An American undergraduate science program delves deeply into the bacteriophage genome, and publishes a paper…
Month: May 2015
Graphene holds key to unlocking creation of wearable electronic devices
Groundbreaking research has successfully created the world’s first truly electronic textile, using the wonder material,…
Advanced viral gene therapy eradicates prostate cancer in preclinical experiments
Even with the best available treatments, the median survival of patients with metastatic, hormone-refractory prostate…
‘Thinspiration’ images of women on social media sites examined
Some of the most popular social media sites are filled with images of extremely thin…
System designed to label visual scenes turns out to detect particular objects too
Object recognition — determining what objects are where in a digital image — is a…
Biologist advances cancer research with new data analysis techniques
Patience and persistence are beginning to pay off for one researcher whose research about the…
Altering genes with the aid of light
Scientists have been manipulating genes for a while. Now researchers have found a way to…
Tracking defects caused by brain tumor mutation yields insight to advance targeted therapy
Scientists have gained ground toward developing more targeted therapies for the most common childhood brain…
Eat dark chocolate to beat the midday slump?
An EEG study shows chocolate can increase brain characteristics of attention and significantly affect blood…
New combination treatment strategy to ‘checkmate’ glioblastoma
Therapies that specifically target mutations in a person’s cancer have been much-heralded in recent years,…