Engineered living-cell blood vessel provides new insights to progeria
New model reveals a unique role of the cells lining blood vessels in progeria, a rare accelerated-aging diseaseCredit: Progeria Research ...
Month: February 2020
Enjoying the View? How computer games can help evaluate landscapes
Geographers from Staffordshire University are stepping into the virtual world of computer games to develop exciting new ways of assessing ...
What decides the ferromagnetism in the non-encapsulated few-layer CrI3
Credit: ©Science China Press Since the discovery of two ferromagnetic (FM) atomically thin CrI3 and Cr2Ge2Te6 in 2017 (Nature 2017, ...
New robot does superior job sampling blood
First clinical trial of an automated blood drawing and testing deviceCredit: Unnati Chauhan In the future, robots could take blood ...
Toxic protein, linked to Alzheimer’s and neurodegenerative diseases, exposed in new detail
Columbia-led team harnesses two powerful technologies to identify promising targets for diagnosing and treating neurodegenerative diseasesCredit: Veronica Falconieri Hays and ...
How hereditary genetic testing results impact breast cancer treatment
A new study finds breast cancer patients with an inherited genetic mutation don't always get treatment that follows guidelinesCredit: University ...
Graphene mapping 50 times faster
Credit: ©Science China Press Graphene is always raising high expectations, as a strong, ultrathin, two-dimensional material that could also be ...
Hard times are coming: Brain tissue stiffness is crucial for neurogenesis
Credit: Helmholtz Zentrum München / Jacob Kjell In mammalian adult brains, neural stem cells are only present in few specific ...
Setting up fundamental bases for information metasurface
Credit: ©Science China Press When illuminated by electromagnetic waves, subwavelength-scale particles of metasurface can couple the incident energy to free ...
Trees in the Amazon are time capsules of human history, from culture to colonialism
Credit: Victor Caetano-Andrade As society has progressed, the annals of human history have been recorded through text, art, and oral ...
Controllable functional ferroelectric domain walls under piezoresponse microscope
Credit: ©Science China Press Ferroelectric materials possessing high photoelectric, piezoelectric and dielectric response are widely applied in industrial products, such ...
Recognise and control new variants of the deadly Ebola virus more quickly
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) The situation is extraordinary: there have only ever been four declarations ...
Lithuanian scientists contributed to creating the world record breaking tandem solar cell
29.15% efficiency is the new world record for a tandem solar element, developed by Lithuanian and German researchers; the material ...
Lasers etch a ‘perfect’ solar energy absorber
Credit: by Sohail A. Jalil, Bo Lai, Mohamed ElKabbash, Jihua Zhang, Erik M. Garcell, Subhash Singh & Chunlei Guo The ...
Unveiling how lymph nodes regulate immune response
The Hippo pathway keeps lymph nodes' development healthy. If impaired, lymph nodes become full of fat cells or fibrosis developsCredit: ...
MOF@hollow mesoporous carbon spheres as bifunctional electrocatalysts
Credit: ©Science China Press With the quick development of industrial technology, the energy crisis caused by the shortage of fossil ...
New robot will provide surgical assistance in uterine operations
The system would prevent one of the surgeons from having to hold the handler for several hoursCredit: UPV The project ...
Wasp nests used to date ancient Kimberley rock art
12,000-year-old Aboriginal rock art from the Kimberley region, Western Australia,Credit: Damien Finch Mud wasp nests have helped establish a date ...
Static electricity as strong as lightening can be saved in a battery
Credit: Dong Sung Kim(POSTECH) Static electricity shock which occurs more often in winter is unpleasant. When two different objects are ...
Researchers refute fifty-year old doctrine on cell membrane regulation
Credit: Saarland University/Thorsten Mohr The boundary between life and non-life is a remarkably narrow one. A central hallmark of life ...
