BOSTON - A personalized cancer vaccine markedly improved outcomes for patients suffering from acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a potentially lethal blood cancer, in a clinical...
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 7, 2016 - Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC have engineered a protein that reverses carbon monoxide (CO)...
Speech recognition systems, such as those that convert speech to text on cellphones, are generally the result of machine learning. A computer pores through thousands...
Credit: Credits: NASA/NOAA/Goddard Rapid Response Team NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured an image of newly formed Tropical Cyclone 05B in the Bay of Bengal, Northern...
A computer program is diving deep into water quality data from Pennsylvania, helping scientists detect potential environmental impacts of Marcellus Shale gas drilling. The work,...
Credit: (Photo by Jacquelynne Hernandez) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the government of Singapore'..
Simon Fraser University researchers have found that high-resolution brain scans, coupled with computational analysis, could play a critical role in helping to detect concussions that...
(SALT LAKE CITY) -- As a teenager just moved to Iowa from war-ravaged Germany in 1950, John M. Opitz, M.D., wanted to study developmental biology,...
The next time you place your coffee order, imagine slapping onto your to-go cup a sticker that acts as an electronic decal, letting you know...
microRNAs (miRNA) are recently discovered, short segments of RNA, which play vital roles in health and disease. microRNA over- or under-abundance can switch critical disease...
Credit: University of Illinois In contradicting a theory that's been the standard for over eighty years, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have...
Credit: Irina Kufareva, PhD, UC San Diego Inflammation is a good thing when it's fighting off infection, but too much can lead to autoimmune diseases...
Children exposed to secondhand marijuana smoke show measurable amounts of the drug in their bodies, a researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount...
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Sockeye salmon that evolved in the generally colder waters of the far north still know how to cool off if necessary, an...
(TORONTO, Canada - Dec. 7, 2016) - Leukemia researchers at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre have developed a 17-gene signature derived from leukemia stem cells that...
