technologynetworks.com —  6+ hour, 12+ min ago

...An international team of researchers, including GFZ geochemist Christian Hallmann, now reports on this breakthrough for the field of evolutionary... ...The previously unknown “protosteroids” were shown to be surprisingly abundant throughout Earth´s Middle Ages.... ...Nobel laureate Konrad Bloch had already speculated about such a biomarker in an essay almost 30 years ago.... ...the University of Bremen, first author of the study--“due to potentially adverse health effects of elevated cholesterol levels in humans, cholesterol...

technologynetworks.com —  1+ hour, 56+ min ago

...People with ancestors who migrated out of Africa, particularly those of European ancestry, can have as much as 1–4% of their genome made up of Neanderthal... ...The researchers in the current study investigated this in more detail using data from the UK Biobank, a vast database of genetic and trait information... ...gene pool may have helped these ancient humans survive in the cold European climate as they encountered new environments in their migration out of Africa...

technologynetworks.com —  6+ hour, 37+ min ago

...Chromosomal instability has to do with changes to the number of chromosomes each cancer cell carries. ... ...A graduate student's curiosity has uncovered a previously unknown link between two important hallmarks of cancer: The resulting study, which was ... ...In his first year as a doctoral student in pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine, Albert Agustinus did a rotation in the lab of Samuel Bakhoum,... ...MD, PhD, whose research group at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) studies how alterations in the number and structure of chromosomes...

technologynetworks.com —  7+ hour, 17+ min ago

...The new understanding of biological matter can help answer questions that have dogged scientists for years.... ...A new paper published today in Nature upends that paradigm, and argues that the character of many biological materials is actually created by the... ...“I think this is a really special moment in science,” Ozgur Sahin, a professor of Biological Sciences and Physics and one of the paper"s authors,... ...Harrellson, who recently completed doctoral studies in Columbia"s physics department, and is an author on the study, used the metaphor of a building...

technologynetworks.com —  5+ hour, 32+ min ago

...Research, co-director of the de Duve Institute and professor of Tumor Immunology at the University of Oxford.... ...“Immunotherapy today can effectively fight only 30% to 40% of cancers,” said Benoît Van den Eynde, who is a member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer... ...But about thirty years ago, Thierry Boon and his colleagues at the former Brussels Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the de Duve... ...Reference: Zhu J, Naulaerts S, Boudhan L, Martin M, Gatto L, Van den Eynde BJ....

technologynetworks.com —  6+ hour, 52+ min ago

...Christina Scheel from the Skin Cancer Center at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, presents new mechanistic insights into how the most aggressive... ...Scheel"s tenure at the Helmholtz Center Munich and represents the fruits of a collaborative effort with researchers from German Cancer Center Heidelberg... ...Researchers from the Skin Cancer Center at Ruhr University Bochum, the Helmholtz Center Munich, the German Cancer Center Heidelberg and the ETH Zurich... ...Christina Scheel, one of the senior authors....

technologynetworks.com —  6+ hour, 17+ min ago

...New research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research suggests that further exploration of the placenta"s roles and capabilities may one day... ...“Following birth, the placenta is often tossed in the medical wastebin,” explained Stowers Investigator Jennifer Gerton, Ph.D.... ...Reference: Singh VP, Hassan H, Deng F, et al.... ...“Many people donate organs for scientific research,” said Singh....

technologynetworks.com —  6+ hour, 54+ min ago

...Jerlhag, professor of pharmacology at Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg.Mechanisms in the brainThe current study also examined... ...version of the diabetes medications that act on GLP-1 was found to reduce alcohol intake in overweight individuals with alcohol dependence,” says Elisabet...

technologynetworks.com —  6+ hour, 52+ min ago

...Christina Scheel from the Skin Cancer Center at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, presents new mechanistic insights into how the most aggressive... ...Scheel"s tenure at the Helmholtz Center Munich and represents the fruits of a collaborative effort with researchers from German Cancer Center Heidelberg... ...Researchers from the Skin Cancer Center at Ruhr University Bochum, the Helmholtz Center Munich, the German Cancer Center Heidelberg and the ETH Zurich... ...Christina Scheel, one of the senior authors....

technologynetworks.com —  7+ hour, 17+ min ago

...The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science's Isotope Program is developing and marketing novel radioactive isotopes for targeted alpha therapy... ...One method of making one isotope, actinium-225, involves bombarding radium targets with neutrons.... ...This research by scientists at Argonne National Laboratory explored new materials that could support and facilitate the efficient separation of radium... ...These efforts advance the DOE Isotope Program and its mission to conduct research and development on new and improved isotope production and processing...