Liver tumor growth in mice slowed with new chemo-immunotherapy treatment
Credit: Justin Kelley/MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (Feb. 28, 2017) -- Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common form of liver cancer, but treatment options are limited...
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NMR spectroscopy platform to target the development of new therapeutic agents
Implementation of a new nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy platform will provide professors Nicolas Doucet and Steven LaPlante of Centre INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier with a powerful...
Male poison frogs become cannibals after taking over territories
Credit: Andrius Pasukonis In general, male poison frogs of the species Allobates femoralis are observed as very caring and attentive fathers. Eva Ringler and her...
NeuroVision announces participation in landmark Alzheimer’s A4 study
Credit: NeuroVision Imaging LLC SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - NeuroVision Imaging LLC ("NeuroVision") today announced its participation in a new substudy with investigators at the University of...
Open Science Prize goes to software tool for tracking viral outbreaks
After three rounds of competition -- one of which involved a public vote -- a software tool developed by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research...
Inhaler users get about half as much medicine as they should from each puff
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Tens of millions of Americans with lung disease use metered-dose inhalers each day, and new studies by Rice University electrical engineers...
Study finds colorectal cancer rates have risen dramatically in Gen X and millennials
ATLANTA - February 28, 2017 - A new study finds that compared to people born around 1950, when colorectal cancer risk was lowest, those born...
Treatment of malignant brain tumor in children gets closer
DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma) is a rare malignant cerebral tumour in children. It has only a 1% 5-year survival rate, amongst other things because...
Exploring the mysteries of supercooled water
Credit: Margherita De Marzio, Gaia Camisasca, Maria Martin Conde, Mauro Rovere and Paola Gallo WASHINGTON, D.C., February 28, 2017 -- There are few things more...
Breakthrough research for testing and arranging vertical axis wind turbines
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 28, 2017 -- The sight of propeller-like rotating blades positioned high up the pole of a tall horizontal-axis wind turbine (HAWT) may...
Optical generation of ultrasound via photoacoustic effect
Credit: Brown et al. WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 28, 2017 -- Limitations of the piezoelectric array technologies conventionally used for ultrasonics inspired a group of University...
More mosquito species than previously thought may transmit Zika
Credit: UGA Athens, Ga. - Zika virus could be transmitted by more mosquito species than those currently known, according to a new predictive model created...
Do cells have exotic vibrational properties?
A little-understood biological property that appears to allow cell components to store energy on their outer edges is the possible key to developing a new...
Transforming the carbon economy
Credit: Princeton University Most strategies to combat climate change concentrate on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by substituting non-carbon energy sources for fossil fuels, but a...
Recent investigations on human group II pyridoxal 5′-phosphate decarboxylases
The aim of the present article is to compare the structural features of a particular group of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-dependent decarboxylases, namely the group II ?-decarboxylases....
