Team discovers polymorph selection during crystal growth can be thermodynamically driven
Studying colloidal crystallization, Lehigh scientists show that kinetic effects may be unable to fully explain the appearance of structural transformations, ...
Month: September 2019
Researchers have identified areas of the retina that change in mild Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: Knowledge Technology Institute, UCM Researchers at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) have identified changes in retinal layer thickness, ...
Brain-inspired computing could tackle big problems in a small way
Credit: Jennifer McCann and Amritanand Sebastian, Penn State While computers have become smaller and more powerful and supercomputers and parallel ...
Multidrug resistance: Not as recent as we thought
Researchers from Osaka University find that a relatively ancient drug efflux pump in Haemophilus influenzae confers resistance to the same ...
B cells linked to immunotherapy for melanoma
Researchers find evidence that B cells may be more important in immunotherapy than previously thoughtCredit: Credit: Christine Wagner Researchers at ...
Scientists create a nanomaterial that is both twisted and untwisted at the same time
The material developed at University of Bath allows for incredibly sensitive detection of the direction molecules twistCredit: Ventsislav Valev and ...
How IL-6 allows the immune response to develop for a key cell, the T follicular helper
These preclinical findings may have therapeutic potential for autoimmune diseases like lupus.Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The body's immune response ...
Ancient Australia was home to strange marsupial giants, some weighing over 1,000 kg
Extinct palorchestid marsupials likely filled a niche no longer occupied in modern AustraliaCredit: Hazel Richards (2019) Palorchestid marsupials, an extinct ...
Same but different: unique cancer traits key to targeted therapies
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Melbourne researchers have discovered that the key to personalised therapies for some types of ...
Low sea-ice cover in the Arctic
Second-lowest September minimum since observations beganCredit: Graphic: meereisportal.de The sea-ice extent in the Arctic is nearing its annual minimum at ...
Slower growth in working memory linked to teen driving crashes
Credit: Copyright 2019 Walshe EA et al., JAMA Network Open Research into why adolescent drivers are involved in motor vehicle ...
Parasitology: Mother cells as organelle donors
Credit: Source: Dr. Javier Periz, University of Glasgow. Toxoplasma gondii, the unicellular causative agent of toxoplasmosis, reproduces itself in an ...
Children’s Tumor Foundation hosts NF Innovation Week in San Francisco
Researchers, clinicians, data scientists, patients and caregivers convene to fast-track cures for the rare disorder neurofibromatosis Neurofibromatosis (NF), a genetic ...
Tiny bubbles in our body could fight cancer better than chemo
EAST LANSING, Mich. - Healthy cells in our body release nano-sized bubbles that transfer genetic material such as DNA and ...
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