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Life & Chemistry

Starving Lung Tumors: New Insights in Cancer Treatment

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death throughout the world. Standard treatment methods do not usually result in long-term recovery. In addition to…

Health & Medicine

NOAA Unveils New Blood Marker for Seafood Toxin Detection

NOAA scientists and their colleagues have discovered a biological marker in the blood of laboratory zebrafish and marine mammals that shows when they have been…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Uses Moon as Mirror to Observe Venus Transit

Hubble cannot look at the sun directly, so astronomers are planning to point the telescope at the Earth's moon, using it as a mirror to capture reflected…

Life & Chemistry

Stem Cell Mutation Linked to Fibroid Tumor Development

Fibroid uterine tumors affect an estimated 15 million women in the United States, causing irregular bleeding, anemia, pain and infertility. Despite the high…

Health & Medicine

Higher Birth Defect Risks Linked to Assisted Reproduction

In the most comprehensive study of its kind in the world, researchers from the University's Robinson Institute have compared the risk of major birth defects…

Health & Medicine

New Pathway Discovered for Treating Visceral Obesity

Brown seems to be the color of choice when it comes to the types of fat cells in our bodies. Brown fat expends energy, while its counterpart, white fat stores…

Studies and Analyses

Diabetic Retinopathy Research Aims to Lower Screening Costs

Research carried out at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry (PCMD), University of Exeter, has concluded that it would be a safe and cost-effective…

Health & Medicine

Eye Color Linked to Increased Risk of Skin Conditions

Eye color may be an indicator of whether a person is high-risk for certain serious skin conditions. A study, led by the University of Colorado School of…

Earth Sciences

Solar Minimum: Impact on Europe’s Climate and Weather Patterns

An abrupt cooling in Europe together with an increase in humidity and particularly in windiness coincided with a sustained reduction in solar activity 2800…

Health & Medicine

Liver Fat Awakens: New Insights on Blood Sugar Control

Insulin resistance occurs when the body does a poor job of lowering blood sugars. Typically, patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes have fatty livers, and…

Health & Medicine

New Insights on Brain Networks: Avoiding Traffic Jams

“Many neurological and psychiatric conditions are likely to involve problems with signaling in brain networks,” says co-author Maurizio Corbetta, MD, the…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Markers in Prostate Cancer Predict Risk of Relapse

While active monitoring of serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels in men over 50 has greatly improved early detection of prostate cancer, prediction of…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Rearing System Enhances Sterile Insect Technique Against Mosquitoes

The requirement for efficient mosquito mass-rearing technology has been one of the major obstacles preventing the large scale application of the Sterile Insect…

Health & Medicine

Video Games May Aid Kids with Cerebral Palsy

Like their healthy peers, children with disabilities may spend too much time in front of a video screen. For children with cerebral palsy (CP), this leads to…

Power and Electrical Engineering

SmartCoDe Advances Transition to Renewable Energy Solutions

The edacentrum, an Institution advancing research and development in the area of Electronic Design Automation, has produced an informative video clip…

Materials Sciences

Thanks for the Memory: More Room for Data in ‘Phase-Change’ Material

The work was reported April 16 in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.The research focused on an inexpensive phase-change…

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