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Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma Shows Resistance to Sunitinib

Of the more than 38,000 Americans diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) each year, approximately 20 percent have non-clear cell forms of the disease. New…

Studies and Analyses

Patients’ problems often misunderstood by caring staff

“To limit this problem, specific courses in communication should be included in the training of health-care personnel,” she says. She defended her dissertation…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Boosting Milk Nitrogen: Insights from ARS Research

ARS soil scientist J. Mark Powell at the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center in Madison, Wis., worked with ARS agricultural engineer Clarence Rotz at the ARS…

Life & Chemistry

Whales Evolved: Insights from 35 Million Years of Change

To answer that, UCLA evolutionary biologists and a colleague used molecular and computational techniques to look back 35 million years, when the ancestor of…

Health & Medicine

Cold Sore Virus Linked to Cognitive Issues in Schizophrenia

“We're finding that some portion of cognitive impairment usually blamed solely on the disease of schizophrenia might actually be a combination of schizophrenia…

Health & Medicine

Yale researchers develop test to identify 'best' sperm

“Our results could help address the fact that approximately 40 percent of infertility cases can be traced to male infertility,” said the senior author of the…

Life & Chemistry

Prenatal BPA and DES Exposure Linked to Breast Cancer Risk

BPA, DES and similar compounds are known as endocrine-disrupting chemicals, which are substances in the environment that interfere with the proper functioning…

Life & Chemistry

Ancient Chinese Sticky Rice Mortar: A Construction Breakthrough

They also concluded that the mortar ¯ a paste used to bind and fill gaps between bricks, stone blocks and other construction materials ¯ remains the best…

Studies and Analyses

Surgery vs. Drug Therapy: Best Treatment for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

Overall, results show: – Urinary incontinence was a common condition, coexisting with BPH/lower urinary tract symptoms. In the community setting, patients…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Linked to Birth Defects Discovered by Researchers

The work, co-led by geneticists at the University of Leeds, together with colleagues from institutes and universities in Paris, Rome and San Diego, should…

Life & Chemistry

New Genes Linked to Throat Cancer Identified in Major Study

Scientists from Singapore, China and USA have identified three new susceptibility genes in a genome-wide association study of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC)….

Materials Sciences

Pure Graphene Production: Liquid Method Breakthrough

In a development that could lead to novel carbon composites and touch-screen displays, researchers from Rice University and the Technion-Israel Institute of…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Precision: Advances in High-Resolution NMR Spectrometry

High-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometry is one of the most powerful analytical tools for the precise determination of molecular…

Health & Medicine

Acupuncture's molecular effects pinned down

In a paper published online May 30 in Nature Neuroscience, a team at the University of Rochester Medical Center identifies the molecule adenosine as a central…

Process Engineering

AIJU Enhances Flexible Polyolefin Painting with Plasma Innovation

Nowadays, plastic materials are the most used raw material in the toy sector, because of its good adaptation to any designs, physic-chemical characteristics,…

Information Technology

Faster Computers: Nanotechnology’s Role in Electronics Innovation

Silicon is subject to certain limitations, and industry is looking for a replacement. The electronics industry has net annual sales of over USD 200 billion,…

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