Using targeted microbubbles to administer toxic cancer drugs
New research has shown how microbubbles carrying powerful cancer drugs can be guided to the site of a tumor using antibodies.
New research has shown how microbubbles carrying powerful cancer drugs can be guided to the site of a tumor using antibodies.
Bio & Medicine
Dec 8, 2020
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Water tainted with even a small concentration of human hormones can have profound effects on fish, according to a University of Cincinnati biologist.
Plants & Animals
Oct 23, 2020
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Scientists can improve protein-based drugs by reaching into the evolutionary past, a paper published in Nature Biotechnology proposes.
Biotechnology
Sep 26, 2016
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(Phys.org) —It's a man's world for fish in a San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary. Silverside fish collected from an urban beach in Suisun Marsh were more masculinized, but with smaller and less healthy gonads, than were neighboring ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 26, 2013
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New research has provided the first evidence that 'gender bending' chemicals which find their way from human products into rivers and oceans can have a significant impact on the ability of fish to breed in UK Rivers.
Ecology
Oct 26, 2010
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Concerns are being raised across the U.S. about whether schools have a right to compel female athletes to provide information about their menstrual cycles.
Education
Feb 21, 2023
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Bone grafts, which are used to treat head injuries and birth defects, still pose major medical challenges, but scientists are reporting progress toward a new hormone therapy that could improve the outcomes of these surgeries. ...
Biochemistry
Nov 20, 2013
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Released en masse, sterile Mexican fruit flies can undermine a wild population of the fruit-damaging pests so that fewer applications of insecticide are needed. But the irradiation used to sterilize the flies weakens them, ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 4, 2012
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Frogs appear to be very sensitive to progestogens, a kind of pharmaceutical that is released into the environment. Female tadpoles that swim in water containing a specific progestogen, levonorgestrel, are subject to abnormal ...
Ecology
Feb 16, 2011
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Trophoblast stem cells (TSCs), cells found in the layer of peripheral embryonic stem cells from which the placenta is formed, are thought to exhibit "immune privilege" that aids cell survivability and is potentially beneficial ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 29, 2009
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