Open heart surgery outperforms stents in patients with multivessel disease
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery may be the best treatment option for most patients with more than one blocked heart artery.
Seeking better detection for chronic malaria
In people with chronic malaria, certain metabolic systems in the blood change to support a long-term host-parasite relationship, a finding that is key to eventually developing better detection, treatm..
The mechanism of action of an antitumor drug used for the treatment of glioblastoma
The antibody mAb806 is used to treat glioblastoma, although its mechanism of action has been unknown until now. The study paves the way to extend treatment with mAb806 to more types of tumors and to t..
Promising material could lead to faster, cheaper computer memory
Currently, information on a computer is encoded by magnetic fields, a process that requires substantial energy and generates waste heat. Researchers have confirmed that bismuth ferrite could store inf..
Drugs that block CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing identified
The discovery of the first small-molecule inhibitors of the Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) protein could enable more precise control over CRISPR-Cas9-based genome editing, researchers report.
A genomic tour-de-force reveals the last 5,000 years of horse history
Each year on the first Saturday in May, Thoroughbred horses reach speeds of over 40 miles per hour as they compete to win the Kentucky Derby. But the domestic horse wasn't always bred for speed. ..
Giant panda’s bamboo diet still looks surprisingly carnivorous
Giant pandas are unusual in being extremely specialized herbivores that feed almost exclusively on highly fibrous bamboo, despite belonging to a clade (Carnivora) of primarily flesh-eating carnivores…
What drives multiple female acorn woodpeckers to share a nest?
In some acorn woodpecker family groups, related females lay eggs in the same nest and raise the chicks cooperatively with one or more related males.
Exploding electrical wires underwater to understand shock waves
Shock wave studies allow researchers to achieve the warm dense matter that's found only in the extreme conditions around stars and created in the laboratory for inertial confinement fusion resear..
Pinpointing Gaia to map the Milky Way
This image, a composite of several observations captured by ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST), shows the ESA spacecraft Gaia as a faint trail of dots across the lower half of the star-filled field..