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Life & Chemistry

New Tool Enhances Cancer Treatment by Targeting IDO Enzyme

Many human tumors express indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), an enzyme which mediates an immune-escape in several cancer types. Researchers in the Molecular…

Studies and Analyses

Patients Often Gain Weight After Knee Surgery: Study Insights

Researchers Joseph Zeni and Lynn Snyder-Mackler in the Department of Physical Therapy in UD's College of Health Sciences found that patients typically drop…

Studies and Analyses

UC Davis Discovers Brain Protein Key to Synapse Development

A new study from UC Davis Health System identifies for the first time a brain protein called SynDIG1 that plays a critical role in creating and sustaining…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough in Imaging Cell Death: New Research Insights

Bradley D. Smith, Emil T. Hofman Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Notre Dame, points out that the group of researchers had previously discovered that…

Life & Chemistry

New Spiny Pocket Mouse Species Discovered by CCNY Biologists

Dr. Robert P. Anderson, Associate Professor of Biology at The City College of New York, and Ph.D. student Eliécer E. Gutiérrez have reported the existence of a…

Studies and Analyses

Blocking Frowns: Can Botox Improve Your Mood?

The new study reported on 40 people who were treated with botulinum toxin, or Botox. Tiny applications of this powerful nerve poison were used to deactivate…

Earth Sciences

Tropical Storm Olga Strengthens Over Gulf, Satellite Shows

NASA's Aqua satellite saw Olga's center re-entering the Gulf early on January 29, and satellite imagery indicated the storm was strengthening. Residents of the…

Earth Sciences

Tropical Storm Nisha Faces Wind Shear Challenges This Weekend

Nisha is not expected to maintain its tropical storm status this weekend, because it is being battered by wind shear. At 10 a.m. ET, January 29, Tropical Storm…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellites Track TD11S as It Transitions to Extra-Tropical

Tropical Depression 11S (TD 11S) had maximum sustained winds near 34 mph (30 knots) on January 29 at 09:00 UTC (4 a.m. ET). It was located about 320 nautical…

Studies and Analyses

New Insights on Fossil Ancestry from Decomposing Fish Studies

Decaying corpses are usually the domain of forensic scientists, but palaeontologists have discovered that studying rotting fish sheds new light on our earliest…

Life & Chemistry

Discovering Gene Functions: Unraveling Arabidopsis Mysteries

Despite immense progress in functional characterization of plant genomes, over 30% of the 30,000 Arabidopsis genes have not been functionally characterized…

Health & Medicine

Cochlear Implants Give Kids Quality of Life Similar to Peers

Children who have cochlear implants (CI) rank their quality of life (QOL) equal to their normally hearing (NH) peers, indicates new research in the February…

Health & Medicine

NIH Evaluates Risks of Low-Dose Radiation Exposure

There is much controversy surrounding diagnostic medical radiation exposure. “One widely publicized appraisal of medical radiation exposure suggested that…

Studies and Analyses

Study Finds Aging Adults May Need Less Sleep Over Time

Results show that during a night of eight hours in bed, total sleep time decreased significantly and progressively with age. Older adults slept about 20…

Information Technology

New Neuro-Computer Inspired by Brain Research Advances

They have been co-ordinating the European Union research project “Brain-i-Nets” (Novel Brain Inspired Learning Paradigms for Large-Scale Neuronal Networks) for…

Studies and Analyses

Undernourished Teens in Cameroon: Boys Outnumber Girls

Cameroon's population are changing their eating habits. Instead of traditional diets they are consuming more and more processed, sweet, and fat foods. The…

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