Household bleach inactivates chronic wasting disease prions
Strategy appears feasible for decontaminating hunting, meat processing equipmentCredit: Brent Race WHAT: A 5-minute soak in a 40% solution of ...
Month: October 2019
NASA selects Illinois professor for satellite mission concept study
Credit: University of Illinois Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Lara Waldrop, assistant professor electrical and computer engineering at the ...
Ingestible sensor allows patients to be independent but still supported during TB treatment
100% of patients in US, trial were cured and preferred the new technology with the potential to revolutionize the treatment ...
New metasurface design can control optical fields in three dimensions
Credit: Alan Zhan/University of Washington A team led by scientists at the University of Washington has designed and tested a ...
Impact of exosomal HIV-1 Tat expression on the human cellular proteome
The cover for issue 54 of Oncotarget features Figure 2, 'Comparative proteomic profiling of the peptides/proteins identified from 293T, IL16lamp2b ...
Study: Aggressive breast cancers store large amounts of energy, which enables it to spread
The finding suggests a potential target in the metabolism that could slow or prevent breast cancer metastasisCredit: University of Michigan ...
nTIDE September 2019 Jobs Report: Indicators level off for Americans with disabilities
Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire nTIDE Report featuring National Disability Institute's work on the end goal of disability ...
Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital recognized as thrombectomy-capable stroke center
Credit: Henry Ford Health System WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. – Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital is one of only two Michigan hospitals ...
A dusty lab in the sky
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Joe Nuth loves dust. Among astronomers, that puts him in a minority. "The traditional astronomers -- the people ...
Charlene Compher to receive 2019 Norma M. Lang Award for Scholarly Practice & Policy
Credit: Penn Nursing Charlene Compher, PhD, RD, CNSC, LDN, FADA, FASPEN, is the Shearer Endowed Term Chair in Healthy Community ...
Targeting certain rogue T cells prevents and reverses multiple sclerosis in mice
Findings may also apply to autoimmune arthritis and other forms of encephalomyelitisCredit: Lifei Hou/Boston Children's Hospital Multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune ...
NUS scientist designs ‘express courier service’ for immune cells
Novel technique could significantly enhance DNA-based cancer immunotherapyCredit: Melosh Lab Immunotherapy is a promising cancer treatment that uses genetically modified ...
The fast dance of electron spins
Chemists investigate the interactions of metal complexes and lightCredit: © Sebastian Mai When a molecule is hit by light, in ...
Graphene turns 15 on track to deliver on its promises
The Graphene Flagship analyses the current graphene landscape and market forecast for graphene over the following decadeCredit: Image: Irina Grigorieva, ...
Researchers receive $7.8 million to establish rare disease network for myasthenia gravis
This is the first large, organized effort to search for improvements in myasthenia gravis, in not only research and treatment, ...
Researchers find antibiotic resistant genes prevalent in groundwater
Scholars warn attention needed to make wastewater potable and ensure public safety nationwide against emerging threat of antibiotic resistanceCredit: Adam ...
New fluorescence method reveals signatures of individual microbes
Researchers from University of Tsukuba develop a new method that reveals the unique signatures of individual cells in mixtures of ...
NIH funding bolsters rare diseases research collaborations
New grants aimed at better understanding diseases, moving potential treatments closer to the clinicCredit: Xiangyang Zhang, Ph.D., The George Washington ...
More energy means more effects — in proton collisions
Credit: IFJ PAN, P. Kotko The higher the collision energy of particles, the more interesting the physics. Scientists from the ...
A fortress of ice and snow
MOSAiC expedition begins its ice drift on a floe at 85 degrees north and 137 degrees eastCredit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Esther ...
