New ‘immunoprofiler’ initiative will advance drug discovery
UC San Francisco scientists have formed an innovative research alliance with three global pharmaceutical companies to improve patients' responses to cancer immunotherapy and to increase...
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Electrocatalysis can advance green transition
Credit: Jakob Kibsgaard, DTU Physics The world population is growing, as is energy demand, and we have long been able to see the consequences of...
A new invisibility cloak to conceal objects in diffusive atmospheres is devised
As Carlos GarcÃa-Meca of the UPV's Centre for Nanophotonic Technology explained, diffusive environments are those in which the light is not propagated in a straight...
Discovered one of the brightest distant galaxies so far known
Credit: Yiping Shu (NAOC) and Gabi Perez (SMM/IAC). An international team led by researchers from the Instituto de AstrofÃsica de Canarias (IAC) and the University...
Snap, digest, respire
Credit: Photo: Lukas Fasbender The Venus flytrap captures insects for more than just nutritional purposes: A research team lead by Prof. Dr. Heinz Rennenberg and...
The role of size in development of mucosal liposome-lipopeptide vaccine
Credit: Khairunnisa A. Ghaffar et al , Bentham Science Publishers Group A Streptococcus (GAS), or Streptococcus pyogenes is an exclusivel y human Gram-positive pathogenic bacteria....
VTT develops raw materials for meatballs and falafel from mealworms and crickets
Credit: VTT VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed food ingredients from mealworms and crickets which, due to their promising structure and flavour, have...
New mouse model helps in search for better COPD and CF treatments
Credit: Associate Professor Tsuyoshi Shuto Researchers from Kumamoto University, Japan have succeeded in producing a mouse model that faithfully reproduces the pathologies of two intractable...
Melting solid below the freezing point
Credit: Chuanlong Lin and Guoyin Shen, Carnegie Institution Phase transitions surround us--for instance, liquid water changes to ice when frozen and to steam when boiled....
Cervical cancer mortality rates may be underestimated
A new analysis reveals that for most women, the risk of dying from cervical cancer is higher than previously thought. Unlike prior estimates that also...
E-cigarettes are expanding tobacco product use among youth
E-cigarettes - thought by some to be responsible for a decline in youth cigarette smoking - are actually attracting a new population of adolescents who...
Cervical cancer death rates higher among older and black women
A woman's risk of dying of cervical cancer is higher than long believed, particularly among older and black women, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of...
Novel regulatory mechanism controls how plants defend themselves against pathogens
Credit: The Sainsbury Laboratory Together with collaborators in Austria, scientists at The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) in Norwich (UK) are unravelling the complex mechanisms underlying plants'...
Bodyguards in the gut have a chemical weapon
Credit: Yongqi Shao, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Beneficial bacteria in the gut of moth larvae produce an antimicrobial agent that kills competing bacteria which otherwise...
Bodywide immune response important for fighting cancer, Stanford researchers say
Fighting off cancer requires the concerted efforts of immune molecules throughout the body, rather than just in the tumor itself, according to a new study...
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