Breast cancer statistics, 2017
Overall breast cancer death rates dropped 39 percent between 1989 and 2015, averting 322,600 breast cancer deaths during those 26 years. And while black women...
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Novel platform for investigating quiescence in dormancy-capable cancer cells
Credit: Dr. Alptekin Aksan A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities has reported a novel encapsulation approach in identifying dormant cancer cells...
New targeted alpha therapy protocol for advanced prostate cancer
Credit: C Kratochwil et al., University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany RESTON, Va. - Therapy options are limited for men with advanced-stage, metastatic castration-resistant prostate canc..
Tobacco smokers could gain 86 million years of life if they switch to vaping, study finds
WASHINGTON -- Up to 6.6 million cigarette smokers will live substantially longer if cigarette smoking is replaced by vaping over a ten-year period, calculates a...
PSU study tracks potentially harmful species from Japanese tsunami to American shores
(Portland, Ore.) Oct. 3, 2017 - Nearly 300 aquatic species have landed on American shores since the 2011 Japanese tsunami by hitching rides on manmade...
Too little is known about wildfire smoke
How do fire-suppression chemicals and pesticides affect wildfire smoke and the health of those who breathe it? UC Davis graduate students discovered that this question...
New method to measure cell stiffness could lead to improved cancer treatments
Credit: Angelyn Nguyen/UCLA UCLA biophysicists have developed a new method to rapidly determine a single cell's stiffness and size -- which could ultimately lead to...
Surrounded by potential: New science in converting biomass
Credit: Igor Slowing In every plant--from trees to crops--there exists a substance that makes up its wood or stems, fiber, and cell walls. This substance...
Benchmarking computational methods for metagenomes
They are everywhere, but invisible to the naked eye. Microbes are the unseen, influential forces behind the regulation of key environmental processes such as the...
Designer biosensor can detect antibiotic production by microbes
Credit: Edward Kalkreuter Researchers from North Carolina State University have engineered designer biosensors that can detect antibiotic molecules of interest. The biosensors are a first...
NIH awards $2.4 million to MPFI scientist to study neural circuits in the visual cortex
Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience Dr. David Fitzpatrick, Scientific Director and CEO at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI), has been...
Genetic targets to chemo-resistant breast cancer identified
Credit: NCI DALLAS - Oct. 3, 2017 - Research led by Dr. Carlos Arteaga, Director of the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, has identified...
Six for six
UC Santa Barbara's Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) has received its sixth consecutive multimillion-dollar grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund six years of...
Got a picky eater? How ‘nature and nurture’ may be influencing eating behavior in young children
URBANA, Ill. - For most preschool-age children, picky eating is just a normal part of growing up. But for others, behaviors such as insisting on...
‘CRISPR-Gold’ fixes Duchenne muscular dystrophy mutation in mice
Credit: Murthy/Conboy/Nature Biomedical Engineering Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have engineered a new way to deliver CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology inside cells and h..
