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Duke Team Unveils New Insights Into Cancer Spread Mechanisms

Building on current technologies that detect tumor cells circulating in blood, the Duke team was able to characterize these cells in a new way, illuminating…

Health & Medicine

Lab-Grown Blood Vessels Successfully Implanted in Patients

For the first time, human blood vessels grown in a laboratory from donor skin cells have been successfully implanted into patients, according to new research…

Life & Chemistry

How Tongue Evolution Affects Chewing in Fish and Mammals

Evolution has made its marks — large and small — in innumerable patterns of life. New research from Brown University shows chewing has evolved too.Researchers…

Health & Medicine

UCI, French Researchers Identify Key Switch in Adult Epilepsy

UC Irvine and French researchers have identified a central switch responsible for the transformation of healthy brain cells into epileptic ones, opening the…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Imaging Method Reveals Molecules Inside Cells

Individual human cells are small, just one or two hundredths of a millimetre in diameter. As such, special measuring equipment is needed to distinguish the…

Health & Medicine

Asperger Syndrome Signs in Babies: Key Insights from Research

Several of these characteristics were evident to parents during their child’s first two years, reveals Petra Dewrang’s thesis in psychology at the University…

Studies and Analyses

Cell Phone Talks: Insights Into Parent-Adolescent Relationships

Robert Weisskirch, MSW, PhD, California State University, Monterey Bay (Seaside, CA) notes that parents can use a cell phone to extend their parenting reach:…

Studies and Analyses

Study Finds Brain Damage Risks in Young Adult Binge Drinkers

It’s considered a rite of passage among young people – acting out their independence through heavy, episodic drinking. But a new University of Cincinnati…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Antibody Diversity: The Role of Enzymes in Immunity

Why is antibody diversity important? Think about it like this, said Myron Goodman: “Why don’t you die when I sneeze? It’s because you have a powerful immune…

Studies and Analyses

1 in 20 Aussie Workers Admit Drinking at Work: Safety Concern

Researchers used data from the 2007 National Drug Strategy Household Survey (NDSHS), which polled over 23,000 Australian residents aged 12 and over on their…

Health & Medicine

Children’s hay fever relieved by cellulose power without adverse effects

Now, however, scientists from the Sahlgrenska Academy and the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at the University of Gothenburg have proven that…

Health & Medicine

Exercise Boosts Health of Intervertebral Discs, Study Finds

Physical exercise has a positive effect on the formation of cells in the intervertebral discs. This is shown by a study from the Sahlgrenska Academy,…

Health & Medicine

Intensive Care Nurses Question Brain Death Determination Methods

Intensive care nurses also perceive that this uncertainty can affect relatives when the question of organ donation is raised, is reveiled in a thesis from the…

Studies and Analyses

Shark Conservation: Addressing Declines and Protecting Futures

Shark populations over the last 50 years have decreased dramatically. From habitat degradation to overfishing and finning, human activities have affected their…

Life & Chemistry

Dielectron Charging: New Insights from Water Nano-Droplets

Working together at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Tel Aviv University, scientists have discovered when the number of water molecules in a cluster…

Physics & Astronomy

International team demonstrates subatomic quantum memory in diamond

The physicists were able to coax the fragile quantum information contained within a single electron in diamond to move into an adjacent single nitrogen…

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