New glioma drug exploits DNA repair defects to selectively target drug-resistant tumors
A new class of glioma drugs exploits tumors that lack the DNA repair enzyme MGMT; the drugs lead to the ...
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For people with heart defects, mental health support is essential to care at every age
Embargoed until 4 a.m. CT / 5 a.m. ET Thursday, July 14, 2022 DALLAS, July 14, 2022 — Although many ...
Digital solutions for defects in large-scale concrete construction
Researchers to develop digital solutions for defects in large-scale concrete construction A team of researchers at Swansea University have been ...
“Soft” CRISPR may offer a new fix for genetic defects
Curing debilitating genetic diseases is one of the great challenges of modern medicine. During the past decade, development of CRISPR ...
Study reveals how epilepsy and migraine drug causes birth defects
Valproic acid—a drug used to treat epilepsy, migraine, and bipolar disorder—can cause birth defects when taken during pregnancy. Now, a ...
Korea Maritime and Ocean University scholars find key to reducing defects in multimaterials
Materials used in the fields of aerospace, automobiles, medical equipment, defense need to withstand extremely harsh environments. Small flaws in ...
Joubert Syndrome: the link between intellectual disability and defects in the hippocampus
An important link has been found between the intellectual disability experienced by children with the rare disease Joubert Syndrome (JS) ...
New research sheds light on causes of reproductive disorders, infertility, miscarriage, birth defects
Researchers at Rutgers University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University, and Cornell University are teaming up to examine how ...
People with heart defects may be at greater risk for severe COVID-19 illness
Embargoed until 4 a.m. CT/5 a.m. ET Monday, March 7, 2022 DALLAS, March 7, 2022 — People with a congenital heart ...
HKUST and UChicago researchers find new ways of leveraging topological defects in liquid crystals to make “computer”
Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the University of Chicago (UChicago) have shown for ...
NIST researchers resurrect and improve a technique for detecting transistor defects
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have revived and improved a once-reliable technique to identify and ...
Directional management of interface defects achieved in perovskite solar cells
Organic-inorganic halide perovskite materials have excellent optical capture capacity and carrier conductivity. Perovskite solar cells, with amazing power conversion efficiency, ...
Can defects turn inert materials into useful, active ones?
Demonstrating that a material thought to be always chemically inert, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), can be turned chemically active holds ...
Genetic study of heart defects and autism finds new causative genes
Researchers identified almost two dozen genes that contribute to heart defects by studying genetic data from people born with congenital ...
Non-thermal atmospheric plasma stimulates new bone formation in critical bone defects of animal model
Osaka, Japan – Recent technological innovations which have allowed plasma to be generated at room temperature and at ambient atmosphere ...
SMART researchers discover new way to generate light through use of pre-existing defects in semiconductor materials
Researchers from the Low Energy Electronic Systems (LEES) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in ...
Most mothers born with heart defects can become pregnant and give birth safely
Most women who are born with heart defects can safely become pregnant and give birth to healthy babies with few ...
NIST, collaborators develop sensitive new way of detecting transistor defects
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and collaborators have devised and tested a new, highly sensitive ...
Cannabis causes birth defects in susceptible mice
Cannabis, also known as weed or marijuana, is used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Although restricted in most ...
New study suggests that aquaporin could be key to repairing corneal defects
Philadelphia, September 29, 2021 – Corneal defects often heal themselves, but serious injuries that are left untreated can result in ...