Patients with chronic kidney disease who received robot-assisted partial nephrectomy to treat kidney cancer have…
Month: January 2014
Scientists identify factors that trigger ALT-ernative cancer cell growth
Highly diverse cancers share one trait: the capacity for endless cell division. Unregulated growth is…
Two players produce destructive cascade of diabetic retinopathy
The retina can be bombarded by reactive oxygen species in diabetes, prompting events that destroy…
One question may gauge severity of unhealthy drug, alcohol use
Primary care physicians seeking to determine whether a patient’s drug or alcohol use is problematic…
Heart attack survivors paint complex picture of adhering to medicine
A new study shows that heart attack survivors adhere to their preventative medications differently depending…
Researchers investigating how to make PET imaging even sweeter
An international research team is testing its novel sugar-based tracer contrast agent to be used…
Walden Pond trees leafing out far earlier than in Thoreau’s time
Climate-change studies show leaf-out times of trees and shrubs at Walden Pond are an average…
Building ‘belt’ offers cheap, quick repair of earthquake damage
Four years after the January 2010 earthquake, 145,000 people still remain homeless in Haiti. A…
A new, more economical sonification prototype to assist the blind
Researchers have developed an assistive technology system that works by sounds which contributes to the…
Towards perfect control of light waves
Scientists have constructed a detector, which provides a detailed picture of the waveforms of femtosecond…