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NASA’s NEOWISE Mission Spies One Comet, Maybe Two
An artist’s rendition of 2016 WF9 as it passes Jupiter’s orbit inbound toward the sun.Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA's NEOWISE mission has recently discovered some celestial objects...
Artificial intelligence to generate new cancer drugs on demand
This is the Architecture of the Adversarial Autoencoder (AAE).Credit:Insilico Medicine
Summary:
Clinical trial failure rates for small molecules in oncology exceed 94% for molecules previously tested...
Divide and conquer pattern searching
A new data mining strategy that offers unprecedented pattern search speed could lead to new insights from massive data.© Mopic / Alamy Stock Photo...
Lab creates new class of hydrogen sulfide donor molecules
Illustration shows the delivery route of hydrogen sulfide to damaged cells based on two projects completed in the University of Oregon lab of Michael...
The caves that prove Neanderthals were cannibals
Image Credit: Flickr/Erich Ferdinand
Deep in the caves of Goyet in Belgium researchers have found the grisly evidence that the Neanderthals did not just feast...
Scientists develop novel assay to decode functional elements of genome
Zebrafish embryo superimposed with a 'Rosetta Stone' that reads: 'This paper identifies regulatory sequences in RNA by analyzing their regulatory function in a massive...
Researchers grow needle- and thread-like diamonds
Example of diamond crystallites of different shapes, obtained with the help of the technology, worked out in the Lomonosov Moscow State University. There are...
Image-based modeling: A novel tool for realistic simulations of artificial bone cultures
Scaffold modelled using image-based Lattice Boltzmann method. LEFT: Calculated shear stress (SS). RIGHT: Soft tis-sue is subtracted using image processing. Images represent a 0.62...
Most Doctors Ignore One of the Most Potent Ways to Improve Health
Escalating rungs of social support.Credit: Penn Medicine
Leveraging existing relationships with friends and family may be a more effective way to improve patients' health and...
Scientists uncover new way to defeat therapy-resistant prostate cancer
A new study led by scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) sheds light on a signaling circuit in cells...
Gut microorganisms affect our physiology
Researchers have found evidence that could shed new light on the complex community of trillions of microorganisms living in all our guts, and how...
