Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or primary cancer of the liver, is the fifth most common cancer worldwide. Despite the prevalence of this disease, until now there has been no effective, systemic treatment. Thanks to a team of CAS researchers, that may be about to change.
The BU Physics Department, in collaboration with the Graphene Research Centre of the National University of Singapore (NUS), plans to launch this fall an international and collaborative academic exchange on graphene.
On March 5 and 6, 2012, International Relations and Political Science faculty took part in an international conference on human security at BU. The focus was on human rights and security issues and the ways in which rights are seen as a legitimate part of the security discourse.
Astrophysicist Elizabeth Blanton led a team of researchers in the discovery of vast clouds of hot gas “sloshing” in Abell 2052, a galaxy cluster located about 480 million light years from Earth.
The Qatar Foundation International (QFI) has awarded the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature $75,000 to help fund graduate fellowships.
An international team of astronomers have detected ultraviolet (UV) emissions of neutral hydrogen within the Earth’s own galaxy, the Milky Way.
CAS researchers have shown that increasing the size and boldness of the font on Bingo cards can help seniors with Alzheimer’s disease improve their Bingo performance.
Professor of Psychology Michael Hasselmo was recently elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Over the past two decades, the increased ability to analyze relationships among neural structures has provided novel insights into brain function.
Boston University researchers, in a paper published in the journal Nature Chemistry [23 OCTOBER 2011 | DOI: 10.1038/NCHEM.1178], present a new approach to accessing new, biorelevant structures by “remodeling” natural products.