Smarter city planning: MSU researchers use brain activity to predict visits to urban areas
Michigan State UniversitySmarter city planning: MSU researchers use brain activity to predict visits to urban areas
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UVA Health Tests Focused Ultrasound to Battle Deadly Melanoma
News ReviewA research team at UVA Health is testing the ability of focused ultrasound to increase the immune response to immunotherapy in melanoma. UVA鈥檚 work with focused ultrasound already has led to life-changing new treatments for Parkinson鈥檚 disease and essential tremor and pushed the technology to the forefront of medical research.
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UAH atmospheric researchers find disadvantaged urban populations are subject to greater heat stress, poor air quality
University of Alabama HuntsvilleResearchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have employed a NASA open-source program to reveal that disadvantaged populations may be subject to greater heat stress and poor air quality. For this study, the researchers focused on Houston, Tex. Combining changes in heat and land cover with Houston's socioeconomic data demonstrated that economically disadvantaged populations are subject to greater heat stress.
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Researchers Zero In On Genetic Variant Tied to Miscarriages
Rutgers University-New BrunswickIn what could be a major advance in understanding the genetic causes underlying human infertility, scientists led by researchers from Rutgers University-New Brunswick have identified a gene variant directly tied to early miscarriages in women. The discovery of the variant is linked to accelerated reproductive aging, a condition producing high numbers of abnormal eggs that can lead to miscarriages.
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Study reveals how deadly brain tumor evades treatment; identifies potential new treatment strategy
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health SciencesA UCLA study helps explain why glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer, becomes resistant to treatment, and introduces a new approach that paves the way for more personalized treatment strategies for patients with this deadly brain tumor.
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Scientists Implicate a Novel Cellular Protein in Hepatitis A Infection
University of North Carolina School of MedicineScientists have long been trying to tease apart hepatitis A virus, to understand its inner workings and how it functions in the human body. Infectious disease researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have discovered that a little-known protein, PDGFA-associated protein 1 (PDAP1), is used as a pawn by hepatitis A virus to replicate and infect cells in the liver.
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Wistar Institute Researchers Discover New Combination Therapy Approach for Metastatic Ovarian Cancer
Wistar InstituteThe Wistar Institute scientists have discovered a new approach to treating ovarian cancer that, in preclinical laboratory testing, shrinks tumors and improves survival rates while simultaneously making tumors more receptive to chemotherapy treatment.
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NASA's Hubble Finds Sizzling Details About Young Star FU Orionis
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)Young star FU Orionis is pretty shocking! Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to observe the sizzling star in ultraviolet light. At 16,000 kelvins, nearly three times our sun鈥檚 surface temperature, its disk is nearly twice as hot as prior models have calculated.
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Standing guard against network invaders
Idaho National Laboratory (INL)Standing guard against network invaders
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Breaking barriers: How a fresh perspective helped solve challenges in nuclear safeguards
Idaho National Laboratory (INL)Breaking barriers: How a fresh perspective helped solve challenges in nuclear safeguards
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