Researchers report for the first time that tumors stressed by cancer immunotherapy release their mitochondrial DNA into nearby immune cells, triggering a host alert system.
Daily Archives: August 24, 2017
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Coprolites are fossilized feces that give evidence of an organism’s behavior and often contain food residues, parasite remains and other fossils that provide clues to ancient paleoecological relations.
The US President, who began his political career by questioning the birth place of Mr Obama, who he claimed was born in Kenya, and not the United States, retweeted the controversial tweet on Tuesday. He has made no secret about how much he dislikes the country’s first African American president […]
Under current legislation, firms are able to send temporary workers from low-wage countries to richer nations without having to pay their local social charges. However, the French president is demanding that changes are made and is using fears about the possible collapse of the Brussels bloc to scare EU members […]
WASHINGTON — The United Nations Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development has selected Intelsat’s Chief Executive Stephen Spengler as a commissioner, the company announced today. The commission, formed in 2010 from a mix of public, private and academic organizations, advocates for broadband internet access as a means to boost global development. […]
Feel that nanopowerY.Zhang, A.Noy 2017 By Timothy Revell It sounds like a simple task: use ambient energy from your surroundings to do something handy, such as charge your iPod from the vibrations of your morning run. But few of the many energy-harvesting devices introduced over the past hundred years have […]
There’s an organism that will just love thisMatthieu Paley/National Geographic By Jop de Vrieze The microbes living in our gut could vary with the seasons, according to evidence from one of the few remaining groups of hunter-gatherers. Jeff Leach at the Human Food Project, a non-profit looking at the role of […]
Sen. Chuck Schumer called on President Donald Trump on Thursday to dissolve his controversial vote fraud commission, blasting it as a voter suppression tool pushing the agenda of the same white supremacists who violently protested in Charlottesville. “When the president began his ‘Election Integrity Commission,’ it raised a lot of […]