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March 23, 2018

Cancer patients in Europe can now receive a life-extending drug invented and developed by scientists at Newcastle University. Women with ...

LifeTime — A visionary proposal for an EU Flagship

Credit: Spencer Philiip, EMBL-EBI Following the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2001, scientists and the media described the ...

Electric textile lights a lamp when stretched

Credit: Johan Bodell/Chalmers University of Technology Working up a sweat from carrying a heavy load? That is when the textile ...

Scientists develop tiny tooth-mounted sensors that can track what you eat

Credit: Fio Omenetto, Ph.D., Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (March 22, 2018) - Monitoring in real time what happens in and ...

Researchers identify compound to prevent breast cancer cells from activating in brain

Credit: Houston Methodist Researchers at Houston Methodist used computer modeling to find an existing investigational drug compound for leukemia patients ...

Plants really do feed their friends

Credit: Heejung Cho Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have discovered ...

Mobile ‘dual-comb’ device significantly improves methane leak detection

Credit: Stephanie Sizemore and Ian Coddington/NIST Accurately detecting, locating and quantifying leaks of methane, the main component of natural gas ...

Laser-based system offers continuous monitoring of leaks from oil and gas operations

Credit: Sean Coburn, University of Colorado in Boulder WASHINGTON -- Researchers have conducted the first field tests for a new ...

Obesity surgery prevents severe chronic kidney disease and kidney failure

Credit: Malin Arnesson Patients that underwent weight-loss surgery ran a significantly lower risk of developing severe chronic kidney disease and ...

University Hospitals team performs first transcatheter mitral valve replacement in Ohio

CLEVELAND - University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute officially opened the APOLLO trial today implanting the Intrepid transcatheter mitral ...

Researchers use light to turn yeast into biochemical factories

Credit: Sameer Khan/Fotobuddy Scientists have recently learned how to use light to control specific groups of neurons to better understand ...

Rate of hip replacement revision surgery declines in all age groups — except middle age

March 22, 2018 - As more patients undergo total hip arthroplasty (THA) before age 65, the rate of repeat hip ...

Chronic opioids linked to increased complications after spinal fusion surgery

March 21, 2018

March 21, 2018 - Patients who have been taking opioid pain relievers for several months before spinal fusion surgery are ...

Department of Defense grant to test promising treatment for triple-negative breast cancer

March 21, 2018

A unique cell surface protein found on triple-negative type breast cancer cells called JAG1 is a promising new therapeutic target ...

Harvard bioengineers’ biomaterial-based cancer immunotherapies to be developed by Novartis

Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University (BOSTON) - The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the ...

Discovered mode of drinking in mosquitoes carries biomedical implications

Credit: Virginia Tech Mosquitoes may have a reputation for being one of the world's most intractable pests, but they're actually ...

Illusory motion reproduced by deep neural networks trained for prediction

Credit: Akiyoshi Kitaoka Deep neural networks (DNNs), which have been developed with reference to the network structures and the operational ...

ELCC 2018: Fighting number-one cancer killer with research and a multidisciplinary approach

Geneva, Switzerland, 20 March 2018 - Around 2,300 participants from across the world will meet in Geneva at the eighth ...

Beyond the WIMP: Unique crystals could expand the search for dark matter

Credit: Millennium Simulation, Berkeley Lab A new particle detector design proposed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National ...

It’s givin’ me excitations: U-M study uncovers first steps of photosynthesis