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Credit: Amsterdam University Medical Centers An electronic nose that detects chemicals in the breath of lung cancer patients can identify with 85% accuracy those who will or will not respond to immunotherapy, according to new…

A new study has estimated for the first time how the eruption of Mount Tambora changed the probability of the cold and wet European 'year without a summer' of 1816. It found that the observed cold conditions were almost impossible…

Radical approach to address issues with reproducibility and peer review A new journal from Cambridge University Press will take a radical new approach to both publishing and peer reviewing research. Experimental Results aims to tackle…

Advanced radiotherapy technology could safely deliver curative treatment for some prostate cancer patients in just one or two weeks, according to new research published today. Advanced radiotherapy technology could safely deliver…

The Penguin Genome Consortium sequences all living penguin species genomes to understand the evolution of life on the iceCredit: Photo by Laurie Goodman The Penguin Genome Consortium sequences all living penguin species…

Penn study shows benefit of radiation given 30 days or less before CAR T infusionCredit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Treating non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) patients with radiation therapy as an additional treatment while they wait for…

Biologists from the School of Arts and Sciences observed distinct shifts in the genomes of fruit flies fed different bacterial species after just five generationsCredit: Seth Rudman The expression "you are what you eat" has taken on new…

Blood cultures drawn after antimicrobial administration resulted in a loss of almost 50 percent of available clinical information Severe bacterial infections are a leading cause of death globally. Delays in effective treatment can increase…

Study identifies differences in gut microbiome composition in physically high-functioning vs low-functioning older adults, successfully transfers some of these effects into miceCredit: Pixabay BOSTON (Sept. 18, 2019)--A novel new study…

Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Terra satellite passed over the western Gulf of Mexico during the early afternoon of Sept. 17 and captured a visible image of the newly formed Tropical Depression 11. The eleventh tropical depression…