selected as the recipient of...
Credit: Frank Wojciechowski Raising further questions about privacy on the internet, researchers from Princeton and Stanford universities have released a study showing that a specific...
Credit: Kazan Federal University Researchers at Rice University and Kazan Federal University in Russia have found a way to extract radioactivity from water and said...
A growing body of evidence indicates that the trillions of microbes that live on and inside our bodies affect our health. Collectively, these resident microbes...
Credit: Image of Great Boiling Spring by Brian Hedlund, UNLV. Protein structure and composite image by Sergey Ovchinnikov, UW For proteins, appearance matters. These important...
The age of big data has seen a host of new techniques for analyzing large data sets. But before any of those techniques can be...
Credit: Robert Boston A new technique will help biologists tinker with genes, whether the goal is to turn cells into tiny factories churning out medicines,...
ATLANTA--Administering chemotherapy to African-American breast cancer patients prior to surgery could improve their prognosis and survival rates from the disease, according to a new study....
Credit: Courtesy University of Central Florida A UCF researcher has combined cutting-edge nanoscience with a magnetic phenomenon discovered more than 170 years ago to create...
Credit: Photo courtesy the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Scientists have discovered how a unique bacterial enzyme can blunt the...
Credit: Oxford University Press Sexual reproduction in animals has been recognized since ancient times and used in the breeding of domesticated animals for more than...
Credit: USFS Region 5 Why do some trees die in a drought and others don't? And how can we predict where trees are most likely...
