New grant funds study of very aggressive childhood brain cancers driven by circular pieces of DNA
Lukas Chavez, Ph.D., has received $3.2 million from the National Institutes of Health to study how unique DNA circles found ...
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La Brea megafaunal extinctions driven by fires 13,000 years ago
Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions from Southern California were driven by large-scale fires in an ecosystem made increasingly vulnerable by climate change ...
Attitudes toward minorities with dual social identities appear to be driven more by the positive influence of the shared identity than the potential negative influence of the unshared foreign identity
In a new study, the attitudes of non-Muslim American participants towards Muslim Americans who identified strongly with both parts of ...
Past climate warming driven by hydrothermal vents
About 55 million years ago, the Atlantic Ocean was born. Until then, Europe and America were connected. As the continents ...
Lifespan of ageing science’s model organism driven by reproductive self-destruction
The lifespan of a small roundworm that has been used as a key model organism in ageing research is limited ...
New theory developed for periodically driven quantum dots-cavity system
A team led by Prof. GUO Guoping and Prof. CAO Gang from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of ...
Jaw shapes of 90 shark species show: Evolution driven by habitat
An international research team led by Faviel A. López-Romero of the University of Vienna investigated how the jaw shape of ...
What should we call evolution driven by genetic engineering? Genetic welding, says researcher
With CRISPR-Cas9 technology, humans can now rapidly change the evolutionary course of animals or plants by inserting genes that can ...
Tumour cells’ response to chemotherapy is driven by randomness
Cancer cells have an innate randomness in their ability to respond to chemotherapy, which is another tool in their arsenal ...
Prehistoric human migration in Southeast Asia driven by sea-level rise, NTU Singapore study reveals
An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU, Singapore) has found that rapid sea-level rise drove early ...
Herpes vaccines could mean billions of dollars of cost savings and prevent the loss of millions of quality of life years by reducing HSV-2 infections and HSV-2 driven HIV infections, according to a modelling study in 90 low and middle income countrie…
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Aging is driven by unbalanced genes
New study finds that most molecular-level changes that occur during aging are associated with gene length Organisms balance the activity of ...
Virginia Tech engineers receive NSF grant to research optically driven semiconductor technology
At the intersection of future semiconductor technologies and the reduction of greenhouse gasses emitted by the U.S. power grid is ...
Pulses driven by artificial intelligence tame quantum systems
It’s easy to control the trajectory of a basketball: all we have to do is apply mechanical force coupled with ...
Sex roles in the animal kingdom are driven by the ratio of females to males
How picky should females and males be when they choose a mate? How fiercely should they compete for mates? And ...
Myocarditis in cancer patients is driven by specific immune cells
In a new study, researchers from UC San Francisco and Vanderbilt University Medical Center have identified specific immune cells that ...
Evolution of tree roots may have driven mass extinctions
The evolution of tree roots may have triggered a series of mass extinctions that rocked the Earth’s oceans during the ...
Heat waves driven by climate change have cost global economy trillions since 1990s
Massive economic losses due to sweltering temperatures brought on by human-caused climate change are not just a problem for the ...
Anti-cancer drugs, olaparib and adavosertib, work best when given sequentially in patients with advanced tumours driven by DNA damage response mutations: results from Phase Ib STAR clinical trial
Barcelona, Spain: Patients with cancers that are driven by certain mutations occurring in response to DNA damage can be safely ...
Selection of human immune-related genes was driven by the Black Death
The Black Death was the single greatest mortality event in recorded history, killing up to 50% of the European population ...
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal
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Important additional driver of insect decline identified: Weather explains the decline and rise of insect biomass over 34 years
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Fish reveal cause of altered human facial development
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New study definitively confirms gulf stream weakening, understanding the changes could help predict future trends in extreme events
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New findings on hair loss in men
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UCLA-led team develops key improvement to Nobel Prize-winning technology