Hormonal contraceptives and hair dyes increase breast cancer risk
In her recent doctoral dissertation, researcher Sanna Heikkinen from the University of Helsinki and Finnish Cancer Registry evaluates the contribution of the use of hormonal...
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Innovative technique greatly increases sensitivity of DNA sequencing
Toronto (March 9, 2017) - OICR researchers, together with international collaborators, have invented a technique to avoid a major problem with common laboratory techniques and...
Canada continues to punch above its weight in the field of regenerative medicine
Credit: Council of Canadian Academies A new workshop report, Building on Canada's Strengths in Regenerative Medicine, released today by the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA),...
New material helps record data with light
Credit: ITMO University Russian physicists with their colleagues from Europe through changing the light parameters, learned to generate quasiparticles - excitons, which were fully controllable...
Rabbits’ detached retina ‘glued’ with new hydrogel
Credit: 2017 Takamasa Sakai. A newly developed elastic gel administered in liquid form and shown to turn jellylike within minutes after injection into rabbits' eyes...
‘Blurred times’ in a quantum world
Credit: Copyright: Juan Carlos Palomino, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna In everyday life we are used to the idea that properties of an object...
New technologies for astronomical research
The "Novel Astronomical Instrumentation through Photonic Reformatting" (NAIR) project is being funded by the DFG within the "New Instrumentation for Research" call for proposals. The...
Scientists effectively disrupt communication between parasites that spread disease
Prof. Shulamit Michaeli, Dean of Bar-Ilan's Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, and member of the Bar-Ilan Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials...
Surprise: Transport proteins evolved long before their compounds emerged
As in an arms race plants constantly develop new toxic compounds to protect themselves against herbivores and diseases - and as in war, mobility is...
Stem cell reprogramming factor controls change in cellular energy generation
Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan - A little over 10 years ago, the first reprogramming of adult cells into undifferentiated stem cells was achieved....
Researchers identify a new way to promote tissue regeneration
Credit: Houston Methodist Houston Methodist researchers have identified an immune pathway that promotes the formation of a cell that can develop into new tissues and...
Personalized medicine, proton therapy, more advances in lung cancer at upcoming symposium
SAN FRANCISCO, March 9, 2017 -- The press program for next week's 2017 Multidisciplinary Thoracic Cancers Symposium features research advances in lung cancer including immunotherapy,...
Cedars-Sinai neuroscientists pinpoint key gene controlling tumor growth in brain cancers
LOS ANGELES (March 9, 2017) - Cedars-Sinai investigators have identified a stem cell-regulating gene that affects tumor growth in patients with brain cancer and can...
Immunotherapy trial cures Tasmanian devils of DFTD
Credit: shutterstock An international study involving multiple institutions over six years has shown that immunotherapy can cure Tasmanian devils of the deadly devil facial tumour...
NTU Singapore and Japan’s RIKEN collaborate in human biology research
Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) and Japan's flagship research institute in the natural sciences RIKEN are working together to advance research in human biology....
