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Credit: TACC Much of the data of the World Wide Web hides like an iceberg below the surface. The so-called ...

Researchers identify ‘synthetic essentiality’ as novel approach for locating cancer therapy targets

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center A new method has been found for identifying therapeutic targets in cancers lacking specific key ...

Sentinels in the blood: A new diagnostic for pancreatic cancer

Credit: The Biodesign Institute Despite enormous research strides, detection methods for many diseases remain cumbersome and expensive, and often uncover ...

Study sheds light on how carnivorous plants acquired a taste for meat

Credit: Mitsuyasu Hasebe BUFFALO, N.Y. -- To the average plant-eating human, the thought of a plant turning the tables to ...

CU scientists help pinpoint genetic changes related to carnivorous plant evolution

AURORA, Colo. (Feb. 6, 2017) - A team of scientists that includes researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical ...

Up, up and away: USU chemists say ‘yes,’ helium can form compounds

Credit: Ivan Popov/Utah State University LOGAN, UTAH, USA - Can helium bond with other elements to form a stable compound? ...

Sandia adds augmented reality to training toolbox

Credit: (Photo by Randy Montoya) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- When you hear the term "serious gaming" you might envision professional eSports ...

CIFAR receives $4M to strengthen health research in B.C.

(Toronto - Feb. 3, 2017) CIFAR (The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) welcomes the announcement by British Columbia's Ministry of ...

New software automates brain imaging

Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience When humans and animals learn and form memories, the physical structures of their ...

Online Pest Risk Atlas for Africa to combat climate change effects on pest management

The International Potato Center (CIP) announces the launch of its free online mobile accessible Pest Risk Atlas for Africa that ...

Machine learning method accurately predicts metallic defects

Credit: Bharat Medasani, Berkeley Lab / PNNL For the first time, researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) ...

Monell Center receives grant to characterize distinctive odor of ovarian cancer

Credit: Paola Nogueras/Monell Center PHILADELPHIA (Feb. 6, 2017) - Promising research to identify a characteristic odor that can be used ...

Dartmouth-led study finds mutual reinforcement of phenotypic diversity and cooperation

A new model exploring how evolutionary dynamics work in natural selection has found that phenotypic diversity, or an organism's observable ...

USDA-NIFA awards $3 million for plant & animal phenomics research

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced ...

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 ...

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 ...

Full(erene) potential

In what could be called a classic "Eureka" moment, UC Santa Barbara materials researchers have discovered a simple yet effective ...

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 ...

The best treatment for laryngeal cancer? This approach helps decide

ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- Even as treatment options for laryngeal cancer seemed to improve, survival rates did not. For the ...

Defense mechanism employed by algae can effectively inhibit marine fouling