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Brain Cancer Patients With ‘T allele’ Live 5 Months Longer
The T allele is also predictive of a positive response to the standard cancer treatment, temozolomide.
Skin-Brain Communication Requires Reverberations
An optogenetic study in mice shows that sensing textures requires a two-stage brain circuit.
Samlonella Self-Acidifies To Survive Macrophages’ Acid Attack
The acidic environment of the macrophage vacuole not only fails to kill Salmonella but actually switches on bacterial survival genes.
Liquids Not As Uniform As Previously Thought
The identification of nanometer-sized structures formed during liquid-liquid transitions sheds new light on one of the fundamental states of matter.
Supernovae Ignitions Caused By Collisions, Not Internal Explosions
The complete lightcurves of three type 1a supernovae support the white dwarf merger theory of supernova formation.
Eisai To Make Clinical Trial Data Publicly Available
Requests for clinical trial data will be assessed by an independent review panel and the results released will be anonymized.
Do ‘Ant Repellents’ Protect Nectar Or Bees?
The amount of ant repelling compounds plants produce correlates to the size of the bee polinators they attract, study says.
Taiwanese MLD Patient Receives Genetically Modified Stem Cell Transplant
An 18 year old patient has seen an improvement in her condition following a stem cell transplant to treat metachromatic leukodystrophy.
NTU Leads Expedition To Assess Tsunami Risks
The month-long expedition to map the sea floor off Sumatra will provide open source data for the prediction of tsunami risks.