Huntsman scientists identify bone degradation process within metastatic breast cancer
SALT LAKE CITY - Once breast cancer spreads through the body, it can degrade a patient's healthy bones, causing numerous problems. Scientists at Huntsman Cancer...
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New class of materials could revolutionize biomedical, alternative energy industries
Credit: Mark Lee COLUMBIA, Mo. - Polyhedral boranes, or clusters of boron atoms bound to hydrogen atoms, are transforming the biomedical industry. These manmade materials...
Nonresident seabirds forage along the continental shelf break in Central California
Credit: Sophie Webb (Point Blue/NOAA-ONMS/ACCESS) Nonresident seabirds in Central California concentrate their foraging along the continental shelf break, according to a study published January 25,...
Study reveals that climate change could dramatically alter fragile mountain habitats
Credit: Richard Bardgett Mountain regions of the world are under direct threat from human-induced climate change which could radically alter these fragile habitats, warn an...
When it comes to predators, size matters
Marine reserves play an important role in sustaining ecosystem diversity and abundance. Their presence enables certain species to return to a natural size structure, which...
Exceptionally preserved Jurassic sea life found in new fossil site
Credit: Rowan Martindale/The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences. A trove of exceptionally preserved Jurassic marine fossils discovered in Canada, rare for...
Floating towards water treatment
Credit: William Strosnider Floating wetlands may seem odd but are perfectly natural. They occur when mats of vegetation break free from the shore of a...
MIT scholars show new method of harvesting crowd wisdom
Magnuviator Fossil with Sketch The wisdom of crowds is not always perfect. But two scholars at MIT's Sloan Neuroeconomics Lab, along with a colleague at...
Deep learning algorithm does as well as dermatologists in identifying skin cancer
Credit: Matt Young It's scary enough making a doctor's appointment to see if a strange mole could be cancerous. Imagine, then, that you were in...
Gene delivery to the lung can treat broad range of diseases within and beyond the lung
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, January 25, 2017--Targeting therapeutic genes to the lungs offers the potential to manage serious lung diseases...
New study highlights need to increase female peer reviewers
Credit: Credit: Jory Lerback WASHINGTON, DC -- Publishers of scholarly journals should take additional steps to get more women to serve as peer reviewers of...
Pitt cancer researchers honored with 2017 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
Credit: The Paul Ehrlich Foundation PITTSBURGH -- One of the most prestigious awards in the field of medicine will be presented to University of Pittsburgh...
First step towards photonic quantum network
Credit: (Photo: Ola Jakup Joensen, NBI). Advanced photonic nanostructures are well on their way to revolutionising quantum technology for quantum networks based on light. Researchers...
Cosmic lenses support findings on accelerated universe expansion
Credit: NASA, ESA, Suyu (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics), Auger (University of Cambridge) The Hubble constant -- the rate at which the Universe is expanding...
Jumping spiders court in color
Credit: Thomas Shahan While most arachnophiles will likely find tiny spider dancers who can "swagger like Jagger" entertaining, it's more than the dance that captures...
