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Blocking Amino Acid Found in Asparagus Stops Spread of Breast Cancer
Scientists have discovered that an amino acid called asparagine is essential for breast cancer spread, and by restricting it, cancer cells stopped invading other parts of the body in mouse models, according to research published in the journal Nature.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific and BioDiscovery form Software Development Partnership
BioDiscovery initially began the partnership three years ago with Affymetrix, Inc. (before its acquisition by Thermo Fisher) and due to the success of the partnership at enabling cancer researchers to have access to high quality assay plus software, the two companies have elected to continue the partnership.
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Cancer ‘Signature’ First Step Toward Blood Test for Patients
A discovery by Melbourne researchers could help to identify patients with a particularly aggressive type of lung cancer that are likely to respond to immunotherapies currently used in the clinic to treat other cancers.
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Engineering a New Spin for Disease Diagnostics
Researchers at the National University of Singapore have created a new platform with the potential to extract tiny circulating biomarkers of disease from patient blood.
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Manure Could Heat Your Home
Researchers are developing technology to produce renewable natural gas from manure to heat homes and power industries. That would eliminate particularly harmful gases released by naturally decomposing manure when it is spread on farm fields as fertilizer and partially replace fossil natural gas, a significant contributor to global warming.
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Dr Alice Berger Receives $200K Grant for Lung Cancer Research
Dr. Alice Berger, a translational researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has received a $200,000, two-year award — the Lori Monroe Scholarship for Lung Cancer Research — to advance her scientific focus on the genetics of lung cancer in women who have never smoked.
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Self-Driving Robots Collect Water Samples to Create Snapshots of Ocean Microbes
For the first time, scientists will deploy a small fleet of long-range autonomous underwater vehicles (LRAUVs) that have the ability to collect and archive seawater samples automatically. These new robots will allow researchers to track and study ocean microbes in unprecedented detail.
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Advancing Next-Generation Semiconductors
Theoretical physicists and experimentalists have collaborated to identify dopants capable of enabling new designs of semiconducting materials.
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Computer Model Describes the "Architecture of Life"
The study looks past the molecules inside cell, and focuses on their shape and a principle called "tensegrity".
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CRISPR Creates a Malaria-Resistant Mosquito
An innovative technique for combating the disease could prevent mosquitoes from transmitting the disease to humans.
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