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Medical Xpress / How brain signaling pathway can increase resilience to disease

A team of researchers at RPI, in collaboration with the University of South Florida, University of North Carolina, and The Neural Stem Cell Institute, have made a discovery that opens the door to new treatments for Alzheimer's ...

9 hours ago in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / New registry analysis links three-year childhood cancer survival to stage at diagnosis

A major study by UCL and Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan (INT) researchers has for the first time shown in detail how far children's cancer has spread at diagnosis in a way that can be compared between ...

10 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Improving predictions for 'tailor-made' wheat with AI and big data

Climate change and evolving growing conditions present new challenges for breeding. It is important to take local environmental conditions into account. An international team led by the IPK Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics ...

10 hours ago in Biology
Medical Xpress / Is social media time really harming teens? A UK study finds weak links overall

There is little evidence that the amount of time young people spend on social media is linked to later mental health issues, according to a new study. Research following more than 3,000 young people found that low to average ...

10 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / African climate science policy has a serious blind spot: The slowing Atlantic circulation

The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularized the devastating effects of sudden climate change on Earth. The plot dramatizes the consequences of a shut-down in an ocean current, and features ...

10 hours ago in Earth
Medical Xpress / Why your prescriptions may cost more: Three PBMs dominate most Part D markets

Just three pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) dominate retail prescriptions in Medicare Part D and Medicaid managed care across much of the country, with markets in nearly every state considered highly concentrated for at least ...

10 hours ago in Medical economics
Tech Xplore / Low-temperature, sinterless silica glass developed using 3D printing techniques

A research team has used advanced 3D printing techniques to develop low-temperature, "sinterless" silica glass. They converted 3D-printed objects into silica glass structures at significantly lower temperatures than traditional ...

10 hours ago in Engineering
Medical Xpress / First in-human study finds novel immune cell therapy is safe and effective in advanced lymphoma

In a first-in-human study, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center observed strong responses and early signs of antitumor activity in patients with difficult-to-treat non-Hodgkin lymphomas who received ...

10 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Stable high-energy pulses achieved with low-stress electro-optic switch

A research team led by Prof. Zhang Tianshu from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a low-stress electro-optic switch based on large-aperture β-barium borate (BBO) slab ...

11 hours ago in Physics
Phys.org / In Antarctica, balloon lands after 23-day search for particles from outer space

After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on Dec. 20, it would travel ...

13 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Tech Xplore / Power at the micrometer scale: A battery built for the smallest machines

Sensors small enough to disappear into the body, microrobots that move without wires, and smart systems hidden inside everyday materials—all require a battery to function. As electronics shrink towards the micrometer scale, ...

10 hours ago in Energy & Green Tech
Phys.org / Always sunny in Wrexham: Docuseries nets economic, social gains for city in Wales

When actors Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds bought a low-level Welsh soccer club in 2021, their goal was not just to save a sports team. In the FX docuseries "Welcome to Wrexham," which chronicles the stars' efforts to revitalize ...

11 hours ago in Other Sciences