Hijacking bacteria to kill cancer
Credit: Carla Schaffer / Zheng et al. / Science Translational Medicine Scientists have recruited modified bacteria to help fight cancer, which successfully infiltrated tumors and...
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Professor Emanuele Orgiu joins the Young Academy of Europe
Professor Emanuele Orgiu, who recently came to the INRS Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, is part of the new cohort of young researchers admitted to the...
Ludwig research will shift how cancer diversity and resistance are understood and studied
Credit: Ludwig Cancer Research FEB. 8, 2017, NEW YORK -- A paradigm-changing Ludwig Cancer Research study reveals that short fragments of circular DNA that encode...
New Oxford University study shows some animal welfare issues get more media
Animal welfare issues receive varying levels of UK media attention, with some species being more widely reported than others, a new University of Oxford study...
Data on blue whales off California helps protect their distant relatives
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Southwest Fisheries Science Center/James W. Gilpatrick, Jr. and Morgan S. Lynn Scientists know a great deal about blue whales off California, where the...
Grow, mow, mulch: Finding lawn’s value
Credit: Jon Trappe Cranking up the lawn mower on a Saturday afternoon may be a child's most dreaded chore. But little does he or she...
Designer compound may untangle damage leading to some dementias
Credit: Courtesy of Miller lab, Washington University, St. Louis, MO In a study of mice and monkeys, National Institutes of Health funded researchers showed that...
UCI scientists create organs-on-chips for large-scale drug screening
Credit: Hughes Lab Led by UCI professor of molecular biology & biochemistry Christopher C.W. Hughes, the research team successfully established multiple vascularized micro-organs on an...
Penn researchers are among the first to grow a versatile 2-dimensional material
University of Pennsylvania researchers are now among the first to produce a single, three-atom-thick layer of a unique two-dimensional material called tungsten ditelluride. Their findings...
Study of complex genetic region finds hidden role of NCF1 in multiple autoimmune diseases
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina Investigators at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) report pre-clinical research showing that a genetic variant encoded in...
This Week from AGU: Greenland Ice Sheet melting can cool subtropics and alter climate
This Week from AGU: Greenland Ice Sheet melting can cool subtropics and alter climate GeoSpace Greenland Ice Sheet melting can cool subtropics and alter climate...
An alternative theory on how aspirin may thwart cancer
Studies abound that point to a role for plain old aspirin in keeping deadly cancers at bay. While aspirin is not yet part of mainstream...
Refined method offers new piece in the cancer puzzle
Credit: The University of Gothenburg A special spectrometry method that is normally used in analyses of computer chips, lacquers and metals has been further developed...
Patient self checks are critical to avoid potentially deadly melanoma recurrence
CHICAGO ( February 8, 2017): Recurrences of early stage (stage II) melanoma are more often detected by patients and their physicians than by routine imaging...
Collapsed chloroplasts are targeted in self-eating process
Credit: Masanori Izumi Researchers at Tohoku University have identified a previously uncharacterized type of autophagy, during which an autophagic process termed chlorophagy removes collapsed chlor..
