Dirty city air killed more than 1.8 million people globally in 2019
Cities worldwide are shrouded with air pollution – and it's killing people.
Environment
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Beijing's smog woes cast pall over 'green' Winter Olympics
Beijing's air pollution is far below acceptable World Health Organization levels with the Chinese capital a month away from hosting the Winter Olympics –- but environmental data shows its skies have improved dramatically ...
Environment
Jan 5, 2022
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Nanoparticle therapeutic enhances cancer immunotherapy
Researchers at Wake Forest School of Medicine have discovered that a nanoparticle therapeutic enhances cancer immunotherapy and is a possible new approach in treating malignant pleural effusion (MPE). MPE is the accumulation ...
Bio & Medicine
Dec 16, 2021
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Study links increasing air pollution to the rise of a type of lung cancer
An international team of scientists, led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has linked increased air pollution to an uptick in cases of lung adenocarcinoma (LADC) worldwide. The same study also ...
Environment
Nov 26, 2021
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New molecule targets, images and treats lung cancer tumors in mice
Lung cancer can be elusive to spot and difficult to treat because the markers for it are found in other tissues, too. Now, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a finely tuned molecular agent ...
Biochemistry
Oct 25, 2021
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Mechanisms behind intercellular communication in tumors decoded
All cells in a multicellular organism must be precisely coordinated in order for the organism to function correctly. This applies both to healthy tissue and also tumors. Communication between the cells is extremely important ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 12, 2021
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Global cancer risk from burning organic matter comes from unregulated chemicals
Whenever organic matter is burned, such as in a wildfire, a power plant, a car's exhaust, or in daily cooking, the combustion releases polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)—a class of pollutants that is known to cause ...
Environment
Sep 22, 2021
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U.S. asbestos sites made risky by some remediation strategies
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) largely remedies Superfund sites containing asbestos by capping them with soil to lock the buried toxin in place. But new research suggests that this may actually increase the likelihood ...
Environment
Apr 23, 2021
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Chemists develop tools that may help improve cancer diagnostics, therapeutics
Chemists developed a method to detect changes in proteins that may signal the early stages of cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes and other major diseases. Angewandte Chemie published the work, led by chemists at Emory University ...
Biochemistry
Apr 9, 2021
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Uncovering the structure and gating mechanism of a7 protein
UT Southwestern researchers have identified the structure of a key member of a family of proteins called nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in three different shapes. The work, published online today in Cell, could eventually ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 17, 2021
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