When Leonardo DiCaprio accepted his Oscar for Best Actor in ‘The Revenant’ this year, he…
Month: March 2016
Towards the goal of precision therapy in hepatocellular carcinoma
Hepatocellular carcinoma is a highly lethal disease, therefore effective and tolerable treatment is urgently needed….
Dementia plaques attack language center of brain
The recent ability to peer into the brain of living individuals with a rare type…
Plasma processing technique takes SNS accelerator to new energy highs
A novel technique known as in-situ plasma processing is helping scientists get more neutrons and…
New therapeutic target in myeloma discovered
Targeting both CDK4 and ARK5, proteins responsible for maintaining energy balance within the cell, was…
Discovery identifies new treatment target for age-releated macular degeneration, Alzheimer’s
For the first time, researchers have shown that a protein critical to the body’s ability…
Drug-loaded nanocarriers in tumor targeted drug delivery
Nanoparticulate delivery systems in cancer therapies provide better penetration of therapeutic and diagnostic substances with…
Leaf mysteries revealed through the computer’s eye
A computer program that learns and can categorize leaves into large evolutionary categories such as…
Scaling up tissue engineering
A method has been created for 3-D bioprinting thick vascularized tissue constructs composed of human…
Huntington’s disease gene dispensable in adult mice
Adult mice don’t need the gene that, when mutated in humans, causes the inherited neurodegenerative…