Investigators have discovered a protein on the surface of lung cancer cells that could prove…
Month: November 2012
Health of kidney disease patients: Diet and blood pressure
Three studies provide new information on diet and blood pressure in kidney disease patients: adding…
Hurricane Sandy: Power outage prediction model was accurate
A team of researchers spent days tracking Hurricane Sandy’s power outage potential as the storm…
Antibiotics observed attacking tuberculosis: Mass spectrometry shows scientists how antibiotics function inside living bacteria
Researchers report that mass spectrometry, a tool currently used to detect and measure proteins and…
Super-rare, super-luminous supernovae are likely explosion of universe’s earliest stars
The most-distant, super-luminous supernovae found to date have been observed by an international team of…
Researchers target breast cancer in three trials
Researchers are attacking breast cancer in three separate trials, including one that uses a malarial…
Researchers use blood testing to predict level of enzymes that facilitate disease progression
Researchers are developing a technique for predicting from a simple blood sample the amount of…
Gene switch important in cancer discovered
Scientists have shown that the “switches” that regulate the expression of genes play a major…
Particle and wave-like behavior of light measured simultaneously
What is light made of: waves or particles? This basic question has fascinated physicists since…
Staying still or going hunting: Which works better for a hungry ocean microbe?
For the kinds of animals that are most familiar to us — ones that are…