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Credit: KU News Service LAWRENCE -- The search for biology on neighbor planet Mars won't play out like a Hollywood ...

Goal of new tissue-chip research is to assess efficacy of novel epilepsy drugs

Credit: VIIBRE, Vanderbilt University An interdisciplinary team of Vanderbilt University researchers has received a two-year, $2-million federal grant to develop ...

NSF awards Indiana University $4 million to advance medical nanotechnology

Credit: Image courtesy of the Vikram Jadhao Lab Only a year after establishing the intelligent systems engineering program in the ...

UM Rosenstiel school scientists awarded over $14 million to advance oil spill science

Credit: UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science MIAMI - Researchers at the UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and ...

Slowly proliferating melanoma cells with high metastatic properties

PHILADELPHIA -- (Sept. 20, 2017) -- A study conducted at The Wistar Institute has led to the identification of a ...

New clinical trial explores combining immunotherapy and radiation for sarcoma patients

BALTIMORE - Sept. 20, 2017. University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers are investigating a new approach to treat high-risk ...

Space radiation is risky business for the human body

Credit: NASA While people protect their eyes from the sun's radiation during a solar eclipse, NASA's Human Research Program (HRP) ...

Ensuring broccoli sprouts retain their cancer-fighting compounds

Raw broccoli sprouts, a rich source of potential cancer-fighting compounds, have become a popular health food in recent years. But ...

Sandia Labs wins 5 regional technology transfer awards

Credit: Sandia National Laboratories/Randy Wong ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories won five awards from the 2017 Federal Laboratory Consortium ...

Protected waters foster resurgence of West Coast rockfish

Credit: Advanced Survey Technologies, Fisheries Resources Division, NOAA Fisheries/Southwest Fisheries Science Center West Coast rockfish species in deep collapse only ...

Fly away home? Ice age may have clipped bird migration

Credit: Craig Chandler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln The onset of the last ice age may have forced some bird species to ...

Naked molecules dancing in liquid become visible

Credit: (K. Hima Nagamanasa, Huan Wang, and Steve Granick. Liquid-Cell Electron Microscopy of Adsorbed Polymers. Advanced Materials (2017) Copyright Wiley-VCH ...

Tumor-infiltrating B lymphocytes promote melanoma progression & resistance to therapy

PHILADELPHIA -- (Sept. 19, 2017) -- In a multi-institutional collaborative study, scientists at The Wistar Institute and the Medical University ...

PharmaMar starts clinical studies with a new compound -PM14- in patients with solid tumors

After its preclinical phase, where the compound has demonstrated its activity in solid tumors in animal models, this Phase I ...

A dream of foam

Credit: Group Jan Vermant, ETH Zurich Oktoberfest in Munich is an exciting cultural event, but it is also a source ...

NSF issues new EPSCoR awards, investing in science and engineering across nation

Credit: Walter Dodds, Kansas State University. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded five jurisdictions nearly $20 million each through ...

Fluorescence microscopy on a chip — no lenses required

Credit: Takehara et al. WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 19, 2017 - Fluorescence microscopy gives researchers incredible power to illuminate the tiniest ...

PET imaging tracks Zika virus infection, disease progression in mouse model

Credit: Image courtesy of US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases For the first time, scientists have used Positron ...

Cultivating marine biomass

One of the most productive organisms on Earth, giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) depends on nutrients from the surrounding water column ...

‘Smart meters need a rapid rethink,’ say Bath researchers