Microscopy — Biomass close-up
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists created an approach to get a better look at plant cell wall characteristics at high...
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Estetrol (E4) shows promise as a safe, effective drug for use in advanced prostate cancer
ORLANDO--The natural fetal estrogen estetrol, also called E4, is being tested as a new drug that may help treat advanced prostate cancer, according to an...
Penn researchers use new imaging to show key enzyme in ovarian cancer
PHILADELPHIA - A new imaging test may provide the ability to identify ovarian cancer patients who are candidates for an emerging treatment that targets a...
Diagnosing cancer
Credit: RUB, Marquard Scientists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have established a process for identifying biomarkers for the diagnosis of different types of cancer. With the aid...
Advanced FDG-PET image analysis identifies cell mutations in cancer patients
Credit: Stephen S.F. Yip, PhD, and Hugo Aerts, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston Massachusetts; John Kim, MD,...
Negative regulator stops extreme immune response to parasite, averting multi-organ damage
Credit: Osaka University Osaka - Cytokines are proteins secreted by several types of immune cells in response to infection, inflammation, or injury. Interleukin-17 (IL-17) is...
Solitary perturbations in the steep boundary of magnetized toroidal plasma
Throughout the history of mankind, an anthropomorphic figure transcends time and distance to appear repeatedly and consistently wherever man resides. Ra, Tonatiuh, Sol Invictus, Taiyang...
Robot epigenetics: Adding complexity to embodied robot evolution
Evolutionary robotics is a new exciting area of research which draws on Darwinian evolutionary principles to automatically develop autonomous robots. In a new research article...
Researchers document how melanoma tumors form
Loading video... Credit: David Soll laboratory, University of Iowa There's a reason why melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, is so aggressive. You...
MIPT’s researchers come up with clean technology to make low molecular weight chitosan
Credit: MIPT Press Office Researchers at MIPT have developed a new technique for obtaining low molecular weight water-soluble chitin and chitosan. The proposed method relies...
Computing — quantum deep
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory In a first for deep learning, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory-led team is bringing together quantum, high-performance and neuromorphic computing...
Mexico announces up to $3 million in new funding to save the Vaquita porpoise
Credit: Credit: NMMF They are shy and elusive. They are tinier than a dolphin. And they are disappearing fast. Despite heroic efforts, vaquita porpoises are...
Mapping Ecosystem Services: Collection of theories, methods and practical applications
Credit: Costanza et al. 2014 The new book Mapping Ecosystem Services provides a comprehensive collection of theories, methods and practical applications of ecosystem services (ES)...
Conductive graphene ink wins science photography competition’s top prize
Credit: James Macleod, University of Cambridge/EPSRC An image of spectacular swirling graphene ink in alcohol, which can be used to print electrical circuits onto paper,...
‘Virtual’ interferometers may overcome scale issues for optical quantum computers
Credit: R Alexander et al/APS Melbourne, Australia: It's not the size of the interferometer that matters; it's how you use it. So claim a team...
