Scientists look to shine light on our dark genome
After the 2003 completion of the Human Genome Project - which sequenced all 3 billion "letters," or base pairs, in the human genome - many...
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Leading US and Korean researchers to apply artificial intelligence to aging research
Credit: Insilico Medicine Summary: Many recent advances in artificial intelligence and aging biomarkers that transpired since 2013 are converging Gachon University and Gil Medical Center...
‘Brute force’ can overcome antibiotic resistance
Antibiotics can still kill drug-resistant bacteria if they 'push' hard enough into bacterial cells, finds new UCL-led research funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences...
Cancer survivors find online and phone communication with medical professionals beneficial
Advances in cancer care have led to a rise in the number of people surviving the illness. Cancer survival rates are now at an all-time...
Research review shows that safety is valued too low
New research has shown that the benchmark used by the Office for Nuclear Regulation for judging how much should be spent on nuclear safety has...
Wetlands play vital role in carbon storage, study finds
GAMBIER, Ohio -- Human activity and development are correlated with reduced carbon storage in wetland soils, a new study published in Nature Communications shows. The...
Protein chaperone takes its job seriously
Credit: Huber and Hoelz/Caltech For proteins, this would be the equivalent of the red-carpet treatment: each protein belonging to the complex machinery of ribosomes --...
Full(erene) potential
In what could be called a classic "Eureka" moment, UC Santa Barbara materials researchers have discovered a simple yet effective method for mastering the electrical...
Supercomputing, experiment combine for first look at magnetism of real nanoparticle
Loading video... Credit: Video credit to Colin Ophus, Berkeley Lab. Video courtesy of Nature. Barely wider than a strand of human DNA, magnetic nanoparticles --...
Cell smasher
We're all pretty familiar with what happens when we sustain a knock on the head: First, the all-too-audible crack, accompanied perhaps by a moment of...
IU-based startup commercializes software to improve quality of care for pediatric patients
INDIANAPOLIS -- Two members of the Indiana University School of Medicine have launched a startup to commercialize software targeting improvement in pediatric patient care. The...
Precision-medicine approach could revive prostate cancer test
A new study led by researchers at UC San Francisco and Kaiser Permanente has identified genetic predictors of normal prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in healthy...
Model assesses interventions for bovine tuberculosis in Morocco
n many developing countries, a significant fraction of the tuberculosis burden comes potentially from the tuberculosis bacteria carried by animals, essentially cattle. Efforts to reduce...
Protecting rice crops at no extra cost
A newly identified genetic mechanism in rice can be utilized to maintain resistance to a devastating disease, without causing the typical tradeoff - a decrease...
Research pushes concept of entropy out of kilter
Credit: Stein lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Entropy, the measure of disorder in a physical system, is something that physicists understand well when...