Unraveling the Mechanisms Behind Resistance to Novel Cancer Therapies
Scientists uncover key resistance mechanism to Wnt inhibitors in pancreatic and colorectal cancers
Last gasp hotel
Is inhalation of pollutant nanoparticles a cause of cardiovascular disease?
Warm plastic water bottle danger?
A new study from the University of Florida conducted in China suggests that the storage of plastic bottles needs to be examined with testing for BPA
Bridging the Gap Between Semiconductor Photons and Atomic Memory
In an important advance, researchers have successfully interfaced two promising platforms for quantum technologies — semiconductor quantum dots and atomic quantum memories. Led by Dr. Sarah Thomas of Imperial College London, the international collaboration...
Deceit and theft in micro-plastic research?
The study probably helped propagate some of the Facebook sharing of articles that described the damage plastic microparticles did to fish but after a report from a Swedish ethics committee the authors Peter Eklöv and Oona Lönnstedt are retracting their controversial...
The long road of signalling research
Main stream media heralds each new discovery of a signalling molecule as a breakthrough, the reality is that it's a long road to truly elucidating how each discovery fits within their environment.The Ser and Thr kinase AKT, also known as protein kinase B (PKB), was...
Back to the black stuff?
"A vinyl recording is probably the closest you can get to hearing what the original artist intended us to hear" Since 2007 something has been stirring or rather revolving. Vinyl sales having been on the brink of extinction have been steadily climbing. The...
The new premier league players
“The bees solved the task in a different way than what was demonstrated, suggesting that observer bees did not simply copy what they saw, but improved on it,” Dr Olli J. Loukola Queen Mary, University of London's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences...
A new way to calibrate the postmortem clock?
It's almost in every detective film or novel, the line where the detective asks the pathologist 'What was the time of death?'. The postmortem interval (PMI) as it is defined contains the answer to that question. There are several methods to evaluate the...
After 11 years, Boston Dynamics has said goodbye to its humanoid robot ATLAS HD. The robotics company says it’s time for ATLAS to “kick back and relax” in retirement, letting the new all electric ATLAS take over. This video was shared to remember ATLAS HD’s great moments and those not so great.
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