Small intestine GIST associated with better prognosis in younger patients
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) are tumors that arise is the wall of the digestive tract, and most often occur in the stomach or small intestine....
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UCSF, Intel join forces to develop deep learning analytics for health care
UC San Francisco's Center for Digital Health Innovation (CDHI) today announced a collaboration with Intel Corporation to deploy and validate a deep learning analytics platform...
PPMD awards $600,000 to NJIT and Talem for Duchenne muscular dystrophy exoskeleton
Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), a nonprofit organization leading the fight to end Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne), today announced a $600,000 grant to be awarded...
Roberto Morandotti and Federico Rosei receive the Sichuan Province 1000 talents award
The government of Sichuan province has recognized the outstanding research of two INRS professors, Roberto Morandotti and Federico Rosei, respectively for their work in photonics...
Rice’s Baker Institute releases policy recommendations for the Trump administration
Credit: Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy has released policy recommendations for President-elect Donald Trump's ..
RIT engineer researches the impact of shear stress on cell circulation
How do cells and protein molecules respond to stress as they travel through blood vessels? Could resulting changes to these biological components impact how diseases...
Soft robot helps the heart beat
Credit: Ellen Roche/Harvard University Harvard University and Boston Children's Hospital researchers have developed a customizable soft robot that fits around a heart and helps it...
Soft robot could aid failing hearts by mimicking healthy cardiac muscles
Loading video... Credit: Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard University Every year about 2,100 people receive heart transplants in the United States, while 5.7 million suffer from...
RIT wins NSF grant to transform physics graduate education admissions and retention
A Rochester Institute of Technology professor won funding from the National Science Foundation to develop an inclusive approach to physics graduate education admission and retention...
New England’s 1816 ‘Mackerel Year’ and climate change today
Credit: NOAA Library, Silver Spring, Md. AMHERST, Mass. - Hundreds of articles have been written about the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history, at Indonesia's...
Survival of many of the world’s nonhuman primates is in doubt, experts report
Credit: See caption. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A report in the journal Science Advances details the grim realities facing a majority of the nonhuman primates in...
Mighty river, mighty filter
Credit: Photo credit Joseph Baustian, The Nature Conservancy. Huckleberry Finn wouldn't recognize today's lower Mississippi River. Massive walls separate the river from low-lying lands alo..
Soft robot can help a heart to pump
Wednesday, 18 January, 2017: An innovative soft robotic sleeve which can help a heart to beat has been developed by researchers including Dr Ellen Roche...
‘Collateral’ lethality may offer new therapeutic approach for cancers of the pancreas, stomach and colon
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Cancer cells often delete genes that normally suppress tumor formation. These deletions also may extend to neighboring genes, an event...
Advanced stage NSCLC patients receiving treatment have better OS than untreated patients
DENVER - Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with advanced disease receiving standard of care treatment have a higher overall survival (OS) than similar patients...
