Absent tumor-suppressors allow melanoma to thwart immunotherapy
It's what's missing in the tumor genome, not what's mutated, that thwarts treatment of metastatic melanoma with immune checkpoint blockade drugs, researchers at The University...
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Warming up to cryopreservation
Credit: Manuchehrabadi et al., Science Translational Medicine (2017) Overcoming a major hurdle in transplant medicine, a new study reveals that nanotechnology can be used to...
Groundbreaking technology successfully rewarms large-scale tissues preserved at low temperatures
Credit: Haynes research group, University of Minnesota A research team, led by the University of Minnesota, has discovered a groundbreaking process to successfully rewarm large-scale...
The shifting rationales for vaping
Credit: John W. Ayers A new study harnesses social media data to explore--in their own words--the reasons people use e-cigarettes and why they started vaping...
Cholesterol-processing enzyme protects from debilitating brain lesions
An enzyme that helps break down cholesterol may also be a therapeutic target to stave off neurologic diseases, including Alzheimer's and a rare genetic disorder,...
Ninety percent of predatory fish gone from Caribbean coral reefs due to overfishing
Credit: Neil Hammerschlag Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found that up to 90 percent of predatory fish are gone...
The ultimate power nap
Credit: Wits University Why we sleep is one of the enduring unanswered mysteries of modern science. Along with such activities as eating, protecting oneself and...
Magic cover crop carpet?
Credit: Clair Keene Organic farmers have to make hard choices between protecting soil from erosion and controlling weeds. For example, large-scale organic farming relies heavily...
MD Anderson study ties protein ‘reader’ ENL to common leukemia
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON ? Anyone who uses an employee badge to enter a building may understand how a protein called ENL opens...
Synthetic tooth enamel may lead to more resilient structures
ANN ARBOR -- Unavoidable vibrations, such as those on airplanes, cause rigid structures to age and crack, but researchers at the University of Michigan may...
UW security researchers show Google’s anti-internet troll AI platform is easily deceived
Credit: University of Washington University of Washington researchers have shown that Google's new machine learning-based system to identify toxic comments in online discussion forums can...
Singing posters and talking shirts: UW engineers turn objects into FM stations
Credit: University of Washington Imagine you're waiting in your car and a poster for a concert from a local band catches your eye. What if...
Fred Hutch announces 2017 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award recipients
SEATTLE -- Mar. 1, 2017 -- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center today announced the recipients of the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, which recognizes...
World’s oldest fossils unearthed
Remains of microorganisms at least 3,770 million years old have been discovered by an international team led by UCL scientists, providing direct evidence of one...
Rapid changes point to origin of ultra-fast black hole ‘burps’
Credit: The European Space Agency (ESA) Gas outflows are common features of active supermassive black holes that reside in the center of large galaxies. Millions...
