After two hours, special nanoparticles accumulated in cancer cells (red and yellow) in mice and destroyed most of the tumor within a day (right).
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Many cancer patients survive treatment only to have a recurrence within a few...
Glioma is one of the most common types of cancerous tumors originating in the brain.
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New research further illuminates the surprising relationship between blood sugar and brain tumors and could begin to shed light on how...
Using data from the Rotterdam Study researchers determined that frequent coffee and herbal tea consumption were inversely related with liver stiffness but not steatosis in the general population.
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Chronic liver diseases rank as the...
The biofuel cell can stretch and flex, conforming to the human body.
Credit: University of California San Diego
A team of engineers has developed stretchable fuel cells that extract energy from sweat and are capable of powering electronics, such as LEDs...
Participants of the study were asked to judge whether the people in the photos were yawning or not.
Credit: Chia-huei Tseng
Contagious yawning is a universal phenomenon, but why it happens remains a mystery.
A new study out of...
Hormones levels in new dads affect mood and relationships, researchers say. (Stock image)
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Postpartum depression is often associated with mothers, but a new study shows that fathers face a higher risk of experiencing it themselves...
Illustration of acoustic pattern of mouth clicks for human echolocation.
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Like some bats and marine mammals, people can develop expert echolocation skills, in which they produce a clicking sound with their mouths and listen...
Our ability to resist yawning when someone else near us yawns is limited.
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Feeling tired? Even if we aren't tired, why do we yawn if someone else does? Experts at the University of Nottingham...
The key steps in lung bioengineering using a functional vascularized lung scaffold.
Credit: N. Valerio Dorrello and Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Columbia University
End-stage lung disease is the third leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for 400,000 deaths per year in...
Older people are as good as young adults at knowing when someone is potentially aggressive, and being streetwise appears to be a skill honed in childhood but not fully reliable until adulthood.
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Our gut...
The three chemicals tested in this study are abundant in modern life, say researchers.
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Can chemicals that are added to breakfast cereals and other everyday products make you obese? Growing evidence from animal...
