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Cirrhosis Treatment Effectiveness Linked to AE2 Protein Discovery

The discovery involved the role played by the AE2 protein when the patient is treated with a combination of ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) together with…

Medical Engineering

Success of Pin Point Radiotherapy in Breast Cancer Treatment

The study, published today (27 Feb) in the peer-reviewed journal ecancermedicalscience, examined the use of Electron Intraoperative Therapy (ELIOT), which…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Discovery Aims to Aid Schizophrenia Treatment

Over one thousand people in Northern Ireland have been involved in the study carried out by Dr Tony O’Neill from the School of Medicine and Dentistry and two…

Earth Sciences

Rock Studies Reveal Insights on Glacier Thinning in West Antarctica

Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Durham University and Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) collected boulders…

Health & Medicine

Detecting Bone Erosion in Arthritic Wrists: New Insights

Uffe Møller Døhn from the Copenhagen University Hospital at Hvidovre in Denmark and co-workers carried out CT, MRI and radiography on the wrist joints of 17 RA…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Discovery Enhances Drought-Tolerant Crop Development

The discovery can aid the development of drought-tolerant crops. The article is published online ahead of print in Nature’s Advance Online Publication (AOP) on…

Health & Medicine

Breast Cancer Subtypes Impact Survival from Brain Tumors

A study published in the open access journal Breast Cancer Research shows that patients with tumours that are negative for estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone…

Studies and Analyses

Children’s under-achievement could be down to poor working memory

The researchers from Durham University, who surveyed over three thousand children, found that ten per cent of school children across all age ranges suffer from…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Target Protein Driving Ovarian Cancer Growth

A protein that stimulates blood vessel growth worsens ovarian cancer, but its production can be stifled by a tiny bit of RNA wrapped in a fatty nanoparticle, a…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Taste: The Link Between Flavor and Survival

Despite the significance of taste to both human gratification and survival, a basic understanding of this primal sense is still unfolding. Taste provides both…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Swift satellite images a galaxy ablaze with starbirth

The Triangulum Galaxy is also called M33 for being the 33rd object in Charles Messier's sky catalog. It is located about 2.9 million light-years from Earth in…

Life & Chemistry

New Combination Vaccine Shields Monkeys from Ebola & Marburg

“VLPs are one of the most promising candidates for protecting humans against Ebola and Marburg virus infections,” says Dr. Kelly Warfield, a researcher at…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Links ESA Use to Higher Death Risk in Cancer Patients

A meta-analysis of 51 trials with 13,613 patients revealed a 10 percent increased risk of death among cancer patients taking ESAs compared to patients who did…

Health & Medicine

Minimally Invasive Fibroid Treatment Shows Promising Results

“After two years, patients who had undergone UAE reported health-related quality of life equal to that of women who had undergone hysterectomy,” said study…

Life & Chemistry

Maya Blue Mystery Unveiled: How Ancient Maya Created Pigment

Anthropologists from Wheaton College (Illinois) and The Field Museum have discovered how the ancient Maya produced an unusual and widely studied blue pigment…

Environmental Conservation

5th Annual Bonefish Census Results: Florida Keys Update

Results are in from last year’s fifth annual Bonefish Population Census in the Florida Keys and the bonefish population has remained fairly steady from 2006,…

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