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Proton Therapy for Cancer Reduces Risk of Side Effects
A new study found that proton therapy is associated with fewer severe side effects than conventional X-ray radiation therapy.
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“Barcode” Test Divides Bowel Cancer Into 5 Diseases Could Help Tailor Treatments
Scientists have found that bowel cancer is actually five distinct diseases, with different biological characteristics which affect how they respond to drugs. The new genetic test can diagnose a person’s specific type of bowel cancer in a matter of hours and help tailor treatments to each individual disease.
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Supercomputer Helps Digitally Preserve Destroyed Syrian Temple
Archaeology researchers are benefitting from the University’s first high performance computing (HPC) system. Revolutionising the capacity for data collation, the HPC cluster enables the archaeological team to effectively preserve endangered or destroyed heritage across the world, the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Kathmandu and Notre Dame.
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New Framework Enhances Neural Network Performance
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a new framework for building deep neural networks via grammar-guided network generators. In experimental testing, the new networks - called AOGNets - have outperformed existing state-of-the-art frameworks, including the widely-used ResNet and DenseNet systems, in visual recognition tasks.
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Testing Personalized Treatments in 5 Days With 3D
Researchers have developed a cell co-culture platform that can reproduce a patient’s tumor in 3D and test the best treatment combinations for its specific case in just five days.
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World’s Smartest Computer Creates Model of Complex Protein Machinery
A team of researchers used the 200-petaflop IBM AC922 Summit system, the world's smartest and most powerful supercomputer, to develop an integrative model of the transcription preinitiation complex (PIC), a complex of proteins vital to gene expression.
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New Opioid Accelerates Recovery Time From Pain Compared to Morphine, Preclinical Study Shows
A new type of opioid doesn’t have the side effects (such as increased pain sensitivity or and increased risk of chronic pain) associated with morphine and other opioid-based painkillers, and accelerates recovery time from pain compared to morphine, according to a new preclinical study.
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What Next After GWAS?
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) look at large populations to find genes that contribute to common, multi-gene traits like height or obesity. These comprehensive studies frequently turn up large numbers of tiny genetic variations that occur more often in people who are tall, obese, etc. So which genes should scientists investigate further?
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New Open-source Solution for the Analysis of High Content Screening Data
A new open-source solution for the analysis of high content screening (HCS) data in biomedical research has been released.
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Researchers Observe Drug Target Assembling in Real-time
Over one-third of all FDA-approved drugs act on a specific family of proteins called G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). Researchers now show when and how different parts of a GPCR interacts with its G protein signaling partners.
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