Healthy coral populations produce a surprising number of offspring
Healthy coral populations can produce up to 200 times more juvenile corals than degraded coral populations nearby, according to a new study in Conservation Letters....
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Study: New simple method determines rate at which we burn calories walking up, down, flat
Credit: SMU Locomotor Lab When military strategists plan a mission, one of many factors is the toll it takes on the Army's foot soldiers. A...
Nice ice, maybe: Study finds water-repelling surfaces ease ice removal
Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA Water-repellent surfaces and coatings could make ice removal a literal breeze by forcing ice to grow...
Researchers show the potential of precision medicine for treating rare cancers
For the first time, researchers have been able to identify effective treatments for patients with rare cancers by analyzing genes and proteins in their blood...
TGen develops processing procedures for ‘single-cell’ sequencing
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Oct. 16, 2017 -- The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) today announced grant support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) donor advised...
Therapeutic form of arsenic is a potential treatment for deadly type of brain cancer
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Oct. 17, 2017 -- From Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie, arsenic is often the poison of choice in popular whodunits. But in...
New bowel cancer drug target discovered
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have discovered a new drug target for bowel cancer that is specific to tumour cells and therefore less toxic...
Three of the most deadly cancers get critical funding for research
Credit: Fred Hutch News Services Immunotherapy for leukemia patients has been nothing short of a miracle. Now scientists hope to use that science and other...
Researchers release the brakes on the immune system
Credit: (c) Photo: Volker Lannert/Uni Bonn Many tumors possess mechanisms to avoid destruction by the immune system. For instance, they misuse the natural "brakes" in...
Breast cancer treatments today — and tomorrow (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society AMES, Iowa - The concept of "collective intelligence" is simple - it asserts that if a team performs well on...
A new compound targets energy generation, thereby killing metastatic cells
Cancer can most often be successfully treated when confined to one organ. But a greater challenge lies in treating cancer that has metastasized, or spread,...
UB spinoff company For-Robin moves one step closer to human clinical trials
Credit: Credit: Loukia Karacosta/For-Robin Inc. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Scientists from For-Robin Inc., a University at Buffalo biotechnology spinoff, have published new scientific results showing that...
Biopsy specimen found to be reliable for evaluating DLL3 expression in small cell lung cancer
Yokohama, Japan - Oct. 17, 2017 - Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) biopsy specimen was found to be reliable material for evaluating DLL3 expression; high...
Treatment based On BRCA1 level does not increase survival of stage II/III NSCLC N+ resected patients
Yokohama, Japan - Oct. 17, 2017 - New research shows that treating stage II and III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) N+ resected patients with...
JAX, Seven Bridges to build centralized data platform to advance cancer research
The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), a nonprofit biomedical research institution, and Seven Bridges, the leading biomedical data analysis company, today announced a new collaboration to build...
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