Study finds no evidence of common herpes type virus in aggressive brain cancer tissue
Credit: Angelo De Marzo In a rigorous study of tumor tissue collected from 125 patients with aggressive brain cancers, researchers at Johns Hopkins say they...
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A minimally invasive tool to measure muscle impairment
Credit: Young et al./Biophysical Journal 2017 A minimally invasive, fiber-optic technique that accurately measures the passive stretch and twitch contraction of living muscle tissue could...
Researchers discover new combination therapy strategy for brain, blood cancers
Credit: University of Cincinnati CINCINNATI--Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine have discovered a new potential strategy to personalize therapy for brain...
Cell ‘stickiness’ could indicate metastatic potential
Credit: Afsheen Banisadr and Pranjali Beri How strongly tumor cells adhere to the surrounding tissue could indicate the likelihood that cancer will spread to other...
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...
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...
