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ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- One of the biggest challenges in treating prostate cancer is distinguishing men who have aggressive and ...

What influences older adults’ preferences for care?

We all know that family and friends are important, and that the people close to us have a big impact ...

Birth of new neurons in the human hippocampus ends in childhood

Credit: Alvarez-Buylla lab / UCSF One of the liveliest debates in neuroscience over the past half century surrounds whether the ...

Houston Methodist researcher makes bold move by releasing nanotech ‘recipe’

Credit: Houston Methodist HOUSTON - (March 7, 2018) - In a rare move, a Houston Methodist researcher is sharing his ...

Preventing exhaustion in immune cells boosts immunotherapy in mice

PITTSBURGH, March 6, 2018 - If you're an immune cell gearing up to fight cancer, you'd better eat your breakfast. ...

Untapped gold mine is lost from end-of-life vehicles

Credit: Empa Vast quantities of scarce metals are being lost from Europe's urban mine of vehicles, including 20 tonnes of ...

Many small differences contribute to a large variation

Drugs are not equally effective for everyone. To some extent, this is due to the fact that people's bodies will ...

Unclassified version of new report predicts small drone threats to infantry units

WASHINGTON - The emergence of inexpensive small unmanned aircraft systems (sUASs) that operate without a human pilot, commonly known as ...

Provide stroke patients with palliative care support minus the label

When caring for stroke patients, health care providers should focus on the social and emotional issues facing patients, rather than ...

Stem cell ‘twins’ to study disease

Credit: (Kyoto University / Knut Woltjen) Japan -- Researchers led by Dr. Knut Woltjen report a new gene editing method ...

127-million-year-old baby bird fossil sheds light on avian evolution

Credit: Raúl Martín The tiny fossil of a prehistoric baby bird is helping scientists understand how early avians came into ...

‘Fighting my cancer as much as possible’: Why many patients join phase 1 clinical trials

Credit: © European Society for Medical Oncology LUGANO-PARIS, 5 March 2018 - "Fighting my cancer as much as possible" is ...

Capturing brain signals with soft electronics

Credit: Thor Balkhed Klas Tybrandt, principal investigator at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at Linköping University, has developed new technology ...

Cancer stem cells, allies of the tumor and enemies of the patient

Credit: UEx The scientists of the UEx Molecular Biology of Cancer Research Group have a very clear objective. They want ...

Spanish scientists discover the cause of accelerated atherosclerosis and premature death in progeria

Credit: CNIC Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome (HGPS, also known as progeria) is a very rare genetic disease that affects fewer than 400 ...

Researchers find algorithm for large-scale brain simulations

Credit: Forschungszentrum Jülich An international group of researchers has made a decisive step towards creating the technology to achieve simulations ...

Rice team designs lens-free fluorescent microscope

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 5, 2018) - Lenses are no longer necessary for some microscopes, according to ...

The Neuro and Thermo Fisher Scientific Partner to fight neurodegenerative disease

The Montreal Neurological Institute (The Neuro) of McGill University, a world-leading institution focused on brain research and advanced patient care, ...

Study discovers South African wildfires create climate cooling

Credit: NASA/Kirk Knobelspriesse University of Wyoming researchers led a study that discovered that biomass smoke originating from South Africa that ...

New gene therapy corrects a form of inherited macular degeneration in canine model