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A study of three genes associated with the development of prostate cancer found that men with inherited mutations in these ...

Coping mechanism suggests new way to make cancer cells more vulnerable to chemotherapies

The same signal that drives aggressive growth in a deadly cancer cell type also triggers coping mechanisms that make it ...

Cancer breakthrough miniature device shows which drugs perform best against tumors

Credit: University of Huddersfield "...the device allows early assessment of the effects of drugs, speeding up the adoption of those ...

Dental hygiene, caveman style

Credit: Karen Hardy Bits of wood recovered from a 1.2-million-year-old tooth found at an excavation site in northern Spain indicate ...

Spanish scientists sequence the genome of the Iberian lynx, the most endangered felid

Credit: EBD-CSIC Spanish scientists have sequenced the genome of the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus), currently one of the world's most ...

WPI researchers build liquid biopsy chip that detects metastatic cancer cells in blood

Loading video... Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - A chip developed by mechanical engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute ...

Mystery of super flash solved

Credit: Chandra/Harvard When astronomers and astrophysicists observe flashes of light in the dark sky, they assume they have seen a ...

Researchers achieve meter-scale optical coherence tomography for first time

Credit: James G. Fujimoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology WASHINGTON -- An industry-academic collaboration has achieved the first optical coherence tomography ...

Inaugural Walter Kohn Prize awarded to Chinese physicist

The inaugural Walter Kohn Prize for quantum-mechanical materials and molecular modeling has been awarded to Professor Yanming Ma, a researcher ...

Nanocubes simplify printing and imaging in color and infrared

Credit: Maiken Mikkelsen, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. - Duke University researchers believe they have overcome a longstanding hurdle to producing ...

Researchers work to improve the lifecycle of materials

When most living creatures get hurt, they can self-heal and recover from the injury. But, when damage occurs to inanimate ...

Predicting extinction — with the help of a Yule tree

Credit: Mariolys Rivas Montreal, December 14, 2016 -- At this time of year, the words "Yule tree" may conjure images ...

University of Minnesota research shows people can control a robotic arm with only their minds

Credit: College of Science and Engineering Researchers at the University of Minnesota have made a major breakthrough that allows people ...

European Geosciences Union meeting: Media registration now open

The 2017 General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) provides an opportunity for journalists to hear about the latest ...

Genome sequence reveals why the whitefly is such a formidable threat to food security

Credit: USDA ITHACA, NY--Researchers have sequenced the genome of the whitefly (Bemisia tabici), an invasive insect responsible for spreading plant ...

Study shows nanoparticles could be used to overcome treatment-resistant breast cancer

CINCINNATI--Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine have been able to generate multifunctional RNA nanoparticles that could ...

A hardware-based modeling approach for real world collaborative multi-robot tasks

Technological revolution means robots no longer are the song of the future. The Governor of the Bank of England predicts ...

Corn yield modeling towards sustainable agriculture

Credit: Image granted by Laila Puntel. With an innovative modeling approach, researchers set out to examine corn and soybean yields ...

Natural kill cell technology to stop cancer gets licensed