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Team targets tumor suppressor to treat ‘triple-negative’ breast cancer
A study by scientists at the University of Arizona Cancer Center and Cancer Research UK has found that the loss of a specific tumor...
Trains, planes, automobiles and heart disease
Noise may disrupt the body on the cellular level in a way that increases the risk of common heart disease risk factors, according to...
Scientists target glioma cancer stem cells, which could improve patient survival
Glioblastoma multiforme is the most common and aggressive primary brain tumor and has one of the worst survival rates of all cancers.
Despite surgery, radiation...
Autism might be better detected using new two-minute questionnaire
Researchers at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School have developed a two-minute questionnaire for parents that could help pediatricians and other primary care providers detect...
Fertility study offers unexpected lead on dwarfism
As components of two entirely separate systems in the body, you wouldn't think ovaries have much in common with bones. But it turns out...
How viruses disarm the immune system
How do viruses that cause chronic infections, such as HIV or hepatitis c virus, manage to outsmart their hosts' immune systems?
The answer to that...
Antioxidant therapy prevents devastating vision loss when added to standard-of-care on rare birth defect
A new study led by vision researchers at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo and VA Western...
How to Mitigate the Threat Cryptocurrency Mining Poses to Enterprise Security
The growing popularity of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is generating curiosity—and concern—among security specialists. Crypto mining software has been found on user machines, often...
Unpatched DoS Flaw Could Help Anyone Take Down WordPress Websites
A simple yet serious application-level denial of service (DoS) vulnerability has been discovered in WordPress CMS platform that could allow anyone to take down...
Israel carrying out secret airstrike campaign in Sinai to help Egypt
Unmarked IAF drones, fighter jets, and gunships are conducting attacks against jihadist insurgents at the behest of Sissi, The New York Times reports
Israeli drones,...
Patent talk: Amazon eyes workers’ bands, tracking
A tisket a tasket, want a green and yellow basket?
In 2018, Amazon, kingpin of fulfillment orders, would have to answer, you're kidding.
They need to...
Studies offer no clear answers on safety of cellphone use
Two government studies that bombarded rats and mice with cellphone radiation found a weak link to some heart tumors, but scientists and federal regulators...
Team in China grows ears and attaches them to human patients
A team of researchers in China has, for the first time, created new ears for human patients by growing cartilage and implanting it. In...
Researchers discover two-step process to thwart cancer cells
Scientists at the University of Delaware and the University of Illinois at Chicago have found a new way to kill liver cancer cells and...
As cancer survival rate grows, so does number of new cases
Even as cancer treatment improves and survival rates go up, so too does the number of people afflicted with the deadly disease, experts said...
