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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

ANN ARBOR -- Photosynthesis has driven life on this planet for more than 3 billion years -- first in bacteria, ...

Decision-making is shaped by individual differences in the functional brain connectome

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Each day brings with it a host of decisions to be made, and each person approaches those ...

TGen-ASU study identifies molecular response of muscle to different types of exercise

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- March 20, 2018 -- Exercise in the future could be customized for individuals based on genomics, according ...

Pain management in low-resource settings — anesthesiologists advocate for increased access

March 20, 2018 - Increasing the availability of effective pain management in low- to middle-income countries will be an essential ...

What plants can teach us about oil spill clean-up, microfluidics

Credit: Yang Yang For years, scientists have been inspired by nature to innovate solutions to tricky problems, even oil spills ...

Medicine that slows balding may turn stiff vessels supple, helping vital organs

WASHINGTON-(March. 20, 2018)- A medicine that slows balding and stimulates hair growth also may make stiff vessels more stretchy and ...

European Lung Cancer Congress 2018

Geneva, Switzerland - Around 2,300 participants from across the world will meet in Geneva at the eighth European Lung Cancer ...

Drawing inspiration from plants and animals to restore tissue

Credit: Disease Biophysics Group/Harvard University Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and ...

Decoding the chemistry of fear

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(March 19, 2018) Ask a dozen people about their greatest fears, and you'll likely get a ...

The use of immunotherapy to treat metastatic breast cancer

Breast cancer, in the stage with distant metastases, is an incurable disease with a 5 years survival rate of about ...

Wives of many prostate cancer sufferers made ill or feel undermined by the disease

Copenhagen: Many wives of advanced prostate cancer sufferers feel that their lives are being undermined by their husband's illness, with ...

Visual recognition: Seeing the world through the eyes of rodents

Man or woman, happy or sad. Sometimes a glance is enough to say it. Yet, the visual process that allows ...

Insulin pump known to be effective in adolescents, adults also benefits children