A new study suggests the mantle — the mostly solid, rocky part of Earth’s interior…
Month: March 2017
More bang for the buck
Researchers have found cost-effective solutions to sediment runoff and other land-based pollution affecting West Maui…
Novel calculator more easily identifies patients who will benefit from neoadjuvant chemoradiation
A calculator to guide treatment choice in esophageal cancer has been developed by a team…
Link between microbiome in the gut, Parkinson’s discovered
Parkinson’s disease, and medications to treat Parkinson’s, have distinct effects on the composition of the…
Biochemical ‘fossil’ shows how life may have emerged without phosphate
One major mystery about life’s origin is how phosphate became an essential building block of…
Researchers report first known case of CTE in patient with no known head trauma
Researchers have discovered the presence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in the brain of a…
Nanoengineers 3-D print biomimetic blood vessel networks
Nanoengineers have 3-D printed a lifelike, functional blood vessel network that could pave the way…
Want more crop variety? Researchers propose using CRISPR to accelerate plant domestication
Out of the more than 300,000 plant species in existence, only three species — rice,…
Moonlighting function for mitochondrial-calcium influx machinery MCU complex
Mitochondria — the energy-generating powerhouses of cells — are also a site for oxidative stress…
Supramolecular protein fishing with molecular baits
Scientists have successfully isolated a cancer-prone protein by fishing out the proteins using ‘molecular bait’.