Drug candidate may recover vocal abilities lost to ADNP syndrome
Activity-dependent neuroprotective protein syndrome (ADNP syndrome) is a rare genetic condition that causes developmental delays, intellectual disability and autism spectrum ...
Month: November 2018
Bloomberg American Health Initiative releases special public health reports supplement
With U.S. life expectancy now on the decline for two consecutive years, the Bloomberg American Health Initiative is releasing a ...
Faecal transplant may protect premature babies from fatal bowel disease
Each year 5-10 per cent of all the children born in the world are born prematurely. At this stage, their ...
Making moves and memories, are they connected?
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine It is known that certain areas of the brain are responsible for certain functions of ...
Ashkenazi Jewish founder mutation identified for Leigh Syndrome
Credit: Marsha Barnett Over 30 years ago, Marsha and Allen Barnett lost their sons to a puzzling childhood disease that ...
Researchers to study drivers of asthma in Puerto Rico
Credit: National Jewish Health Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), National Jewish Health and Centro de Neumología ...
New website maps CA power plants, emissions, people
Credit: PSE Healthy Energy OAKLAND, CA - Which power plant in your region is the worst polluter and who lives ...
Kansas State University biologist studies trauma survival differences between men, women
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- A person's sex hormones may play a role in trauma survival, according to ...
Can artificial intelligence help victims of abuse to disclose traumatic testimony?
When children are victims of crimes, the legal testimony they provide is known as forensic interviews. However, since victims are ...
Scientists engineer a functional optical lens out of 2D materials
Credit: Liu et al., Nano Letters, 2018 November 13, 2018 In optics, the era of glass lenses may be waning. ...
NUS innovation opens doors to smaller, cheaper and long-lasting IoT sensors
Credit: National University of Singapore Researchers from the Green IC research group at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have ...
Chinese fusion tool pushes past 100 million degrees
Credit: EAST Team The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), nicknamed the "Chinese artificial sun", achieved an electron temperature of over ...
Southwest Research Institute’s Terrence Alger awarded for engine innovations
Credit: TAMEST Terrence F. Alger II, Ph.D., of the Southwest Research Institute is the recipient of the 2019 Edith and ...
Police officers ‘open up’ about body-worn cameras in a post-ferguson era
Credit: Florida Atlantic University The fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, generated political and ...
Quantum science turns social
Credit: Robert Heck, AU Researchers developed a versatile remote gaming interface that allowed external experts as well as hundreds of ...
Photo recognition that keeps personal interests private
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - From just a quick snapshot on a smartphone, image recognition technology can provide a ...
Physicists discover new way of resonance tuning for nonlinear optics
A research team from ITMO University and the Australian National University has discovered that different metasurfaces exhibit the same behavior ...
Towards a Unified Soil Mechanics Theory. The use of effective stresses in unsaturated soils
When Karl von Terzaghi applied the effective stress principle in the soil mechanics theory, the strength and volumetric behavior of ...
Salmon are shrinking and it shows in their genes
Male salmon are maturing earlier and becoming smaller, and it shows in their genes. This was the discovery of a ...
Next step on the path towards an efficient biofuel cell
Credit: RUB, Marquard Fuel cells that work with the enzyme hydrogenase are, in principle, just as efficient as those that ...
