IMAGE: Warren Bickel (left), a professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, collaborated with Christine Sheffer (right, on the computer
Month: November 2018
The complexity of the commons: Scientists recast social dilemmas
Whether it’s a pasture open to public grazing or a batch of glucose colonized by microbes, a shared environmental resource
Fine-tuning cell death: New component of death machinery revealed
An important component of the microscopic machinery that drives cell death has been identified by Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Parents learn, babies talk: How coaching moms and dads improves infants’ language skills
When it comes to helping infants learn to talk, it’s not just how much parents say, but how they say
Fred Hutch at ASH: Press briefing on CAR T-cell therapy, CRISPR for blood disorders, more
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s latest findings on cancer immunotherapies, CRISPR for blood disorders, stem cell transplantation and insights on
Big study of fishing communities finds good neighbors are hard to come by
IMAGE: Participants from communities along the coast of East Africa discuss fishing regulations at a recent fisher forum. Credit: E. Darling/WCS.
Draw-your-own electrodes set to speed up development of micro detection devices
Miniature devices for sensing biological molecules could be developed quicker thanks to a rapid prototyping method. Devices that sense and
Citrate-based biomaterial fuels bone healing with less rejection
A material based on a natural product of bones and citrus fruit, called citrate, provides the extra energy that stem
Some research may be encouraging ineffective prescriptions, says new study
A new paper published by McGill University researchers in JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that some clinical trials may promote the
Cancer researchers ID ‘Achilles heel’ of drug-resistant tumors
UC San Francisco scientists have figured out why some lung cancers become drug-resistant after initially responding to targeted therapies. In
