Study finds significant limitations of physician-rating websites
An analysis of 28 commercial physician-rating websites finds that search mechanisms are cumbersome, and reviews scarce, according to a study appearing in the February 21...
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Deep Learning predicts hematopoietic stem cell development
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Autonomous driving, automatic speech recognition, and the game Go: Deep Learning is generating more and...
The smallest Cas9 genetic scissors (so far)
Credit: IBS Scientists at the Center for Genome Engineering, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), in collaboration with KIM Eunji (ToolGen Inc.) and KIM...
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute awarded $3 million to develop biological pacemakers
LOS ANGELES (Feb. 21, 2017) - With a new $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute investigators are moving closer...
New approach to cervical cancer care in Botswana cuts treatment lag time in half
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA--Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths for women low- and middle-income countries, including Botswana, where 75 percent of cervical...
Biomarker predicts poor prognosis in African-Americans with triple-negative breast cancer
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Having high levels of a certain biomarker is linked to poor prognosis in African-American patients with triple-negative breast cancer, while the...
Danish discovery opens up for new type of immunological treatment of cancer
Researchers from Aarhus University have found an important piece of the puzzle leading towards an understanding of how our innate immune system reacts against viral...
Israeli, Palestinian researchers cooperate to find risks for B cell non-hodgkin lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL), tumors which may originate from B or T lymphocytes, account for approximately 3% of the worldwide cancer burden. Most epidemiological studies of...
Scientists remove reliance on seasonality in new broccoli line, potentially doubling yield
Credit: The John Innes Centre Scientists at the John Innes Centre are developing a new line of fast-growing sprouting broccoli that goes from seed to...
Stabilizing energy storage
Credit: Sharmila Samaroo/University of Michigan. Because the sun doesn't always shine, solar utilities need a way to store extra charge for a rainy day. The...
Gamification motivates consumers to reduce power consumption peaks
In collaboration with the international CITYOPT project, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed an energy planning tool for experts and an application for...
DOOMED is new online learning approach to robotics modeling
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, February 21, 2017--Robotics researchers have developed a novel adaptive control approach based on online learning that allows...
Origin of spooky meteor noises reappraised by Sandia researchers
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- When a meteor is about to conk your neighborhood and gives fair warning by emitting sizzling, rustling and hissing sounds as it...
Unlocking crop diversity by manipulating plant sex
Credit: Dr Ian Henderson Plant geneticists at the University of Cambridge have found that different wild varieties of thale cress (Arabidopsis) show different levels of...
Winners and losers: Climate change will shift vegetation
Projected global warming will likely decrease the extent of temperate drylands by a third over the remainder of the 21st century coupled with an increase...
