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Robot suit helps paraplegic patients
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Tailor-made prosthetic liners could help more amputees walk again
Researchers at the University of Bath have developed a new way of designing and manufacturing bespoke prosthetic liners, in less than a dayCredit: University of Bath Researchers at the University of Bath have developed a new way of designing and manufacturing bespoke prosthetic liners, in less than a day. This potentially life-changing project…
Read More...Study: Phenols in cocoa bean shells may reverse obesity-related problems in mouse cells
Credit: Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Scientists may have discovered more reasons to love chocolate. A new study by researchers at the University of Illinois suggests that three of the phenolic compounds in cocoa bean…
Do ice cores help to unravel the clouds of climate history?
International team measures ice nuclei from Arctic clouds of the past 500 years for the first timeCredit: Photo: Heike Wex, TROPOS Leipzig/Copenhagen/Villigen/Beijing. For the first time, an international research team led by…
Famed oceanographer Walter Munk honored with new award for students
Alfredo Giron, Ph.D., is first recipient of the award presented by the Marine Technology Society and the Walter Munk Foundation for the OceansCredit: Marine Technology Society This week at the MTS-OES OCEANS Marseille conference,…
NRL, Southwest Research Institute to add PUNCH to NASA’s solar mission
Credit: Graphic courtesy of PUNCH Team/Southwest Research Institute WASHINGTON - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers partnered with Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to shine a light on the impact of the solar atmosphere…
Animals may have more than one means of surviving hypoxia
Credit: Allie Graham and Jason Presnell, OSU College of Science CORVALLIS, Ore. - A tidepool crustacean's ability to survive oxygen deprivation though it lacks a key set of genes raises the possibility that animals might have more…
Epilepsy and sudden death linked to bad gene
The same gene mutation causes both severe epilepsy and breathing irregularitiesCredit: Dan Mulkey and Virge Kask, University of Connecticut. In sudden death in epilepsy, people stop breathing for no apparent reason and die. Now, a…
Sugars that coat proteins are a possible drug target for pancreatitis
Credit: Tuveson lab/CSHL 2019 Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Pancreatitis is an inflammation of the pancreas that accounts for 275,000 hospitalizations in the United States annually. Patients who suffer from hereditary pancreatitis have…
Largest study of CTE finds it in 6% of subjects
Interestingly, the traumatic brain disease is identified in both athletes and non-athletes.Credit: UT Health San Antonio SAN ANTONIO -- Nearly 6% of athletes and non-athletes were found to have the neurodegenerative disorder…
How bacteria kill host cells from the inside
Credit: Anne Blanc-Potard A bacterial pathogen that typically multiplies outside of host cells can enter and induce the destruction of cells called macrophages, according to a study published June 20 in the open-access journal PLOS…
One third of Cambodians infected with threadworm, study finds
Credit: CDC, US Federal Government public domain Strongyloides stercoralis is a soil-transmitted threadworm that is endemic in many tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Now, researchers reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical…
Cereal grains scientists fight hidden hunger with new approach
Credit: N. Palacios and V. Govindan After a prolonged decline, global hunger is on the rise--affecting more than 820 million individuals in 2017. Additionally, more than 2 billion people suffer from "hidden hunger," which occurs…
Crystal with a twist: Scientists grow spiraling new material
Helical crystal could yield unexpected properties, like superconductivityCredit: UC Berkeley image by Yin Liu With a simple twist of the fingers, one can create a beautiful spiral from a deck of cards. In the same way,…
In Huntington’s disease, traffic jams in the cell’s control center kill brain…
Credit: Credit: Courtesy of Cell Press, Neuron April 5, 2017 Working with mouse, fly and human cells and tissue,…