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Reducing the radioresistance of cancer
Kumamoto University (Japan) researchers revealed that when oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) cells are exposed to X-ray irradiation, interleukin-6 levels increase and activate the...
Gifted students benefit from ability grouping
Ability grouping places students of similar skills and abilities in the same classes. Image Credit: Flickr/breadfortheworld
Schools should use both ability grouping and acceleration to...
Miami doctors publish study of first locally-acquired Zika transmission
This is a rash on patient's stomach.Credit: The New England Journal of Medicine
Following the recent Zika outbreak in Miami-Dade County, a multidisciplinary team of...
Chemist develops new theory for explaining the function of proteins
Open and closed forms of channel proteins, which function by changing their shape. Credit: University of Arkansas
A University of Arkansas chemist and his collaborator...
Technique enables adaptable 3-D printing
MIT chemists have now developed a 3-D printing technique that allows them to print objects and then go back and add new polymers that...
Researchers find neurons that orient bats toward destination
Photo of an Egyptian fruit bat. Sarel et al. report on a new functional class of hippocampal neurons in bats, which encode the direction...
Scientists tie the tightest knot ever achieved
The X-ray crystal structure of a 192-atom-loop molecular 819 knot featuring iron ions (shown in purple), oxygen atoms (red), nitrogen atoms (dark blue), carbon...
Wearable biosensors can flag illness, Lyme disease, risk for diabetes; low airplane oxygen
Researchers found that smart watches and other personal biosensor devices can help flag when people have colds and even signal the onset of complex...
Crybaby: The Vitamins in Your Tears
The research team from Michigan Tech only needed to gather a few microliters of tears to analyze the vitamins in them.Credit: Sarah Bird, Michigan...
New system for forming memories
Rats roam around an arena (A) before tackling a maze memory task. A reward awaits them in the T-maze placed in the arena (B)....
Baboons produce vocalizations comparable to vowels
In situ image of the recorded baboons.Credit: © Caralyn Kemp and Julie Gullstrand / Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology (CNRS/AMU
Baboons produce vocalizations comparable to vowels....
