Pediatric cancer drug shows 93 percent response rate
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - March 29, 2018 - A first-of-its-kind drug targeting a fused gene found in ...
Month: March 2018
Colon signaling pathway key to inflammatory bowel disease
Credit: Department of Biodefense Research,TMDU Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) -led research reveals role of signaling pathway in development ...
Internet addiction in teenagers studied at Kazan University
The research is a joint effort by KFU, RUDN University, Russian State University of Physical Education, Sports, Youth and Tourism, ...
£2.2 million boost for pioneering research into mental health conditions
(University of Edinburgh) Novel research aimed at better understanding mental health conditions such as depression is to receive a £2.2 ...
Calculating the impacts of natural events on wildlife
Credit: Iwasaki A. and Noda T., Scientific Reports, Jan. 15, 2018 A new method could help scientists understand how wildlife ...
Using chosen names reduces odds of depression and suicide in transgender youths
AUSTIN, Texas - In one of the largest and most diverse studies of transgender youths to date, researchers led by ...
Did highest known sea levels create the iconic shape of Mount Etna?
The iconic cone-like structure of Mount Etna could have been created after water levels in the Mediterranean Sea rose following ...
Declines in lung cancer death rates among US women have lagged in 2 hot spots
Bottom Line: While lung cancer death rates among women in most of the United States have declined substantially in recent ...
Study finds children with autism and ADHD at higher rise for anxiety
BALTIMORE, M.D., (April 1, 2018) -- Children with both autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at increased ...
Is there life adrift in the clouds of Venus?
Credit: Northrop Grumman Corp. MADISON, Wis. -- In the search for extraterrestrial life, scientists have turned over all sorts of ...
UTA bioengineer earns AHA grant to study biomechanical influences on ventricular growth
Credit: UT Arlington A University of Texas at Arlington researcher is working to determine how blood flow and cardiac muscle ...
Microengineered slippery rough surface for water harvesting from air
Credit: Xianming Dai/Nan Sun/Jing Wang/Tak-Sing Wong, Penn State A slippery rough surface (SRS) inspired by both pitcher plants and rice ...
Engineers turn plastic insulator into heat conductor
Credit: MIT News Office / Chelsea Turner CAMBRIDGE, MASS.--Plastics are excellent insulators, meaning they can efficiently trap heat - a ...
Cat-like ‘hearing’ with device tens of trillions times smaller than human eardrum
Credit: Case Western Reserve University Dynamic advances Case Western Reserve University researchers achieve cat-like 'hearing' with device 10,000,000,000,000 times smaller ...
NASA satellite gets an eye-opening look at Super Typhoon Jelawat
Credit: NOAA/NASA Goddard Rapid Response Team Satellite imagery showed that Tropical Cyclone Jelawat had developed an eye as it strengthened ...
Computer searches telescope data for evidence of distant planets
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech CAMBRIDGE, MASS.--As part of an effort to identify distant planets hospitable to life, NASA has established a crowdsourcing ...
A synthetic chameleon has been developed
Credit: Dmitry Ivanov An international team of researchers including Dmitry Ivanov, the head of laboratory of functional soft-matter systems, MSU, ...
KAIST welcomes global participants to AI World Cup 2018
KAIST will host the AI (Artificial Intelligence) World Cup 2018 in August, and this time it is open to the ...
Strings of electron-carrying proteins may hold the secret to ‘electric bacteria’
Credit: Sahand Pirbadian of USC Dornsife and Poorna Subramanian of Caltech Could a unique bacterium be nature's microscopic power plant? ...
Rational protein engineering can improve effectiveness of mRNA therapies
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 30, 2018 -- mRNA drugs offer a promising new approach ...
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Healthy men who have vaginal sex have a distinct urethral microbiome
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BetaLife and A*STAR Collaborate to develop next generation cell-based therapy for diabetes treatment
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Genetic causes of three previously unexplained rare diseases identified
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Promoting healthy longevity should start young: pregnancy complications lift women’s risk of mortality in the next 50 years
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Robot caterpillar demonstrates new approach to locomotion for soft robotics
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Can artificial intelligence predict spatiotemporal distribution of dengue fever outbreaks with remote sensing data? New study finds answers