Patient self checks are critical to avoid potentially deadly melanoma recurrence
CHICAGO ( February 8, 2017): Recurrences of early stage (stage II) melanoma are more often detected by patients and their physicians than by routine imaging...
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Collapsed chloroplasts are targeted in self-eating process
Credit: Masanori Izumi Researchers at Tohoku University have identified a previously uncharacterized type of autophagy, during which an autophagic process termed chlorophagy removes collapsed chlor..
Carnivores more seriously threatened by roads than previously acknowledged
Credit: raincarnation40 / Pixabay.com / CC0 Public Domain (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.de) Leipzig/Halle (Saale)/Porto. The effects of roads on carnivores have obviously ..
Bright spots of resilience to climate disturbance
Credit: Jennifer O'Leary Climate-driven disturbances are having profound impacts on coastal ecosystems, with many crucial habitat-forming species in sharp decline. However, among these degraded ..
UA hosts conference on science diplomacy and policy
Join renowned scientists, engineers, policy advisers and public health experts at "Science Diplomacy and Policy with Focus on the Americas," a conference Feb. 22-24, 2017,...
Office-based test developed to identify amyloidosis-related heart failure
(Boston)--Boston researchers have developed a new diagnostic test that may help doctors identify patients with a condition called cardiac amyloidosis. The findings appear in the...
Study provides new insight into different forms of heart failure
Using a novel noninvasive technique, a team of researchers led by a professor at the University of Texas Arlington's College of Nursing and Health Innovation...
Large groups of photons on demand — an equivalent of photonic ‘integrated circuit’
Credit: Source: UW Physics, Mateusz Mazelanik Holographic atomic memory, invented and constructed by physicists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, is...
Hidden lakes drain below West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
Credit: Ben Smith/University of Washington Thwaites Glacier on the edge of West Antarctica is one of the planet's fastest-moving glaciers. Research shows that it is...
How to decrease the mass of aircrafts
Credit: Aleksander Babkin Members of the Department of Chemistry of Lomonosov Moscow State University have created unique polymer matrices for polymer composites based on novel...
Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation to bestow annual awards
FAIRFAX, VA (Feb. 8, 2017) -- Riad Salem, M.D., MBA, FSIR, will receive the Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation Leaders in Innovation Award on March...
Mayo Clinic researchers quantify immune cells associated with future breast cancer risk
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Researchers from Mayo Clinic have quantified the numbers of various types of immune cells associated with the risk of developing breast cancer....
NIH study reveals how melanoma spreads
Cancerous tumors are voracious. Once they have consumed all the oxygen and nutrients in the original tumor site, the cancer cells travel to other parts...
Pioneering chip extends sensors’ battery life
Credit: University of Bristol A low-cost chip that enables batteries in sensors to last longer, in some cases by over ten times, has been developed...
UMass Amherst boosts deep learning research with powerful new GPU cluster
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - With a new cluster of specialized graphics processing units (GPUs) now installed, the University of Massachusetts Amherst is poised...
