Tracing a cancer’s family tree to its roots reveals how tumors grow
Over time, cancer cells can evolve to become resistant to treatment, more aggressive, and metastatic—capable of spreading to additional sites ...
Tag: roots
Kudzu Roots and Soy Molasses may help treat three types of cancer especially kids’
Soy molasses and kudzu roots contain isoflavonoids with high antioxidant and cytotoxic activity, scientists have discovered. Substances can help fight ...
Salt marsh grass on Georgia’s coast gets nutrients for growth from helpful bacteria in its roots
Salt marshes cover much of the state of Georgia’s coast and perform key "ecosystem services” for people. They clean the ...
What lies beneath: Roots as drivers of South African landscape pattern
--EMBARGOED until FEB. 14 at 3 p.m EST-- Credit: Mingzhen Lu --EMBARGOED until FEB. 14 at 3 p.m EST-- We ...
Privacy’s evolutionary roots may help shape its future in the digital age
In a Policy Forum, Alessandro Acquisti and colleagues argue that the evolutionary roots of human privacy could teach a lesson ...
Untangling the roots of plant genomes: Supporting a “moonshot” for botany
Research featured this month in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences highlights the progress of plant genomics and includes ...
Bioenergy sorghum’s roots can replenish carbon in soil
The world faces an increasing amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and a shortage of carbon in the soil. ...
Shoots and roots respond differently to climate change
A new synthesis conducted by a group of international scientists including Madhav P. Thakur from the University of Bern reveals mismatches between ...
Storing energy in plants with electronic roots
By watering bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris) with a solution that contains conjugated oligomers, researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, ...
Why roots don’t grow in the shade
When a plant finds itself in too much shade, it redirects its resources to reach for light. Crop yield and ...
Deep roots of the ‘Anthropocene’ can be found in tropical forests
Tropical forests regularly appear in the news as the front line of climate change and human sustainability challenges. They are ...
-
How to MRI your dragon: Illinois researchers develop first bearded dragon brain atlas
-
Immune molecules from a llama could provide protection against a vast array of SARS-like viruses including COVID-19, researchers say
-
Researchers perform non-line-of-sight ghost imaging with human vision
-
Unique blend of comics and humor is key to success of public awareness posters in Singapore, finds Singapore-US researchers
-
Human urine-derived stem cells have robust regenerative potential
-
Researchers develop word-score model capable of estimating hidden hearing loss