New gene hunt reveals potential breast cancer treatment target
Credit: Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology. Australian and US researchers have developed a way to discover elusive cancer-promoting genes, ...
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How well do vaccines work? Research reveals measles vaccine efficacy
Credit: Virginia Tech The recent measles outbreaks across the country emphasize the importance of vaccinations. WATCH VIDEO: https://video.vt.edu/media/0_vltvihxh "For many ...
National STEM award success for Bath mathematician
Dr Apala Majumdar, EPSRC research fellow and reader in mathematical sciences, has won the academic category of the 2019 FDM ...
Genetic ‘usual suspects’ identified in researchers’ new list
Credit: ©Gina Motisi, 2018/CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - It's no secret that our genes are what makes us... us! ...
$23 million from NIH lets translational research institute speed new treatments
Credit: University of Virginia Health System The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV) has been awarded a five-year ...
Dingoes should remain a distinct species in Australia
20 leading researchers have confirmed in a new study that the dingo is actually a unique, Australian species in its ...
Do all networks obey the scale-free law? Maybe not
As Benjamin Franklin once joked, death and taxes are universal. Scale-free networks may not be, at least according to a ...
Swimming microbes steer themselves into mathematical order
Credit: Video courtesy of Saverio Spagnolie MADISON, Wis. -- Freeing thousands of microorganisms to swim in random directions in an ...
Study: Landlord disclosure of bedbugs cuts infestations, creates long-term savings
Credit: Photo by Stephen Ausmus, USDA Agricultural Research Service. AMES, Iowa - Policies requiring landlords to disclose a rental unit's ...
Mini cheetah is the first four-legged robot to do a backflip
Robot's lightweight, high-power design is the perfect platform to share and play, developers sayCredit: Photo: Bryce Vickmark MIT's new mini ...
£200 million to create a new generation of artificial intelligence leaders
1,000 new Ph.D.s created to drive AI transformation across industry, healthcare and climate change 1,000 new PhDs created to drive ...
Engage with the world’s most talented mathematicians and computer scientists in Heidelberg!
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum enables selected young researchers to profoundly network with the laureates of mathematics and computer science This ...
Epidemiological model lends insight to chlamydia outbreak in Japan
Credit: Toshikazu Kuniya, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. Mathematical models that quantify the dynamics of infectious diseases are crucial predictive ...
Improved RNA data visualization method gets to the bigger picture faster
Like going from a pinhole camera to a Polaroid, a significant mathematical update to the formula for a popular bioinformatics ...