Monthly Archives: Novembre 2018
A new discovery could have implications for therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases
A new discovery by an international research team—co-led by UBC Canada 150 Research Chair Josef Penninger and Harvard Medical School neurobiologist Clifford Woolf—could have...
Colds and chronic disease affect DNA expression
We're all born with a DNA sequence that encodes (in the form of genes) the very traits that make us, us—eye color, height, and...
Newborn breastfed babies’ saliva combines with breastmilk to release antibacterial compounds that help to...
Newborn breastfed babies' saliva combines with breastmilk to release antibacterial compounds that help to shape the bacterial communities (microbiota) in babies' mouths, biomedical scientists...
Researchers have taken an ordinary white button mushroom from a grocery store and made...
In their latest feat of engineering, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have taken an ordinary white button mushroom from a grocery store and...
SpiNNaker : supercomputer with a million processing cores and 1200 interconnected circuit boards that...
Scientists just activated the world's biggest "brain": a supercomputer with a million processing cores and 1,200 interconnected circuit boards that together operate like a...
Of all of our senses, hearing is the only one that has long been...
Of all of our senses, hearing is the only one that has long been suspected as being "on" all the time—even in our sleep.
Sounds...
Bacteria resistant to antibiotics – 33000 people die each year as a direct consequence...
An ECDC study estimates the burden of five types of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria of public health concern in the European Union and...
Researchers succeeded in preventing allergic asthma from progressing in experimental models by increasing the...
A group of Brazilian researchers succeeded in preventing allergic asthma from progressing in experimental models by increasing the amount of a certain protein.
This increase,...
Melbourne scientists have discovered how tumour development is driven by mutations in the most...
Melbourne scientists have discovered how tumour development is driven by mutations in the most important gene in preventing cancer, p53.
The research revealed that in...
Machine learning tool could help choose first-line chemotherapy drug
The selection of a first-line chemotherapy drug to treat many types of cancer is often a clear-cut decision governed by standard-of-care protocols, but what...
Human lifespans are increasing by approximately three years every generation
Stanford biologist Shripad Tuljapurkar had assumed humans were approaching the limit to their longevity – that's what previous research had suggested – but what...
Heart rate reactivity is a biological moderator between peer victimization (bullying) and internalizing problems...
Penn State Scranton assistant professors of psychology Karin Machluf and P. Douglas Sellers II, along with their colleague, Christopher Aults from King's College in...
The rise in opioid-related overdose deaths in the last two decades is widely regarded...
Most government-funded initiatives to address the overdose epidemic in the United States have targeted opioids specifically and have neglected other drugs that are increasingly...
Critical vulnerabilities in self-encrypting solid state drives (SSD) allow an attacker to decrypt...
We all have something to hide, something to protect. But if you are also relying on self-encrypting drives for that, then you should read...
Researchers have developed a deep alignment network (DAN) model to classify and visualize emotions
Researchers at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology and Warsaw University of Technology have developed a deep alignment network (DAN) model to classify and...
