Radiation therapy vital to treating brain tumors, but it exacts a toll
Radiation therapy (RT) using high-energy particles, like x-rays or electron beams, is a common and critical component in successfully treating patients with brain tumors, but...
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Finnish demo plant produces renewable fuel from carbon dioxide captured from the air
PRESS RELEASE: Finnish demo plant produces renewable fuel from carbon dioxide captured from the air The unique Soletair demo plant developed by VTT Technical Research...
Mussels add muscle to biocompatible fibers
Credit: Hartgerink Research Group/Rice University Rice University chemists can thank the mussel for putting the muscle into their new macroscale scaffold fibers. The Rice lab...
Prednisone may improve effectiveness of AAV-based gene therapy by reducing immune response
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 9, 2017--A new study of gene transfer using adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene delivery into skeletal...
Parasitic nematodes that cause greatest agricultural damage abandoned sex
Credit: Etienne G. J. Danchin and colleagues The nematode worms that cause the world's most devastating crop losses have given up on sexual reproduction and...
Koch Institute to hold 16th annual symposium: Convergence of Science and Engineering in Cancer
How will convergence impact the future of cancer research? Answering that question is the driving force behind the Koch Institute for Integrative Research at MIT's...
Study shows texting as good as medication at improving type 2 diabetes management
Credit: Scripps Health SAN DIEGO - Low-income Hispanics with Type 2 diabetes who received health-related text messages every day for six months saw improvements in...
Drug combination benefits patients with tophaceous gout
The drug lesinurad in combination with febuxostat was better at lowering blood levels of urate than febuxostat alone in a phase III clinical trial of...
Being overweight linked to longer life in older diabetics
Among older patients with diabetes, those who are overweight or obese may have a lower risk of dying prematurely than their normal weight counterparts. The...
Harnessing computational intelligence to improve the management of health emergencies
Hospitals and all the other centres devoted to healthcare accumulate numerous databases with all the records of a whole host of physiological variables of the...
Space-traveling flatworms help scientists enhance understanding of regenerative health
Credit: Junji Morokuma, Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University- MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (June 8, 2017) - Flatworms that spent five weeks aboard the International Space Station...
Unraveling the mysteries of Nipponosaurus
Credit: Hokkaido University Nipponosaurus sachalinensis - a controversial hadrosaurid dinosaur whose fossilized skeleton was unearthed in southern Sakhalin in 1934 - is found to be...
UNIST improves remote detection of hazardous radioactive substances
Credit: UNIST A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has introduced a method for the remote detection of hazardous radioactive substances. With the help of this...
Biodiversity is 3-D
Credit: TSU The species-area relationship (SAC) is a long-time considered pattern in ecology and is discussed in most of academic Ecology books. Its implications are...
Removal of aging cells could extend human life
Credit: UNIST A recent study, led by an international team of researchers confirms that targeted removal of senescent cells (SnCs), accumulated in many vertebrate tissues...
