It is well known that men and women differ in terms of cancer susceptibility, survival…
Month: May 2016
Daily up and down of the plankton animals in the sea
A unique series of measurements taken over several years in the Antarctic Ocean provide new…
Study shows possible ‘key’ to improved therapy for adrenocortical carcinoma
Significant new findings about adrenocortical carcinoma, a rare cancer with an often poor prognosis, have…
Stochastic resonance, chaos transfer shown in an optomechanical microresonator
A novel route to encode chaos on light in an optomechanical microresonator system has been…
International collaboration for genome analysis leads to clues about rare cancer
An international team of researchers through The Cancer Genome Atlas Network uncovered double the number…
Experimental therapy halts treatment-resistant brain tumors in mouse model
Researchers report an experimental therapy that in laboratory tests stops aggressive, treatment-resistant and deadly brain…
Fewer overweight or obese children in Canada after years of increased rates
After years of increases, the rates of children who are overweight or obese are declining…
E-cigarettes not meeting potential as ‘disruptive technology,’ study shows
Most smokers who have tried electronic cigarettes have rejected them as less satisfying than regular…
Antarctic whales and the krill they eat
The Western Antarctic sector of the Southern Ocean is the regular feeding ground of a…
First single-enzyme method to produce quantum dots revealed
Engineers have successfully demonstrated the first precisely controlled, biological way to manufacture quantum dots using…